App-V future ready???

Let’s start my first post about App-V being future ready (or not). When I was trying to deploy an App-V Sequence on a Windows 7 Client (with App-V Client 4.5 CU1) the application didn’t seem to work… At first I thouhgt it was just me, so I recreated everything from scratch, but still no luck. The next step was to search on Google and here I found a very helpfull link: http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=126.

The solution is this: During the proces of making a sequence with the App-V Sequencer you get to tab Deployment. In this tab you can specify the Operating System (OS) on which this sequence can run. Before the App-V 4.5 CU1 version you didn’t have the option to select Windows 7. This means that the sequence will not be able to run on Windows 7. The sequence can only run on the OS that is selected on the Deployment tab (it is possible to change the OS directly in the OSD-file, for this you have to add an extra line like: <OS VALUE=”Win7″>).

After all this you can say that App-V is future ready, because by adding Windows 7 to the Deployment tab it was possible to deploy the sequence on Windows 7. Just a shame that you have to make changes to already excisting sequences…

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