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Server App-V is an application virtualization technology that allows you to virtualize applica-
tions, usually web applications that run on server platforms. Once virtualized and packaged,
application deployment and removal is simple, minimizing the amount of work required to
add instances of an application as you scale out a service across additional VMs as a way of
increasing capacity.
This section covers the following topics:
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Server App-V
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Server App-V packages
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Sequencing applications
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Deploying a Server App-V package
Server App-V allows you to create virtual application packages through a process termed
sequencing. You can deploy sequenced applications to a computer that has the Server App-V
agent installed. These sequenced applications will run without requiring local installation.
You create a virtual application package using Server App-V by capturing the following
elements of an application running on Windows Server:
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Information required to install the application
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Application binary files
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Registry settings
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Runtime state of the deployed application
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Registry settings
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Log files
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Application data
You can deploy sequenced Server App-V applications to a new server with the applica-
tion's last runtime state intact, which means you don't need to go through installation and
configuration steps when deploying the application.
