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Configuration Manager integrated model
The integrated model uses Configuration Manager to manage and measure the deployment
of App-V virtualized applications. This deployment model uses the following components:
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App-V Sequencer
You use this to create sequence App-V applications in App-V 5.0
format. You can also use the Sequencer to sequence applications in MSI format, which
you can deploy using Configuration Manager.
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App-V client
You need to deploy the App-V client to devices that want to access
virtualized applications.
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Configuration Manager
You manage and deploy virtualized applications to col-
lections of computers by using Configuration Manager. Virtualized applications are
streamed from Configuration Manager distribution points. To use all the features of
App-V 5.0, you must have deployed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
or System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager.
In this integrated model, virtualized applications are deployed as Configuration Manager
applications by using the special App-V 5.0 application type rather than from a Publishing
Server.
When you use the App-V application type with Configuration Manager, virtualized
applications can be streamed from distribution points in the same manner as when you use
a Publishing Server in the App-V full infrastructure model. The advantage of the integrated
model over the App-V full infrastructure model is that in the integrated model, virtualized
applications can stream off any existing Configuration Manager distribution point.
Configuration Manager distribution points can also take advantage of BranchCache and
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) functionality.
Another advantage of the integrated model is that its deployment process can automati-
cally determine whether the App-V client is present during application deployment and, if
not, deploy the client before deploying the virtualized application. For example, if you deploy
a virtualized application to a collection of 10 computers, and 5 of those computers do not
have the App-V client installed, Configuration Manager can be set to deploy the App-V client
automatically before deploying the virtualized application.
App-V applications can be listed as a deployment type in Configuration Manager. You can
choose to deploy an application such as Microsoft Word to a computer and then build logic
into the deployment so that, in some cases, the application is installed locally in a traditional
manner, and in other cases, the application is installed as an App-V application. For example,
Microsoft Word is installed locally if the computer is designated as the user's primary device,
but it is installed as an App-V application if the computer is not designated as the user's
primary device. The App-V deployment type enables administrators to perform temporary
application deployment, which deploys the application to the client but does not make an
ongoing configuration change in the client.
