Building A Windows Installer Package To Assist In The Distribution Of An App-V Application; Specifying Package Feature Block Optimizations - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

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Chapter 10: Creating Customized Virtual Applications

Creating Microsoft App-V Applications

You can also convert a suite of applications into one virtual package using Windows Installer Converter. See

Converting a Suite of Applications into a Virtual Package.

Building a Windows Installer Package to Assist in the Distribution of an App-V Application

You can choose to build a Windows Installer package to assist in the distribution of an App-V application. This

simplifies the deployment of an App-V application by enabling you to use enterprise distribution tools such as

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager or Novell ZENworks Configuration Management.

To build a Windows Installer package with your App-V application, select the Generate an installation package

as part of the build output check box on the Advanced Settings dialog box. You can access this dialog box by

clicking the Advanced Settings link in the More Options area on the Build Options page of the Microsoft App-V

Assistant. By default, this check box is not selected.

When you run this Windows Installer file, the minimally required App-V application files will be "installed" in the

local App-V client system cache. (The

downloaded when the application is launched for the first time.)

The App-V client must be installed on the local machine before you can install an App-V application. The

installation will detect and warn if the App-V client is not available, and the installation will fail.

To remove an installed App-V application, you need to use the Application Virtualization Client tool, which is

available in the Administrative Tools of the Windows Control Panel.

You can use the App-V Assistant Package Optimizations feature to control the performance and network traffic

associated with running an App-V application. The package optimization option you select determines how quickly

the App-V application will launch, and how often additional functionality will need to be streamed to the client while

the App-V application is being used.

The files in an App-V application can be grouped into two feature blocks:

Feature block

necessary to launch the application. At application launch, all of the files in feature block 1 are streamed to the

client in one unit.

Feature block

necessary to launch the application. While the App-V application is being used, the files in feature block 2 can

be streamed in small packets on an as-needed basis.

You can either choose to include all App-V application files in feature block 1 or, to improve launch speed, you can

choose to group the files into two feature blocks: feature block 1 and feature block 2.

file remains on the App-V server until the client requests that it be

1—Feature block 1 must contain the core functionality of the App-V application that is

2—Feature block 2 can contain additional functionality of the App-V application that is not

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