App-V 5.0 is PowerShell driven, which means opportunity for automating and scripting tasks that might have to be completed manually or might have been a challenge to script previously.
After the corresponding Geek Speak talk at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona, I posted an article on automating a XenApp deployment and capture into Provisioning Services via the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT): Hands off my gold image – Automating Citrix XenApp/PVS Image Creation.
App-V 5.0 is PowerShell driven, which means opportunity for automating and scripting tasks that might have to be completed manually or might have been a challenge to script previously.
App-V 5.0 is PowerShell driven, which means opportunity for automating and scripting tasks that might have to be completed manually or might have been a challenge to script previously.
Citrix Provisioning Services is a great solution for the rapid deployment of Windows workloads from a master image. However, rapid deployment is not a replacement for a consistent, repeatable method of creating that master image.
Adobe Reader XI is now available and along with this release comes some interesting tools for deployment:
Note: this article covers a product that is in beta at the time of writing; therefore the specifics of the approach outlined in this article may be subject to change. This is not a recommendation to use this approach in production; rather it’s an exercise in understanding what’s possible with a new data synchronisation product.
Rory asks via Twitter - can we pre-cache App-V packages on laptop clients so that all applications are available offline, using AppSense Environment Manager?:
