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Administering App-V using PowerShell

Updated: November 1, 2012

Applies To: Application Virtualization 5.0

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 provides Windows PowerShell cmdlets which can help administrators perform various App-V 5.0 tasks. The following sections provide more information about using PowerShell with App-V 5.0.

How to administer App-V 5.0 by using PowerShell

Use the following PowerShell procedures to perform various App-V 5.0 tasks.

Name	Description
How to Use the PowerShell Cmdlets	Describes how to use the PowerShell cmdlets.
How to Use Connection Groups on a Standalone Computer Using PowerShell	Describes how to manage connection groups using PowerShell.
How to Modify Client Configuration Using PowerShell	Describes how to modify the client using PowerShell.
How to Apply the User Configuration File Using PowerShell	Describes how to apply a user configuration file using PowerShell.
How to Apply the Deployment Configuration File Using PowerShell	Describes how to apply a deployment configuration file using PowerShell.
How to Sequence a Package Using PowerShell	Describes how to create a new package using PowerShell.
How to Create a Package Accelerator Using PowerShell	Describes how to create a package accelerator using PowerShell. You can use package accelerators automatically sequence large, complex applications
How to Enable Reporting on the App-V 5.0 Client using PowerShell	Describes how to enable the computer running the App-V 5.0 to send reporting information.
How To Install the App-V Databases and Convert the Associated Security Identifiers (SID) Using PowerShell	Describes how to take an array of account names and to convert each of them to the corresponding SID in standard and hexadecimal formats.

PowerShell Error Handling

Use the following table for information about App-V 5.0 PowerShell error handling.

Event	Action
Using the RollbackOnError attribute with embedded scripts.	When you use the RollbackOnError attribute with embedded scripts the attribute is ignored for the following events: Removing a package. Unpublishing a package. Terminating a virtual environment. Terminating a process.
Package name contains $.	If a package name contains the character ( $ ), you must use a single-quote ( ‘ ) for example, Add-AppvClientPackage ‘Contoso$App.appv’

Event

Action

Using the RollbackOnError attribute with embedded scripts.

When you use the RollbackOnError attribute with embedded scripts the attribute is ignored for the following events:

Removing a package.
Unpublishing a package.
Terminating a virtual environment.
Terminating a process.

Package name contains $.

If a package name contains the character ( $ ), you must use a single-quote ( ‘ ) for example,

Add-AppvClientPackage ‘Contoso$App.appv’

Administering App-V using PowerShell

How to administer App-V 5.0 by using PowerShell

PowerShell Error Handling

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