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(Source: Deployment Options for Microsoft Office 2010)

Overview

Administrators can use Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) as part of a deployment option to allow users to run Office 2010 applications on their workstations. App-V streams applications on demand to the workstation, from which the application is run. However, the application is not installed on the workstation.

Advantages

• Centralizes management of applications, such as controlling application usage and license metering, which can help administrators ensure compliance.
• Supports end-user roaming experience and provides applications to end users quickly.
• Allows multiple versions of Office to run on the workstation and can run both virtual applications and installed applications.
• Office 2010 runs in an isolated virtual environment, which can enable previously incompatible applications to run on the same workstation.
• Uses available workstation processing power to run applications.

Limitations

• Requires supporting infrastructure and resources for App-V, which will vary depending on the infrastructure deployment option selection.
• Network bandwidth availability for streaming application to end-user device.
• Integration into existing infrastructure, such as patch management process.

Recommendations

• When application compatibility, such as running multiple versions of Office 2010, is required and you want to use the processing power of the workstation to run the applications, then application virtualization is a good solution.
• When you want to use the existing processing power of the workstation to run the application, then application virtualization is a good solution, as opposed to the use of presentation virtualization, where the running of the application takes place on the servers.
• When scalability is needed for the distribution of the virtualized application to many hundreds of computers and in different locations, such as remote offices, we recommend  use of change and configuration management software, such as Microsoft
• System Center Configuration Manager, as the delivery mechanism.
  Ensure that redundancy is in place for application virtualization infrastructure to avoid having a single point of failure.

Deployment Help & Tools

• Microsoft Application Virtualization
• Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

Possibly related:

• Deploying Office 2010 with Presentation Virtualisation (a.k.a. Terminal Services)
• Deploying Office 2010 with Manageability Tools
• Deploying Office 2010 via Group Policy & Scripts
• Deploying Office 2010 from a Network Share
• Office 2010 – Deployment Options