Package Sequencing with App-V
Posted by Wayne Barry on July 1, 2009
March 2009
The following applications have been sequenced to run under App-V, these include:
- Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher, Onenote, PictureManager)
- SPSS 16
- Minitab 15
- Adobe Photoshop CS
- Crocodile Clips (this is just for a test and is not part of the iBorrow suite of software)
- Adobe Reader plugin
- Adobe Flashplayer plugin
- Adobe Shockwave plugin
- Java plugin
This will be the bulk of the software that will be provided fo the iBorrow netbooks. The plugins, themselves, will be exposed as part of one local Internet Eexplorer 7 session.
Attempts have also been made to sequence Adobe Design CS3. Unfortunately, there are issues with the Photoshop CS3 component that have yet to be resolved.
For the time being, the team suggests that :
- installed Design CS3 locally on the terminal server and make it available through the RemoteApps component.
- performed comparison with the App-V installation of Photoshop CS on terminal server.
- when accessed on the terminal server, i.e. through remote login, bothversions performed equally well in the freehand doodle test.
- however, when the team ran the RemoteApps version on a Microsoft Vista client, the performance dropped significantly compared to the (locally executed) App-V version (i.e. RemoteApps doodles were a lot more angular than App-V doodles.)
- this simple test highlights the difference between RemoteApps and App-V. RemoteApps executes on the server, App-V executes locally. For graphical applications, where there is a lot of communication between the host and the client this leads to performance degradation.
May 2009
Additional applications have been sequenced to run under App-V, these include:
- Serif PhotoPlus 10
- Serif MoviePlus 4.0
- Dolphin EasyConverter
- Symbol Draw
- SCalc
- SimPress
- SWriter
- OpenOffice (Writer, Math, Impress, Draw, Calc, Base)
- Crocodile Physics 605
- Audacity
- ATLAS.ti 5.2
- Paint.NET
