How should a hosted shared environment be implemented to allow user-installed applications?

Adding users to the Local Administrators group in a shared environment poses a significant security risk and allows changes that would affect all other users on the shared server.

Personal vDisk (PvD) is a technology designed for dedicated VDI desktops to persist user changes, not for managing user-installed applications in a multi-user hosted shared environment.

Adding users to the Remote Desktop Users Group grants permission to connect via RDP but does not provide the necessary privileges or isolation to install applications on a shared system.

In a hosted shared environment, direct user application installation is problematic as it impacts all users. Application virtualization technologies like Microsoft App-V allow applications to be streamed and run in an isolated virtual environment, giving users the perception of installing applications without modifying the underlying shared operating system.