{"id":9885,"date":"2009-09-17T20:50:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9885"},"modified":"2009-09-17T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"act-5-5-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9885","title":{"rendered":"ACT 5.5 Tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;FamilyID=53050cca-65aa-41e9-b9c8-8024e85bc5bb#tm\">released<\/a> a set of tutorials and videos to show you the ropes of using the Application Compatibility Toolkit.\u00a0 When moving from a legacy OS like XP to Windows 7 then application compatibility is your big worry.\u00a0 You\u2019ve a few alternatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the vendor to upgrade the app: *ROTFLMAO* Yeah, like they\u2019ll do that!<\/li>\n<li>Side by side legacy machine: Yuk!<\/li>\n<li>Legacy OS terminal servers: Double yuk!<\/li>\n<li>XP Mode: Fine for small organisations.<\/li>\n<li>XP Mode with MED-V management: The choice for larger organisations that can afford Software Assurance and the MDOP licensing<\/li>\n<li>Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ACT allows you to create \u201cshims\u201d to simulate your legacy OS.\u00a0 This fools the application into working.\u00a0 There\u2019s a huge library of these for applications out there that you can reuse.\u00a0 You can also create your own for apps not already in the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released a set of tutorials and videos to show you the ropes of using the Application Compatibility Toolkit.\u00a0 When moving from a legacy OS like XP to Windows 7 then application compatibility is your big worry.\u00a0 You\u2019ve a few alternatives: Get the vendor to upgrade the app: *ROTFLMAO* Yeah, like they\u2019ll do that! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACT 5.5 Tutorials&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}