{"id":857,"date":"2012-04-04T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T15:45:32","slug":"beta-for-app-v-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Beta for App-V 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note:<\/strong>This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1<\/a> Part 2<\/a> Part 3<\/a> Part 4<\/a> Part 5<\/a><\/p>\n

In a blog post today<\/a>, Microsoft’s Karri Alexion-Tiernan announced the Beta for App-V 5.0, plus an additional MDOP add-on called UE-V.<\/p>\n

\u00a0App-V 5.0 is the most dramatic change to App-V in a really long time, possibly the biggest since the initial release by Softricity.\u00a0 While I have been working with previous releases, I’m not ready to talk much about the Beta.\u00a0 So much of what I know is under NDA and Microsoft surprised us with the announcement today, so I’ll need time to confirm what is actually in the beta.<\/p>\n

For those people who have been asking me if Microsoft will continue with the App-V server, the beta answers this clearly with a “YES”.\u00a0 The server has been rewritten and works completely differently.\u00a0 The console is browser\/silverlight based, and we can say goodbye to the RTSP protocol, as the new server prefers more mainstream protocols like HTTP.\u00a0 And you’d better learn powershell because you’ll need it on the server.<\/p>\n

The Client also undergoes radical change, as the virtual drive (Q) goes away.\u00a0 Things are now more “transparent” than before, which may or may not turn out to be a good thing.\u00a0 SFTMIME and SFTTRAY are a thing of the past, and powershell is now the name of the game.\u00a0 Also, I’ll note that the changes for VDI are a vast improvement over the Read-only cache implementation of 4.6SP1.<\/p>\n

The Sequencer remains similar to 4.6SP1 from a UI perspective, however the output is no longer the SFT format.\u00a0 Conversions of old packages to the new APPV format are possible using some powershell utilities (I have a tool to help automate that), but expect to find more than the usual number of packages that will have to be re-sequenced from scratch.\u00a0 That’s the downside of removing the Q drive.<\/p>\n

Oh, and did I mention powershell?\u00a0 Yeah, if you don’t know it yet and want to work with the new App-V you better start learning fast.\u00a0 I’ll write more as I get a change to confirm what a may or may not say yet.\u00a0 What I can say (since nobody at Microsoft gives me the slightest inkling of a release plan) is that this is probably an early beta and we are far from release.\u00a0 Since Microsoft announced the Beta of 4.6 SP2 just one month ago (to support the Beta of Windows 8), this adds credence to a slow release process.\u00a0 But you never know.<\/p>\n

As to the UE-V announcement, folks like Appsense and Unidesk must be really happy to see Microsoft validate the user environment (layering) strategy.\u00a0 UE-V as a Microsoft product is not likely to be robust enough to cut into their market share;\u00a0 possibly acting as Terminal Services does to meet the needs of a few while enhancing the need awareness to Citrix XenApp.\u00a0 But again, time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 In a blog post today, Microsoft’s Karri Alexion-Tiernan announced the Beta for App-V 5.0, plus an additional MDOP add-on called UE-V. \u00a0App-V 5.0 is the most dramatic change to App-V in a really long time, possibly… Continue reading Beta for App-V 5.0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,47,48],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-appv5","category-sequencing","tag-app-v","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}