App-V

In the last SCCM Test Lab post, we looked at part 4, where we had done the basic setup, and were looking to go further into part 5.

Things have moved on since then. Microsoft has now officially released Windows Server 2016 and SCCM 2016. Windows 10 1607 was also released, with some interesting aspects about App-V and UE-V.

My focus for the last 2 months had been to plan for how we could in our organization have coexisting operating systems (Windows 7 and Windows 10) when the App-V solution was different for Windows 10 1607.

In this post I’ll be sharing some of the things I have discovered, and how you can try to make sense of all the confusion which might be out there.

When we last looked at the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit, we looked at a simple example of installing Visual C++ Runtime, which does not show the power of using the toolkit. In this post, we want to look at a more complete example of using the toolkit to save time and effort creating deployment scripts.

Toolkit Configuration

But first, we want to look into some of the configuration options of the toolkit. The toolkit folder has a file called AppDeployToolkitConfig.xml. This contains all the default configurations which will be used for all deployments.

This post picks up after part 1, part 2 and part 3. I suggest you read all 3 parts first to understand what is happening here in part 4.

In this part 4, we will setup the SCCM discovery methods, boundaries, boundary groups, SCCM roles, and push the SCCM Client to our client machine.

Lets get started