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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

By : Martyn Coupland
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

By: Martyn Coupland

Overview of this book

If you are an experienced Configuration Manager administrator looking to advance your career or get more from your current environment, then this book is ideal for you. Prior experience of deploying and managing a Configuration Manager site would be helpful in following the examples throughout this book.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deploying virtual applications


We can also use Configuration Manager to deploy virtual applications that have been sequenced using Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). The benefits of using Configuration Manager to deploy your App-V sequences are that you do not have to deploy additional server infrastructure to manage the virtual applications.

All that is required is that the App-V client, which is part of the software assurance licensing, be deployed to the machines where you want to run App-V sequences and that the Configuration Manager client is also installed on the same machines.

The process is simple. We create an application that is an App-V type and select the appropriate version of the application, which we used to sequence our application.

Enter the UNC path to the App-V sequence file (.appv extension). This will be used to create the application and extract the properties from the sequence. You can go through and edit any properties you wish to add additionally or change...