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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

Managing shortcuts


On occasion, the administrator may wish to add or remove shortcuts to applications within a package; for example, the default Audacity installer generates shortcuts on both the desktop and the Start menu even though only one shortcut is required by the end user. Through the App-V Management Console, these extra shortcuts can be deleted or additional ones can be created.

Getting ready

To complete these steps, you will need to have completed the first two recipes in this chapter.

How to do it...

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 a domain-joined Windows 8.1 computer):

  • Log in to the App-V Management Console.

  • Delete the Audacity desktop shortcut.

  • Add an additional shortcut to the Audacity application in the Start menu.

The implementation of the preceding tasks is as follows:

  1. On your Windows 8.1 computer, log in to the App-V Management Console ...