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Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook

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Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Accessing the management console


The App-V Management Console is hosted on the App-V Management server. The console is based on Microsoft Silverlight, and as such, can be accessed only on Windows PCs from Internet Explorer with the Silverlight 5 plugin installed.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have completed the steps in the previous recipe and have set up an App-V Management server with the Publishing role included. All of the actions in this task will be conducted on a domain-joined Windows 8.1 client.

How to do it...

The following list shows you the fundamental steps involved in this recipe and the tasks required to complete the recipe:

  • Install the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight

  • Browse to the web-based management console and log in

The implementation of the preceding steps is as follows:

  1. On your Windows 8.1 client, open Internet Explorer and browse to http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight. Then, click on the Install Silverlight button.

  2. Allow the download to complete and then launch the Install Silverlight application and click on Install now to begin the installation. Close any open Internet Explorer windows.

  3. Open Internet Explorer and browse to http://appv1.demo.org:440/Console.html.

  4. A dialogue box will prompt you to log in with your credentials. Log in with the Sam Adams account created earlier, which is part of the App-V Administrators security group.

  5. Once logged in, you will be presented with the Packages screen of the console. Note that the name of the account is listed in the top-right hand corner and that you can check the version number of the console by clicking on the About option.