A warm welcome to all who are joining us for this March edition of the Readiness newsletter. For those who would like to know about more about Readiness, we have this introductory video.
What’s happening at Readiness?
This marks another big month for Readiness with our new LiquidWare assessment reports (for FlexApp suitability). This is a great new feature and we have found working with the LiquidWare team a delight. Especially given how well their technology works on Windows platforms. Internal updates include our new “branded” experience for each partner. Following a partner specific URL allows for a consistent, branded experience for all projects – this includes common packaging standards, automated QA, and publishing commands. This makes things even quicker for our partners to start-up new projects.
Welcome to the team: Tony Lewis
We welcome our newest member to the Readiness team: Tony Lewis. Tony has worked with most of the Readiness team members over the past 25 years of his packaging career. Tony will join Readiness as Lead Technical Trainer and will help with both training our partners and ensuring that our development team is on the right track – at least as far application packaging is concerned. You can find out more about Tony on his LinkedIn page.
Industry news
There has been a major Microsoft Windows 11 update with the release 22H2. This is a big update to last years release of Windows 11 and includes update to the following features:
- Notifications with: Control restart notifications
- New Themes with Education themes for Windows 11
- Updated Accessibility information for IT professionals
- A new start menu layout: Supported configuration service provider (CSP) policies for Windows 11 Start menu
As part of any upgrade to a Microsoft Desktop platform, there are always features that are removed or deprecated (removed from official Microsoft support). Some of the more common features removed from Windows now include:
Windows deployment services has been partially deprecated. You can read more about this feature change here. Of course, the only way to ensure that your application portfolio is completely up to date, is a complete application assessment from Readiness.
Our latest Readiness blog postings:
- We are now posting quite regularly on our Application Readiness blog. Here are a few links to our most recent posting:
- Application Confidence – Automated Assessment with Readiness
- Readiness and VMWare: Technology Alliance Partner
- Liquidware: Application Compatibility Matrix
- Three zero-days require urgent attention for Windows, Exchange
- February Testing Guidance for Patch Tuesday
You can also find all of the Readiness blog posting here and Greg’s ComputerWorld Patch Tuesday postings here.
If you are interested in finding more about application packaging, conversion and automated testing, feel free to contact us.
