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App-V 4.6 to 5.0 - Comparison Cheat Sheet

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App-V 4.6 App-V 5.0
Mount drive (Q:) on sequencer and client No mount drive on sequencer or client
RTSPS, RTSP, HTTP, HTTPS and SMB streaming HTTP, HTTPS and SMB streaming
.SFT package file format .APPV package file format
.OSD .XML Dynamic Deployment/User Configuration
Sfttray.exe for application launch Application .exe called directly
Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) Application Connection Groups (ACG)
Shared Read Only Cache Shared Content Store
SFTFS.FSD cache file Flat file structure in %ProgramData%
Default isolation of applications Default isolation of application apart from Virtual Application Extensions
Management Server MMC Console Management Server Silverlight web console
Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 desktop OS support Windows 7 and 8 desktop OS support
Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 Server OS Support Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 Server OS Support
SFTMIME/SFTTRAY commands on client and SFTSEQUENCER command line for sequencer PowerShell commands on client, sequencer and server
Sftlog.txt and Event Log error reporting Event Log – Applications and Services Logs
Non Optimised Streaming (Default) or Feature Block definition On Demand – Stream Faults Streaming(Default) or Feature Block definition
Application reboot simulated by Sequencer Application reboot physically actioned during Sequencing
User based targeting only (App-V Full Infrastructure) User and computer based targeting (App-V Full Infrastructure)
Package upgrades deployed to all users Phased package upgrades

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    No problems!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Glad you found it useful!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Let us know how you get on HansMJ!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    It sure is a great release Yannara! Check out this post for details on where to download and some other useful links around the App-V 5.0 release: blogs.technet.com/.../app-v-5-0-rtm-now-released.aspx

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    "Management Server Silverlight web console" Why would Microsoft choose to use Silverlight at this point?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Rich, Any changes with the direction of Silverlight likely would of occurred somewhere into the development cycle of the App-V 5.0 release, the investment would probably have been significant enough to warrant the decision to stay with a Silverlight platform rather than try and switch to an alternative

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Virtualisation is core and still takes place, VFS and COM is an basic example of this. Which issues are you facing with .ini and .cfg files? I have customers working with Sybase and Oracle software in App-V 5.0 which have both these files types with no issues. It would be great to hear about your issue adding shortcuts as it is definitely not impossible, shortcuts are the same as locally installed applications and just call the application directly from cache? For example many customer create shortcuts via Group Policy or via XenApp, completely independent to the App-V shortcuts inside the package. I'm not trying to defend App-V as a product rather understand what limitations you are actually referring to as a lot of the points you raised I have either never heard of or I am failing to understand what you actually mean.

  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2012
    OMG this looks so good :P

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2012
    i played around with v5 beta and very earger to test this RTM version out.

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2013
    Actually App-v 5.0 is worse then 4.6. Why microsoft calls it virtualisation is a mystery to me. It is not. The applications gets published to a fixed location on the client system. Any application which uses config files (like ini's or cfg's) will have lots of problems running. Try adding a shortcut. it is impossible since it is not inside the appv package file but is located in the xml. As a result any tool which will call for the appv package file will not see those shortcuts. In short. App-v 5.0 is a big nightmare and I would not recommend using it until Microsoft gets it act together. technically it might be a very nice tool. But funcionally it is a nightmare

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2014
    These are Good Comparison and better understand the difference between both releases.
    Thank you
    PKB

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2014
    Good Comparison.. nice overview of all the main features that have changed from the previous version...Thanks