App-V: What’s new in Application Virtualization 5.0 SP1

With SP1 recently released, I am starting to plan an upgrade from App-V 4.6 to 5.0. I am happy with the existing environment and expect more from the new version, so I want to examine its features and infrastructure more closely. I am downloading MDOP 2013 through my MSDN subscription.

App-V 5.0 is already a preferred way to deploy Office 365 ProPlus (Click-To-Run) in an enterprise with no sequencing required, but we know that one of most widely deployed version of Office by our customers is Microsoft Office 2010. With this in mind, we focused our efforts on the SP1 release of App-V 5.0 to provide Microsoft Office 2010 support. One of our goals for Office 2010 support on App-V 5.0 is to provide our customers feature parity with Office 2010 on App-V 4.6. We are pleased to have released the Microsoft Office 2010 Sequencing Kit for Application Virtualization 5.0 that will give end users a consistent experience with virtualized Office. This now allows virtualized Office 2010 to open, edit, and save Office files hosted with Microsoft SharePoint; search indexing support for Office file types; redirect URL protocol to virtualized Outlook 2010; print to virtualized OneNote 2010 – to name a few!

Reference

• What’s New in Application Virtualization 5.0 SP1 and User Experience Virtualization 1.0 SP1