After a fair few months of work and with support from the team at PACKT my new book (Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook) is out on sale. With over 60 recipes for the practical application of Microsoft Application Virtualization (Version 5) from every angle including… Setting up your first App-V infrastructure Deploying the software clients and prerequisites Sequencing applications into packages Publishing applications and… Read more
Tag: Application Deployment
Deploy the OSX Impero Client with Munki
Since discovering it Munki has made my life looking after Apple Macs measurably easier. In short it allows the centralised deployment of Apple OSX updates as well as the deployment (and updating) of 3rd party software. In the short screen shot guide below I show how to deploy the OSX Impero Client using Munki.
Deploying Greenfoot 2.3 via GPO
In this guide I will show you how to create a deployment of Greenfoot 2.3 using Group Policy Software Deployment while ensuring that the software is available for all users of the computer and removing the unnecessary desktop and start menu shortcuts. If you don’t feel like reading through the guide and you want to use the modifications listed above… Read more
Deploying the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Client via GPO
When it comes to SCCM 2012 you have a powerful bit of software to deploy software updates and applications however all of this is worthless without the SCCM 2012 client which must first be installed. This client comes as part of any task sequence that you configure however what if you have PCs that have been previously imaged or have… Read more
Changing the path to a MSI in Group Policy Software Installation
Lets imagine that for the past few years software has been deployed using Group Policy Software Installation and that a single server has been used to store the MSIs. The only issue is you now want to move the MSIs to another server or even better are looking to move the MSIs to a DFS share. The ovious option would be… Read more
Deploying Adobe Reader 11 to the Enterprise via GPO
PDF is quite possibly one of my favourite web technologies – if nothing else it is my #1 way to share files with others knowing that when they go to view/print them it will look precisely the same as it does on my PC. The great thing about Adobe PDF reader is its very easy to fully customize the installation without… Read more
Deploying Flash 11 to the Enterprise via GPO
Adobe Flash Player has to be one of the most valuable bits of software ever created, yes HTML5 is taking over for some things but all the same I don’t see Flash disappearing anytime soon. As such its important to keep Flash updated in your Enterprise. The one pain I’m sure everyone has come across at some stage is your… Read more
Deploying Java 7 to the Enterprise via GPO
I’m sure if you have ever spent any time looking after PCs you will soon come accross Java asking for updates; in a managed enviroment you wouldn’t want your users to see this prompt and the simple fix is to deploy Java properly. Before I go any further I would like to thank the creator of this article – http://adminadventure.wordpress.com/… Read more
Deploying Skype 6.3 to the Enterprise via GPO
For a while now Skype have offered a MSI, a ADM template and a nifty little guide on Enterprise Deployment considerations but so far I haven’t found a decent guide which shows how to bring all of these components together to get Skype out there on your client PCs. In this guide I will be looking to, deploy Skype 6.3… Read more
Sequencing Adobe CS6 for App-V – Part 3, the testing/how/why
With any luck if you have followed the previous instructions to the letter you should now have a perfectly working App-V package for any of the Adobe CS6 applications, to confirm that the licence is applying correctly you should see a command prompt window appear just before any of the Adobe applications load just as you see in the series… Read more