This post is to provide a quick reference of the installation flow of Microsoft System Center Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 Management Server. The steps to configure the server, import applications, and validate the settings are not included in this post and to be discussed in a screencast currently in development and soon to be published in this blog. The presented screen flow was captured during an installation of an App-V Management Server on a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise version with a machine name, App-V, and a local instance of Microsoft SQL 2005 SP2 on a virtual machine based on Hyper-V.
For those who have previously worked on SoftGrid 4.x infrastructure, the installation of App-V Management Server appears very familiar and uneventful. The RTSPS port shown in screen 10 is by default set to 322. If you are putting in place a brand new virtualization infrastructure, do take time to review the 4.5 documentation and plan it out. Particularly the content ___location where the App-V packages are placed as shown in screen 13. Once the packages are put in place and working, it is error prone and can be tedious to validate the content ___location in all packages, should the content ___location be later changed.
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| Sample App-V package placement |
| Sample App-V Management Server Console configuration |
To get the latest information of Microsoft Application Virtualization, reference the following:
- Virtualization TechCenter
- Application Virtualization Deployment Requirements
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and the community
- Virtualization team blog
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Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
One key focus of an App-V solution is the ability to run multiple versions of the same application software