Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Client 5.0

If you want to create an application for the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Client 5.0, there are some extra steps you have to take.

Prerequisites

The client has the following prerequisites, all of which can be downloaded from the Setup Store:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable – 12.0.20808 (x64 or x86)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable – 10.0.40219 (x64 or x86)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable – 8.0.61001 (x64 and x86)

For Windows 7 you also need the following:

• Microsoft .NET 4 Framework 4.0 Extended
• Microsoft Powershell 3.0 (can be found in Windows Management Framework 3.0)

Extracting the MSI

After you have downloaded the appv_client-setup.exe, we have to extract the MSI’s.

1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the appv_client-setup.exe.
2. To extract the MSI’s in the same directory as the setup file, type ”appv_client-setup.exe /LAYOUT”

If you want to extract the MSI’s to another directory, type:

appv_client-setup.exe /LAYOUT /LAYOUTDIR=”path "

Example usage: /LAYOUTDIR=”C:\Application Virtualization Client”.

The directory now contains the files we need appv_client_MSI_x86.msi and appv_client_MSI_x64.msi. With these files, you can create an application.

Setup Store Configuration Wizard

You can further set several options with the ”Microsoft App-v Client 5.0 Configuration Wizard