When using Group Policy to deploy App-V 5 settings, you will find that laptops or PCs that are running off batteries do not poll the App-V Publishing server for new applications. This common issue is caused by the Scheduled Task (which is created by Group Policy) not being set to run if the PC is not on AC power. A simple solution to this issue is to create your own Scheduled Task and deploy it through Group Policy client-side extensions.
To complete these steps, you will need a working App-V infrastructure and a laptop or a PC running Windows 8.1 with the App-V client installed.
The following list shows you the high-level steps involved in this recipe and the tasks required to complete this recipe (all of the actions in this recipe will take place on the server DC.):
Create a Group Policy object for your Scheduled Task
The implementation of the preceding task is as follows:
On the server
DC, launch the Group Policy Management...