Set Up Microsoft App-V Applications - Ivanti

To set up a Microsoft App-V 5.x application, add a new application to the Management Console.

• The command line can be specified in one of these ways:
  • On computers running Microsoft Windows Vista or higher, you can point the command line of the application to an App-V 5.x package (*.appv) in, for example, the shared content share. This file share will have been set up during the installation of your Microsoft App-V 5.x server, when you chose the App-V distribution method. The command line includes the App-V application package GUID and a variable for the version GUID. This ensures that the application can be started even if a new version of the App-V package is deployed.
  • If the Microsoft App-V 5 client is installed on the computer where the App-V 5 application is configured, you can let the command line point to the executable of a virtual application in the package installation root. By default, this is located at %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\App-V\<PACKAGEID>\<VERSIONID>. The App-V application package GUID and version GUID are included in the command line. Newer versions of the App-V package will not be used.
• The application title, description and icon are automatically retrieved from the App-V package.If the command line is correctly identified as an App-V 5.x application, the following line will appear on the Properties > General tab of the application:Microsoft App-V 5 Integration will be used for this application
• Use Package delivery mode to configure if and how Workspace Control should handle App-V package delivery.
  • Selecting Minimal (global) or Minimal (per user) will create symbolic links for the App-V package. The App-V client will not mount the package locally, but instead will use the links to load the package from the configured (network) storage location.When using Minimal, the registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\Client\Streaming\AutoLoad must be set to 0. This will prevent the App-V client from fully downloading an App-V application when a user starts that application for the first time (default behavior).
  • Selecting Full (global) or Full (per user) will mount the App-V package in the background, after the application is launched. This will load the full package to the package installation root, even if HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\Client\Streaming\SharedContentStoreMode is set to 1.
  • When selecting Always use latest version of package, Workspace Control will look for newer versions of the App-V package in the configured Package root folder, up to two levels deep.
• To configure File Types for the application, click the Import button on the File Types tab.

With Microsoft App-V 5.x integration the Workspace Control features that can be configured are extended with User Settings Tracking, User Settings Prefetching, and Process interception.

Microsoft App-V 5.x

• After upgrading to RES Workspace Manager 2014 SR2 or higher, configuring the Package delivery mode for existing Microsoft App-V 5 packages (packages that were configured in an earlier version than RES Workspace Manager 2014 SR2) will require you to (re)specify the central location of the Microsoft App-V 5 packages.
• When configuring the Workspace Control option Package delivery mode for Microsoft App-V 5 packages with Minimal (per user) or Full (per user), the feature Folder Redirection for the Windows folder AppData, is not supported.
• On the User Settings > Properties tab, when selecting Track any setting changed by application immediately for Zero Profile mode, the Registry to track (on the User Settings > Tracking tab of the application) must be HKEY_CURRENT_USER. If this registry is changed, no User Settings can be tracked for this Microsoft App-V 5 application.