How to Prepare for a Migration to App-V 5.0

This is the first post in a series of posts around migration of App-V from 4.x to 5.0. Introduction Since App-V 5.0 was announced in November last year, it has garnered lots of excitement from customers. In order to provide those benefits, App-V was designed from ground up to provide the foundation upon which we could…

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App-V 5.0 – Convert Legacy Packages to the new file format

Hi all, In a previous post we showed how easy it is to test App-V legacy packages, now we’re going to convert automatically these packages to the new App-V 5.0 format. http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualworld/archive/2012/10/24/app-v-5-0-legacy-package-conversion-report-creation.aspx To complete this we’re going to use the “ConvertFrom-AppvLegacyPackage” cmdlet from the App-V 5.0 Beta 2 release. ConvertFrom-AppvLegacyPackage Converts each package to the…

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App-V 5.0 – Legacy Package Conversion Report Creation

Hi all, Imagine the scenario, you have 200 packages created with 4.5+ and you want to test that they will work with App-V 5.0, how do we accomplish this? As part of the App-V 5.0 beta 2 release it offers the ability to automatically test legacy packages to see if they are compatible for package…

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