On my corporate laptop I use a virtual Mozilla Firefox sequenced with Microsoft App-V. I created the package with all the plugins and settings that I prefer. One day I discovered strange behavior when I applied a desktop background from the virtual package.
During sequencing of an application I received an error about the services (App-V Sequencer 4.6). The installer of the application installs a service that is required for the application. Normally the installer starts the service and continues the installation but this time the following error message occurred.
With the SCCM 2007 R2 release Microsoft delivers a VBScript to import and manage App-V applications. Because the limitations I wrote the import part in Powershell. The following script is only to import an App-V application and does not create a Collection or Advertisement.
To import an App-V application the following parameters are required.
$App = The App-V sequence name based on the directory name.
$Site = SCCM Site
$smsShare = The share of the SCCM server to copy the application to.
$AppShare = The share where the application is located.
$SCCMServer = SCCM Server Name.
Param($App, $Build, $Site, $smsShare, $AppShare, $SCCMServer)
The following function is to add the icon in SCCM.
Function Icon-Handeling
{
param($Icon)
$Obj = New-Object -ComObject ADODB.Stream
$Obj.Open()
$Obj.Type = 1
$Obj.LoadFromFile("$Icon")
Set-Variable -Name IconData -Value $Obj.Read() -Scope 2
}
An article by our colleague from Login Consultants on Kirxblog.
Still beeing behind the horizon, Microsoft Application Virtualisation next version’s dawn slowly starts lightening our virtual world…
During the 3rd App-V Day in Germany, Microsoft disclosed a very few, well, “details” about the next major release of App-V.
Having a healthy application virtualization infrastructure platform involves configuring the App-V client with the appropriate settings. Today there are two main ways of configuring the client, either during the initial client installation process or afterwards.
Benefit of configuring the client during installation is that the client is fully operational in the shortest amount of time and can be used directly after the installation. Configuration can be done through one of the many command line parameters. If command line configuration is not preferred, settings can also be captured in a Microsoft Transform file (MST) and applied to the original installation.