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App-V 4.6 to 5.0 - Comparison Cheat Sheet
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7 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Hello People! I was just gathering together a collection of key differences between App-V 4.6 and 5.0 and thought I would share... App-V 4.6 App-V 5.0 Mount drive (Q:) on sequencer and client No mount drive on...
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Introducing Shared Content Store in App-V 5.0 (Goodbye Read Only Shared Cache!)
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6 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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I think it would be safe to say that Shared Cache in App-V 4.6 was not the most popular solution for reducing the impact of App-V cache on client machines. From VDI to RDS, people didn’t want to duplicate the potentially huge sftfs.fsd cache file...
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Installing the App-V 5.0 Client and configuring it with a Publishing Server
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6 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Hello People, just a quick reference on how to setup the App-V client and quickly configure it to talk to a Publishing Server First of all the hardware and software requirements: Hardware Requirements Processor— 1 GHz or faster 32-bit ...
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Introducing Virtual Application Extensions in App-V 5.0
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7 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Hi Everyone! So you may have heard rumours about App-V 5.0 applications being able to have less isolation and more entry points to the base OS. Well, that’s true, it’s all because of a new feature called Virtual Application Extensions....
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App-V 5.0 Standalone Mode - Adding and Publishing a Package
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2 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Deploying a package in standalone mode in App-V 5.0 is really re ally simple! I recommend having a standalone client somewhere to everyone I talk to regardless of infrastructure choices because it is the easiest way to quickly test a package before deploying...
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SCCM 2012 SP1 and App-V 5.0 Documentation
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29 days ago
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Thamim Karim
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Hi People! Separate to some of the documentation on App-V 5.0 we can find at the download centre, we also have a brilliant piece of documentation stored separately on "Integrating Virtual Application Management with App-V 5 and Configuration Manager...
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Breaking into the virtual environment in App-V 5.0
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5 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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In App-V 4.6 we used to use the command line Sfttray /exe to open a process inside the virtual environment of an App-V Package, a lot of people referred to this as “breaking into the bubble”. As you would of heard, our trusty sfttray commands...
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App-V 5.0 OS Integration - Part 1 - Package Format
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2 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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In this series of posts I am going to take you behind the scenes of how our packages integrate with our operating system in App-V 5.0. The most logical place to start is with the package itself and understanding what is output by our Sequencer. ...
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App-V 5.0 OS Integration - Part 2 - File System Cache
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1 month ago
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Thamim Karim
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Following on from my post App-V 5.0 OS Integration - Part 1 - Package Format where we talked about how a App-V 5.0 package is made up, now we can move on to look at how this package is reflected on your client operating system after the package has been...
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App-V 5.0 SP1 now available as part of MDOP 2013
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1 month ago
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Thamim Karim
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Not a huge raft of changes in terms of SP1 for App-V 5.0 apart from much better language support and also the foundations for support of Office 2010, more details below! Download MDOP 2013 to get this latest release. About App-V 5.0 SP1 How to...
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Enabling computer based targeting in App-V 5.0
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3 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Happy New Year! I hope you all had a perfect holiday season, I definitely did but now I think it's time for my first post of 2013.... Now this is something that I have hardly heard anyone really talk about with App-V 5.0; the fact that we can now target...
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Feature Block 0 - The Publishing Feature Block
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2 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Following on from my post around “ App-V Package Streaming Optimisation ” let’s talk more about the Publishing Feature Block. In App-V 4.x if we chose to optimise our package we would end up with a FB1 (Primary Feature Block) and...
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Connection Groups - DSC improved for App-V 5.0
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3 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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App-V 5.0 Connection Groups build on the success of Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) in App-V 4.x and presents a much more manageable experience. Let’s take an example, below I have published NetBeans, it’s an IDE application which relies...
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App-V 5.0 RDS Client - Where can I find it!?
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5 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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This is a question I am often being asked as some people are expecting to find this within the MDOP download, in which you will only find the desktop client. To get the App-V RDS client you need to go to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Centre ...
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Connection Group Conflicts in App-V 5.0
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3 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Connection Groups are proving a really popular feature in App-V 5.0, however how do we handle the situation whereby one application is the member of more than one connection group and both are published to the same AD group? Let’s take this following...
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App-V 5.0 OS Integration - Part 3 – Registry
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1 month ago
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Thamim Karim
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Now we understand the package format and client file system for App-V 5.0, let’s take a look out how the registry looks in terms of OS integration. As mentioned in Part 1 of this blog series, within the .appv package we can see a registry.dat...
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App-V 4.6 Ramp Up Guide
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7 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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With App-V 5.0 on the horizon, I think it’s a great time to look back and reflect on the crazy amounts of fun we have had with App-V 4.5 and 4.6 over the years. For me personally it has been a great learning experience working with App-V since I...
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App Paths – A Virtual Application Extension in App-V 5.0
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5 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Wassup App-V heads! I recently published an Introduction to Virtual Application Extensions in App-V 5.0 blog post in which I talked about how virtual applications in App-V 5.0 have a much tighter synergy with the base platform and in some ways are...
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App-V 5.0 RTM now released!
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6 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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BIG NEWS! App-V 5.0 has just been made publicly available as part of MDOP 2012 which also includes the release of UE-V! After much speculation about the App-V 5.0 release date its great to have it finally here... Here's the official announcement ...
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Package Upgrades with App-V 5.0
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3 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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The workflow for package upgrades is pretty similar in App-V 5.0 as it was in 4.5, however there are now a few added benefits around phased targeted rollout of App-V upgrades…. I have a version one of Paint.NET deployed here: This version...
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Hotfix 1 for App-V 5.0 Officially Released
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2 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Yep that's right HF1 for App-V 5.0 is officially released and publicly available, you can find it here . It fixes two identified issues, I have come across issue 2 recently and it is potentially an issue that anyone using App-V full infrastructure could...
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App-V 5.0 OS Integration - Part 4 - State Changes
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22 days ago
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Thamim Karim
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In previous parts of this series we looked at the App-V 5.0 package format, how it sits on our client OS in the file system cache and how the registry works. So that’s all well and good but what about when about when users make customisations to...
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User Configuration Conflicts in App-V 5.0
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3 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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In App-V 5.0 we have the great ability to have user specific configurations applied to different AD groups for the delivery of an application. Essentially meaning one set of users can receive an application in a certain way and others users will get the...
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Where does custom user deployment information get stored and how does it work in App-V 5.0?
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6 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Further to our Boston connection, Ryan Cobb’s blog around how to publish individual applications inside a package to different users found here , a few people have been asking me how that data configuration actually works. Let’s take this...
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How to supress a reboot when applying an App-V client hotfix delivered via SCCM
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5 months ago
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Thamim Karim
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Every now and again we come across environments where desktop reboots are a very sensitive point and where forced, centrally initiated reboots are not acceptable. App-V tends to have numerous hotfixes released over the lifecycle of a major version; on...
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