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App-V Resource Kit Tools | App-V Additional Tools

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5/4.6 Resource Kit Tools

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5/4.6 Resource Kit Tools

App-V resource Kit tools provide some feature enhancements that are not part of the major product feature map.

Tools listed at the Resorce Kit Tools Site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/appvirtualization/dd277292.aspx

Name Description  Source 
Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) Tool
  • GUI to modify target OSD files for Dynamic Suiting

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DAA898DF-455F-438A-AA2A-421F05894098
Cache Resizing Tool
  • Change the Cache size without flushing it
 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E7089FA-C6AB-4150-8562-3B5BC14CD881
SFT Parser Tools
  • Validate SFTs
  • XML export of SFTs metadata
  • List all packaged files
  • SFT metadata statistics
  • Packaged file's metadata information
 www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E5A7DB27-304B-4CD1-9C80-7BA5FDAEA97F 
Client Log Parser
  • Extract Log files from one and more Clients

www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=72876C60-3A87-4705-B722-F73EB56219BF

Check out Justin Zarb's Blog posts on how to use the Log Parser:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualworld/archive/2009/04/20/getting-to-grips-with-the-app-v-client-log-parser-utility-launch-times.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualworld/archive/2009/04/20/getting-to-grips-with-the-app-v-client-log-parser-utility-error-codes.aspx

 
Application Listing Tool
  • List currently running applications

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5DA48313-CF6D-445D-AF97-594F194AC759 

 

Additional Microsoft Tools for App-V

Microsft ADM Template for App-V

Control App-V Client settings by Group Policy Objects (GPOs)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67CDF9D2-7E8E-4D76-A552-FD82DBBFF9BC

 

Microsoft Assesment and Planning Toolkit for App-V

Inventory, Assesment and Reporting tool to evaluate an environment against present and future App-V implementation

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd632928.aspx

 

Application Virtualization Sequencing SuperFlow

The App-V SuperFlow provides access to relevant documentation based ion the actual Sequencing Step.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8c4dfab6-7ef5-4188-a531-346cf9bfe7bf

 

Application Virtualization SFT View Tool

The SFT View Tool allows the OS (and applications) to look into the file system and - redirected - into the Registry that is stored in a SFT File.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=26d8bfe3-02dd-4073-95f8-594bbb12933a

Review: http://kirxblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/first-look-at-microsofts-application-virtualization-sft-view-tool/

Application Virtualization Dashboard for Sharepoint

The "App-V dashboard" web part for Sharepoint allows to retrieve usage information from the App-V Data Store and to generate high-level reports for Management and Reporting. Moe information can be found at:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff424455.aspx