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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

Precaching applications in the local store


As an alternative to using the Shared Content Store mode, applications can be forced to be cached within the local store on your RDS session hosts. This would be advantageous in scenarios where the bandwidth from a central high speed storage device is more expensive than providing dedicated storage to the RDS session hosts.

Getting ready

To complete these tasks, you will need to complete the recipes in the first four chapters and deploy a Remote Desktop Services environment (on the server RDS).

How to do it…

The following list shows you the high-level tasks involved in this recipe and the tasks required to complete the recipe (all of the actions in this recipe will take place on the server DC):

  • Create a group policy object for the server RDS.

  • Enable background application caching within that policy.

The implementation of the preceding tasks is as follows:

  1. On the server DC, load the Group Policy Management console.

  2. Expand the tree structure to display Remote...