Choosing the Best Tool
You can use four primary tools to mitigate application-compatibility issues: Program Compatibility Assistant, Program Compatibility Wizard, ACT, and application virtualization. The following sections describe each tool and when using it is appropriate versus using other tools or technologies.
The first two tools provide approaches for users and one-off support issues but are not for use in a large-scale deployment. The remainder of this chapter focuses on using ACT to inventory, analyze, and mitigate compatibility issues, because this is the tool that organizations primarily use in large-scale deployment.
Program Compatibility Assistant
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