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Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide

By : Augusto Alvarez
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Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide

By: Augusto Alvarez

Overview of this book

Microsoft's Application Virtualization technology has been emerging as one of the main platforms in application virtualization. This is mainly because more and more organizations are thinking about application virtualization as a valid implementation; also because App-V represents probably the most attractive solution. App-V introduces a new and efficient way to improve operating systems and application life cycles in organizations. However, if we want to maximize our investment we must learn that every scenario and application differs from another, as does complexity.With Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide administrators will find detailed topics for understanding App-V components, architecture and implementation models; as well as step-by-step guidance to master App-V processes. There is also guidance on integrating App-V with other robust platforms like VDI, SCCM 2012 and even virtualizing server applications. Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide will start by giving readers the means to discover unfamiliar topics in App-V, as well as understanding App-V's architecture. By doing so, it will provide the baseline needed before shifting to advanced topics in App-V, like complex scenarios for sequencing and deploying applications. The book details scripting within App-V, as well as handling the platform using the command line; there is a complete review of troubleshooting installations, sequencing and deploying applications. Integration is another key component we will cover by introducing App-V in VDI and SCCM 2012. Server applications are not forgotten with Server App-V, using this book the reader will have a detailed understanding, with how-to steps to virtualize server applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Troubleshooting application sequencing/launching


There are several scenarios for which we might need a little help when we are trying to sequence an application. We've learnt earlier, in Chapter 2, Sequencing in Complex Environments, about complex and even unsupported applications that require some tweaking.

In those cases, when we need some deep troubleshooting to make our application work, we can use Microsoft Sysinternal's Process Monitor.

We are going to focus, in this section, on how to use Process Monitor for troubleshooting virtual applications, but it is not necessary for us to do this with the sequencing process. There are some cases for which we will not need to resequence the application, after this troubleshooting.

Using Process Monitor for troubleshooting

Process Monitor is probably the best collection tool for monitoring process activity in an operating system; it is not used only by IT admins; Microsoft Support engineers also work with this tool in order to find the root cause...