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Today’s FAQ has been written by Justin Zarb, all around good guy and a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft in the UK. You can read more App-V articles written by Justin at his blog: http://appvguy.com/ This terminology is a little confusing. The "Active" was added in 4.x and referred to the fact that we could [...]
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There are several deployment methods available for App-V and a number of ways to stream packages to clients – RTSP, HTTP, SMB and local disk. When creating an App-V package, the Sequencer provides protocol options (RTSPS, RTSP, FILE, HTTP and HTTPS), server hostname, port number and a folder path which are added to the generated [...]
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There are several methods that you can use to deliver App-V packages in your environment – you could even combine the methods depending on your requirements. I will summarise the methods here and give you some links to existing Microsoft articles and white papers and some excellent blog posts that discuss these options in detail: [...]
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“Does App-V replace Citrix XenApp?” or “Is App-V a Citrix killer?” I’m surprised that this one keeps coming up although I’ve been hearing it for years. People make assumptions about the ability to stream applications to end-points with App-V and confuse this with remote presentation of applications. See the comments on this post as an [...]
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No, unfortunately you cannot use App-V to virtualise Internet Explorer today. Other application virtualisation solutions such as VMware ThinApp, Symantec Workspace Virtualization, and InstallFree Bridge can virtualise Internet Explorer, so why can’t App-V? There’s no technical reason why App-V can’t virtualise Internet Explorer; however at this time Microsoft’s stance on running multiple versions of Internet [...]
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Note: while you can manage the App-V with Group Policy, I recommend that you first create a baseline configuration via a custom App-V Client installer, and then use Group Policy to either change or enforce your defaults. This will ensure that the client is configured correctly at install time without having to wait for Group [...]
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Stand-alone mode in App-V is useful where you are deploying App-V applications via Group Policy or a 3rd party ESD (using the MSI file), or you have the App-V packages available on a file share and import them with the SFTMIME command. There are a couple of properties that you’ll need to set to allow [...]
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TechNet has the documentation you need for creating a silent or unattended installation of the App-V client for deployment to existing workstations or during your base image build. Before embarking on customising the install, I usually recommend first understanding how to perform a manual installation of the App-V Client. There are two ways to deploy [...]
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