During TechEd EMEA 2011 and – a few days later – at the German App-V User Group Meeting, Microsoft showed some features of the upcoming Service Pack 1 for Microsoft App-V 4.6, which is announced for the quarter of 2011.
You can watch the TechEd Videos. Ment van der Plas has collected them at http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=168. Also, Jurjen van Leeuwen collected some of the highlights at appvirtguru.com.
While Service Pack 1 for App-V 4.6 will significantly affect the Sequencer, there are also some changes to the App-V Client.
#1 Introduction and Key Findings
#2 Setting up the Staging Client and Loading Applications into the Staging Cache
#3 Assigning the updated Cache to VDI Virtual Machines (this article)
The asumption of a VDI scenario was the most important driver for Microsoft to develop App-V’s “Read-Only-Cache” functionalities. As Justin Zarb illustrated in one of his articles, storage space may become a significant cost driver in a VDI environment. Given that situation, there are some possibilities how to achieve storage savings. Please be aware that this blog article can not cover all the advantages, disadvantages and a deep technological assessment, so Iam a little bit short here: (more…)
