Tales from the Datacenter

Configuring Existing App-V Sequences for the 4.6 Client Beta

I’ve seen a lot of buzz lately on the release of the App-V 4.6 Public Beta.  Of course, I downloaded the new 4.6 clients because the most exciting feature (to me) in it is support for 64-bit App-V clients.

The second most exciting feature (to me) is the support for packages sequenced with 4.5 to be played on 4.6 clients (even the x64 client!).  The problem I had this morning, though, was there are a ton of blogs touting this support, but no one bothered to publish how.  For instance, from The App-V Team Blog:

All your pre-4.6 packages are valid and can continue to be used on the 4.6 client – just modify the OSD file to include the OS values for the 32 and/or 64-bit platform as target, as appropriate.

So, it can be done, but how do I include support for Windows 7 x64 clients in the OSD?  Like this:

Your current OSD files have a section that includes something similar to the following:

<OS VALUE=”WinXP”/>
<OS VALUE=”Win7″/>

This indicates that the package is available for all Windows XP and Windows 7 clients (32-bit of course, because version 4.5 does not support 64-bit).  So, add the following to your OSD file under the last “OS VALUE” entry to enable support for Windows 7 x64:

<OS VALUE=”Win764″/>

And here’s a list of all the available target operating systems:

<OS VALUE=”Win2003TS”/>
<OS VALUE=”Win2003TS64″/>
<OS VALUE=”Win2008R2TS64″/>
<OS VALUE=”Win2008TS”/>
<OS VALUE=”Win2008TS64″/>
<OS VALUE=”Win7″/>
<OS VALUE=”Win764″/>
<OS VALUE=”WinVista”/>
<OS VALUE=”WinVista64″/>
<OS VALUE=”WinXP”/>
<OS VALUE=”WinXP64″/>