Description

This course will show you how to virtualize and deploy an application with Microsoft App-v 5.0. You will learn how to create a package, add an application, administer it, and troubleshoot your users' applications.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

System administrators, packagers, developers.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Virtualize an application with Microsoft App-V 5.0

Explore and modify a virtual package

Use the application sequencer

Manage an application requiring a device driver

Deploy a virtualized application in standalone mode

Training program

• Application virtualization
  • Principles of application virtualization.
  • The main solutions: App-V, XenApp, ThinApp.
  • The architectures of the Microsoft App-V solution.
  • What’s new in App-V 5.
  • 0 (and 5.0 SP2).
  • The limits of virtualization.
• Virtual packages
  • Microsoft sequencer, definition of the environment.
  • Preparing the machine for sequencing.
  • The concept of exclusions and Models.
  • Sequence your first application.
  • Deploy a virtualized application in standalone mode (MSI/PowerShell).
  • The different types of virtual packages.
  • Study case Virtualization of different applications (XML Notepad, Mozilla Firefox, Winzip).
• Explore and edit a virtual package
  • The registry, files and virtual services.
  • Configure the interaction between the application bubble and the client workstation.
  • Add an application to an existing bubble.
  • Practical work Explore, modify a package.
• Les "packages accelerators"
  • The benefits of these tools.
  • Accelerator package: use and creation.
  • Practical work Create an Accelerator package.
• The special case of Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Office 2013/365, 2010.
  • Previous versions (2007, 2003.).
  • Case study Virtualize Microsoft Office.
• Run a local application in an application bubble
  • The RunVirtual revolution.
  • The appvve, appvpid parameter.
  • Using PowerShell.
  • The
  • Case study Run a local application (Internet Explorer - JRE(s)/Excel - PowerPivot/Paint.Net - Framework .Net/Silverlight / Flash Player).
• Introduction to dynamic configuration
  • The usefulness of dynamic configuration.
  • Scripting.
  • DeploymentConfig and UserConfig.
  • Case studyrnManagement of 'an application requiring a device driver.'}
• Other tools to virtualize
  • Sequence with PowerShell.
  • Flexera AdminStudio - Automate your developments.
  • Open Source tools.