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Windows Installer Wrapper Portability
A Windows Installer package can be generated as part of the App-V build output. This "wrapper MSI" can be used
to deploy the App-V package onto the App-V client. The
located by the App-V client based on the information in the
wrapper MSI can now search for the
location for the
portable, making it easy to move the wrapper MSI from one network location to another.
Support for Compressing App-V Packages
The Build Options page in the Microsoft App-V Assistant has a new setting that lets you specify whether you want
to use compression for the data files in the App-V package. If you select Yes for this setting, InstallShield uses
compression for your App-V package.
Link to Build Output Folder Provided in Output Window
When you build an App-V package, the Output window now displays a link to the build output folder for the virtual
package.
Ability to Specify Global Setting to Identify Build Location
InstallShield includes a new machine-wide setting that lets you specify an existing writable location where all virtual
packages should be built. You may want to use this global setting if you are converting
read-only location to virtual packages.
To configure the machine-wide setting, find the
Settings.xml
element of the
Microsoft App-V Assistant OS Requirements List Now Includes Windows 7 and
Windows Server 2008 R2
The Package Information page of the Microsoft App-V Assistant now includes options for targeting Windows 7 and
Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft App-V Assistant Now Uses UTF-8 Encoding
InstallShield now creates the
this matches the behavior of the Microsoft Application Virtualization Sequencer. Previously, InstallShield created
these files with UTF-16 encoding, which seemed to lead to parser errors on some systems that had Cumulative
Update 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5.
App-V Font Support
Custom fonts included in installation packages will now be supported for App-V conversions. Therefore, the fonts
will be available when running the applications (
App-V 64 KB Block Size
The data block size has been increased from 32K to 64K. This is consistent with Microsoft Sequencer 4.6. One of
the advantages of this change is that App-V packages will feature slightly better compression.
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.sft
file when deploying the App-V package to the client. This makes the wrapper MSI more
.sft
file, enter the path as the text content for the
element.
<Virtualization>
, manifest, and
.osd
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file can be included inside the wrapper or can be
.sft
and manifest files. In AdminStudio 9.5, the
.osd
file in the same directory as the wrapper MSI, and, if found, it will use this
file that is installed with InstallShield. In that
Settings.xml
<GlobalBuildRedirectFolder>
files with UTF-8 encoding when building App-V packages;
.sprj
) in the generated App-V packages.
.osds
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packages that are in a
.msi
element, which is a child
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