App Management on Access IT Automation

Application Whitelisting as Part of your Automated Packaging Workflow

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0100

In a large corporate environment, the end-users do not usually have the rights to install just any application they download from the internet themselves.

But how do you decide which applications are allowed to be installed and run and which aren’t? Today, I want to walk you through the application whitelisting basics, the most common ways enterprises whitelist their apps, as well as how you can increase your security by adding digital signatures to your applications as part of your automated packaging process.

How To Stop Your Product Owners From Complaining About App Packaging Documentation

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Let’s just be honest for a second and come right out with it: No one likes to create app packaging documentation.

Creating the documentation is probably the most boring part of app packaging an application! So oftentimes, product owners skip through the steps half-heartedly, rushing to get through it as fast as they can, or ignore it altogether. And who can blame them? It’s hours of tedious work and it’s a pain in the neck.

Business As Usual Application Management Mistakes

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Don’t make these 5 crucial mistakes that could stall your BaU application management process!

Last week, we published an interactive assessment called “Can We Guess Your Risk Level For Adopting Business-as-Usual?” from an application management perspective. Basically, we asked 12 questions and you pick the answer that best fits. At the end, we can predict how risky it will be to adopt this new IT management approach given your current application estate and management process, and we map out what it would take to take it to the next level. If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend that you give it a go!

How To Automate Your App Certification Process To Streamline Your Windows 10 Deployment

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0100

I can hardly believe that it has been almost two years since Windows 10 was officially released!

Most enterprises have finished evaluating the new operating system and kicked off their migration efforts by now. But unlike previous Windows deployments where organizations had three to four years before the next upgrade cycle was due, Windows 10 (a.k.a. Windows-as-a-Service) churns out two new significant feature upgrades a year. Since its debut, Windows 10 has seen three new versions and another one is just a few months away.

How To Set Up Your App Packaging & Testing Structure

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Isn’t it time to get your app packaging and testing structure right?

Check out our conclusive list below of how you can structure your app packaging and testing structure.

Optimal Windows-as-a-Service Management Tool Stack

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Time for an upgrade management system that works for you.

Efficiently managing Windows-as-a-Service upgrades is difficult. It’s for a good reason.

Business Applications Layer
Applications Packaging Mechanism: need to be packaged in a certain format depending on what you want your end result to be.
Testing Mechanism: to be able to test various product types and versions of those products.
Deployment Mechanism: The delivery system of how you’re going to deliver those applications, e.g., Active Directory groups with SCCM top sequences or it could be your own deployment system.
Access Agent: manage and understand every version of the build that’s out there and reboot all the machines and quick start an Orchestrator
Underlying infrastructures around virtual machine technology ((combination of machines in the Citrix environment, an VMWare environment or an Azure Hyper-V Microsoft environment) = mechanism to build physical machines, e.g., virtual machines, laptops, hosted desktops

On each side: