App-V 5 PowerShell One Liners - Adding and Publishing App-V Server Packages

28 Oct 2012 in Automation on App-v, Powershell

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.

Using PowerShell to drive the App-V Management Server opens up plenty of great scenarios. Here’s how to use PowerShell to import a package (from a UNC path), publish it and grant access to a domain group, all on one line.

Import-AppvServerPackage -PackagePath "\\Server\Packages\MozillaFirefox16_pkg\MozillaFirefox16.appv" | Publish-AppvServerPackage -Verbose | Grant-AppvServerPackage -Groups "lab\Domain Users" -Verbose

The PackagePath property on the Import-AppvServerPackage command should take any UNC or HTTP path, just like the Management Server UI.

This example command should be easy enough to extend to import and publish a number of packages stored in target folder.