I have been spending quite a bit of time building and playing with Microsoft App-V 5 in my lab and decided I would post a quick setup guide to help get evaluation and initial environments up and running.  This blog series will be broken into many parts, from SQL to App-V management, reporting, publishing, load balancing, sequencing, and client installations. The following topology diagram shows the initial environment including all the pieces broken out for scalability and high availability: For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into five parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation <-- YOU ARE HERE Part [...]

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation  Part 2: Management and Reporting Server Installation <-- YOU ARE HERE Part 3: Publishing Server Installation, Registration, and Load Balancer Configuration Part 4: Sequencing and Client Installation To ease deployment, I’ve created a Prerequisites PowerShell quick reference. Copy the following to paste into an elevated PowerShell prompt: Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server Install-WindowsFeature Web-Asp-Net Install-WindowsFeature Web-Net-Ext Install-WindowsFeature Web-ISAPI-Ext Install-WindowsFeature Web-ISAPI-Filter Install-WindowsFeature Web-Windows-Auth Install-WindowsFeature Web-Mgmt-Console Install-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-45-ASPNET [...]

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation Part 2: Management and Reporting Server Installation Part 3: Publishing Server Installation, Registration, and Load Balancer Configuration <-- YOU ARE HERE Part 4: Sequencing and Client Installation On the Publishing Servers (WS12APPV502 and WS12APPV503 in my topology) complete the App-V installation, using the following processes. Repeat this same process for any additional publishing servers. To ease deployment, I’ve created a Prerequisites PowerShell quick [...]

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation  Part 2: Management and Reporting Server Installation Part 3: Publishing Server Installation, Registration, and Load Balancer Configuration Part 4: Sequencing and Client Installation <-- YOU ARE HERE The next logical step is to install the sequencing components. In my topology, I have a Windows 8 Sequencer and a Windows Server 2012 Sequencer. The installation process is the same for both. I would highly [...]