M.A.D. Day
The conference on App-V, MSIX, App Attach and FSLogix: one day, hands-on talks, vendors and practitioners in one place. Talks from past editions are on YouTube.
M.A.D. Day ›Modern Application Deployment (M.A.D.)
Applications and policies for the digital workplace. From one portal.
NickIT ZeroPortal delivers App-V, MSIX and App Attach packages to workstations, terminal servers and VDI and enforces policies: drives, printers, shortcuts, desktop, scripts. Runs on your Windows Server, in your own data centre or in the cloud of your choice, highly available and under your control.
App-V publishing with the Microsoft App-V client is free of charge. For the ZeroPortal agent, 30 free licences are included with every installation.
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One portal instead of three tools
App-V, MSIX and App Attach in one catalogue, with one permission model and one agent on the device. MSIX and App Attach are assigned to AD groups, AD accounts, portal groups and enrolled devices, App-V to AD groups.
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The modern digital workplace. At an unbeatable price.
Drives, printers, shortcuts, desktop, scripts, RDS and VDI lockdown as policy sets with scope and priority, with revisions per policy. Pro licence from 5 € per user per year, net, tiered by size. App-V publishing is free.
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Runs where you want it
Windows Server in your own data centre or in Azure, AWS and any other cloud. MariaDB in the current LTS series, one MSI, one wizard. A second node with replication for high availability. No cloud service required, no data leaves your control, continuously updated.
What ZeroPortal does
Everything between the package and the workplace: catalogue, entitlement, delivery, policy, operations.
App-V publishing free
Replacement for the Microsoft App-V Publishing Server. Packages, connection groups, reporting, entitlement by AD group. Free with the Microsoft App-V client, which stays exactly as it is.
More ›MSIX and App Attach publishing
The same route as App-V: vendor packages, Store packages fetched with winget download and applications you repackaged yourself, for example with the MSIX Packaging Tool, dependencies and licences included. The portal builds App Attach images itself; the policy decides the delivery format.
Digital Workplace policies
Drives, printers, shortcuts, desktop, scripts, lockdown, delivery rules and agent configuration as policy sets. Import from Group Policy Preferences.
More ›The agent
Windows service with tray icon, fully controlled by group policy (ADMX). Syncs in machine and user context, reports progress and fails over to another server on its own. No load balancer, no inbound port.
More ›Identity and permissions
Single sign-on with the Windows account (SSO), permissions for AD groups, portal groups and internal accounts. Roles per module, API keys, enrollment for devices without a domain, audit log.
More ›Highly available and scriptable
Primary and replica with MariaDB replication, set up by a wizard. The agent handles failover, no load balancer needed. 88 PowerShell cmdlets, REST API, backup and restore of the configuration.
More ›What it looks like
A look at the portal and the agent. Swipe or use the arrows.
Productive in three steps
The quickstart walks through the installation, the Quick Admin Guide through the first workstation. Both with screenshots.
Install the server
MariaDB, one MSI, one wizard with five steps: certificate, endpoint, administrators, database, service. The portal is up after 30 minutes.
Connect the clients
Agent MSI from the portal's download centre, portal address via group policy using the ADMX template. The agent reports in on its own.
Entitle and set policies
Read packages from the share, entitle groups, activate policy sets with a scope. The next sync delivers.
Who it is for
App-V shops
The Microsoft App-V Publishing Server is going away. ZeroPortal takes over packages, connection groups and reporting without changing anything on the clients. Migration scripts read your existing server.
Terminal servers, AVD and VDI
MSIX and App Attach with session awareness: nothing is retracted while an application is running. Delivery format per policy, lockdown templates for RDS and VDI.
A digital workplace without GPO sprawl
Drives, printers, desktop, scripts and restrictions as policy sets with clear scopes. Existing Group Policy Preferences are imported, not retyped.
88PowerShell cmdlets
30free licences, never expire
10scope filters
30 minto a running portal
Modern Application Deployment. And the community around it.
Nick Informationstechnik hosts the M.A.D. Day, wrote the MSIX book and sends the M.A.D. newsletter. ZeroPortal is the software from the same workshop.
The MSIX book
470 pages of practice by Andreas Nick: MSIX in Windows, building packages and fixing them with the Package Support Framework, deployment with PowerShell, troubleshooting. For administrators, packagers and consultants. German.
M.A.D. newsletter
Dates, talks and news on Modern Application Deployment, a few times a year, in German. The signup is at the bottom of every page and on the M.A.D. page.
Subscribe ›Trying it costs nothing
Download the server MSI, open the quickstart, and the portal runs within half an hour. App-V publishing with the Microsoft App-V client stays free for good, 30 free agent licences are included.