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Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide

By : Augusto Alvarez
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Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide

By: Augusto Alvarez

Overview of this book

Microsoft's Application Virtualization technology has been emerging as one of the main platforms in application virtualization. This is mainly because more and more organizations are thinking about application virtualization as a valid implementation; also because App-V represents probably the most attractive solution. App-V introduces a new and efficient way to improve operating systems and application life cycles in organizations. However, if we want to maximize our investment we must learn that every scenario and application differs from another, as does complexity.With Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide administrators will find detailed topics for understanding App-V components, architecture and implementation models; as well as step-by-step guidance to master App-V processes. There is also guidance on integrating App-V with other robust platforms like VDI, SCCM 2012 and even virtualizing server applications. Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide will start by giving readers the means to discover unfamiliar topics in App-V, as well as understanding App-V's architecture. By doing so, it will provide the baseline needed before shifting to advanced topics in App-V, like complex scenarios for sequencing and deploying applications. The book details scripting within App-V, as well as handling the platform using the command line; there is a complete review of troubleshooting installations, sequencing and deploying applications. Integration is another key component we will cover by introducing App-V in VDI and SCCM 2012. Server applications are not forgotten with Server App-V, using this book the reader will have a detailed understanding, with how-to steps to virtualize server applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating and handling package accelerators


One of the newest features in App-V 4.6 SP1 is the package accelerator, which appeared in order to help the App-V community share knowledge and common best practices for applications sequencing.

What is a package accelerator?

Package accelerators represent a fast way to accomplish the sequencing of any given application by using the configuration files saved previously by a sequencer professional. These files can be used to rapidly create a new version of the sequenced application, saving a lot of time in the customization of this app.

Before package accelerators, sequencing a particular (most likely, complex) application and sharing that knowledge with the community implied that we write down that process in a detailed way, called an App-V recipe. These recipes are usually found in Microsoft TechNet and other App-V community forums.

A package accelerator is nothing more than a CAB file containing the following files:

  • SPRJ

  • OSD

  • Manifest file for this particular...