Specifying The Primary Application Directory - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 10: Creating Customized Virtual Applications
Creating Microsoft App-V Applications

Specifying the Primary Application Directory

When App-V applications are run on a machine that has Microsoft Virtualization Client installed, they are run from
the Client's application cache drive.
For optimum performance, it is desirable to have the bulk of the application's files mounted to this drive at run-time.
In order to achieve this, it is useful to determine an application's primary application directory so that folder can be
mounted to the App-V Client's application literal cache drive when the App-V application is loaded.
When an App-V application is built using InstallShield or any AdminStudio tool, the following series of steps are
used to determine an App-V application's primary application directory:
Table 10-6 • Steps to Automatically Determine Primary Application Directory
# Step
1 Explicitly set primary
application directory
2 Value of INSTALLDIR
variable
3 Location of shortcut
in a subdirectory of
the
ProgramFilesFolder
4 Location of shortcut
in a directory other
than
ProgramFilesFolder
5 ProgramFilesFolder
You can specify the Primary Application Directory for an App-V application by clicking Primary Application
Directory in the More Options list on the Files page.
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Description
If a directory is specified on the InstallShield App-V Assistant's Primary
Application Directory dialog box (as described in
Primary Application Directory), that directory will be used.
If the Windows Installer package has a value for
that specifies the root destination directory for an installation), that value will be
used as the primary application directory.
Note • This step is not used when converting Windows Installer packages that have been
repackaged using AdminStudio Repackager.
Note • All Windows Installer packages created by InstallShield or AdminStudio will have a
value for the INSTALLDIR variable.
If one of the targets for a shortcut is in a subdirectory of
.exe
, then the folder directly under
ProgramFilesFolder
be used as the primary application directory. Typically, this would be:
C:\Program Files\YourApplication
If no targets are located in a subdirectory of
.exe
the target directory of a shortcut that contains an
If none of the above can be found, then the primary application directory will be
set to
ProgramFilesFolder
C:\Program Files
INSTALLDIR
ProgramFilesFolder
.exe
. Typically, this would be:
ADS-0950-UG00
Explicitly Setting the
(a system variable
will
ProgramFilesFolder
, then
will be used.
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