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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

What we can do with App-V scripting


When we think about scripting within App-V, we will be thinking about OSD scripting. As we know, the OSD file represents, in a virtual application, all the information that is necessary to launch it—package identifier, server and port name used to stream the application, dependencies set in Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC), the shortcuts, and file associations that will be applied in clients.

The possibilities of what we can do in this scripting scenario are many. We can handle several aspects of the virtual environment, making it possible to edit some of its components without resequencing the application; or, we can interact outside the "bubble" by starting a service prior to launching an application.

Introducing OSD scripting

In this chapter, we will take a closer look at a powerful method App-V provides administrators to customize and optimize their virtual environment, adding some interesting options, such as, checking for a prerequisite before launching...