What’s New In Tim Mangan Kahuna: TMurgent Technologies LLP Microsoft MVP for Application Virtualization President, Virtualization Boston

 What is Application Virtualization?  Who are the Players?  New  Licensing Impact of the Microsoft RDS CAL  Server 2008 R2 is 64-bit Only  App-V Without a Server Infrastructure

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Operating System App 1 App 3 App 4 App 2 Operating System App 1 App 3 App 4 App 2 App to OS App to OS & App to App App to OS App to App

UserA Prefs UserB Prefs UserC Prefs Operating System App 1 App 3 App 4 App 2

 App-V for Terminal Services (RDS)  App-V for Windows Desktops (Part of MDOP)

Licensing. How to get App-V for ”free”.

 Sold by App-V CAL (Client Access License)  Server 2008 R2 RDS CAL: includes App-V CAL  Server 2008 TS CAL: grandfathers App-V in!  Server 2003 TS CAL: no such luck!  Exchange:  “Old” App-V TS CALs  for “New” 2008 RS RDS CALs at 4 x 1  If SA is current on old CALs as of 9/09 New

Requires separate App-V for TS CAL included App-V for TS CAL included

Virtual Application X Group Policy User Profile Virtualization Settings Package Virtualization Settings Windows Registry Files (Data) Non virtualized Applications, Services, dlls, and COM components

BOLD items are differences from #3

 Sequence as always  Save Package in a folder of same name  Copy to central File Share

 Install App-V Client in “Stand-Alone” Mode with Streaming  AllowStreamingFromFile = 1  RequireAuthorizationIfCached = 0  LimitedDisconnectedMode = 0  Give User Rights to “Publish App”  Needed for logon script  Install AppV_DeployApp  Configure Server Share  Configure Application OU  Add AppV_Publish to user login script

 Create an “Organization Unit “ (OU) in A.D.  Create a user group for each package  Package names much match sequence package  Assign users as members of package group  This step typically carried out by many people

 Use AppV_Deploy to add virtual app to terminal server AND load cache (without /GLOBAL) Now… As users log in, application shortcuts and FTAs are published to their account. Later… Update package by copying updated pkg. Can use “Soft-link” to eliminate downtime

Here are some links to Microsoft sites and pages most relevant to this topic. App-V on TechNet: Remote Desktop Services Team Blog: difference-between-a-rds-cal-and-a-ts-cal.aspx Remote Desktop Services Licensing: licensing.aspx App-V on TechNet: Remote Desktop Services Team Blog: difference-between-a-rds-cal-and-a-ts-cal.aspx Remote Desktop Services Licensing: licensing.aspx