More App-V Recipes
In an effort to aid the App-V community with sequencing guidance Microsoft launched the App-V sequencing forum yesterday. The goal of this area is to collect more App-V specific application sequencing guidance so that other users can reference and learn from other people’s experiences.
For example I put up recipe for Adobe Reader and for the most part Adobe Reader is a very easy application to sequence. But what I’ve seen most people do to turn off the auto updates they end up hacking the MSI to bits so that the feature never gets installed. In my recipe I utilize a more supported method by downloading a setup customization tool that easily configures the Adobe Reader installer to install with many options configured the way a systems administrator would prefer it to be.
I also tackled the Oracle 11G client even though most of you will probably not sequence just the client. The idea here was to give some idea as to best practice if you are using a TNSNames.ora file for service name resolution since that is a very common configuration of the client in sites I have been to. You’ll likely apply another application that uses Oracle to the same sequence or join the sequence with an application using DSC but at least you have a building block that will get you one step closer to your solution.
Take a look around and see the content currently available. If you think that you have found a sequencing solution that may benefit others open up the following post that you can use as a template for your recipe submission.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/prescriptiveguidance/thread/ce5e2617-637a-4ab6-a6fe-f1ebe965709d
If you are only interested in browsing the current content use the following link to access the forum.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/prescriptiveguidance/