App V

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Hi Ed

Yes I use this at work, although not fired it up recently. We have more of a hybrid layout for the school in that the apps used in the various depts are loaded onto their machines, but I try to virtualise the apps onto our Xendesktop farm. The obviously depends on the app and what resources it need from the VM. Looked at publishing them through the citrix DDC's so the kids could use the apps on their own laptops, but unless they have the appv client installed it wouldn't work.

Tips, make sure you use exactly the same OS right down to 32/64bit, same service pack/patch level, same version of office (unless you are virtualising that as well). I use a VM to do the appv process on so I can get the image to the same as the targets and then snapshot it with the appv client installed. Then when you've finished you can just return the image back to where you started.

Also make sure you document, with screen shot the whole process. I've got a recipe guide at work and I'll try to put it up here.

Hope that helps