What is App-V Unattended Installer?!

Simply, it’s a combination of Windows PowerShell scripts running behind a simple GUI wizard that requires the user to input a couple of few elements and does all the necessary steps and configurations to setup App-V Server 4.6 SP1 according to “Microsoft App-V 4.6 SP1 Trial Guide“.

How to use it?!

As mentioned above, App-V Unattended Installer does all the installation and configuration from A to Z. So, you don’t have to install any pre-requisites before you use it. All you need is a Domain-Joined machine running just Windows Server 2008 R2.

Now, let start building the App-V environment by following the steps below:

1- After you download the App-V Unattended Installer, execute the AppVinstaller.exe

2- Once you launch the wizard you will be 3 steps away from your new App-V environment. Click Start to go to the first step.

3- In the first step you select the sources required for your step. We have 4 inputs (sources) required for this step.

– SQL Server 2008 R2: Make sure to use Std. or Ent. edition.

– App-V Server 4.6

– App-V PowerShell Snap-in:

– App-V Virtual Package: If you have any ready made sequenced app-v package, you can select it and the wizard will import it during the installation.

4- In the second step you enter the Active Directory configuration and the Credentials to be used by the wizard to do the installation.

Active Directory:

– App-V OU: The name of Organization Unit (OU) that will contain App-V Users and Group.

– App-V Admin Group: The name of App-V Administrators Group.

– App-V Users Group: The name of App-V Users Group.

Credentials:

Enter a domain-admin credentials that will be used during the installation. You will not be able to proceed until you validate you credentials and make sure that you entered a valid username and password, and you account the part of Domain-Admin group.

5- The 3rd step is the last step where the wizard start the installation and configurations part. This step takes around 30 – 45 minutes to do the following:

– Create the required Active Directory Users and Groups

– Install and Configure IIS

– Install and Configure SQL Server

– Install and Configure App-V Server

– Import and Configure App-V Applications

6- After the installation, complete simply click Finish to close the wizard

Now, your app-v environment is up and running with all your virtual application and packages imported and configured. In order to validate you installation, install and configure App-V client on any other machine and try to connect to the server and launch your applications from the client’s machine.

Cmdlets

System Options

• Get-AppVSystemOptions

• Set-AppVSystemOptions

Packages

• Get-AppVPackages

• New-AppVPackage

• Remove-AppVPackage

Application Groups

• Get-AppVApplicationGroup

• New-AppVApplicationGroup

• Remove-AppVApplicationGroup

Applications

• Get-AppVApplications

• New-AppVApplication

• Remove-AppVApplication

• Set-AppVApplicationPublishingSettings

Administrators

• Get-AppVAdministrators

• New-AppVAdministrator

• Remove-AppVAdministrator

Server Groups

• Get-AppVServerGroup

• New-AppVServerGroup

• Remove-AppVServerGroup

Servers

• Get-AppVServers

• New-AppVServer

• Remove-AppVServer

Providers

• Get-AppVProviders

• Remove-AppVProvider

للتحميل و طريقة الإستخدام: Microsoft App-V Server SnapIn

• Windows PowerShell v3.0
• WMI
• WinRM

للتحميل: Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP #1

PowerStudio متاح للتحميل على Visual Studio Gallery

gci HKLM:\Software\Classes -ea 0| ? {$_.PSChildName -match '^\w+\.\w+$' -and (gp "$($_.PSPath)\CLSID" -ea 0)} | Out-GridView

للأمانة العلمية، السكربت منقول من احد المنتديات في الرد على أحد الأسئلة دون ذكر إسمه المؤلف .. في حالة معرفة إسم المؤلف برجاء إرساله لنتمكن من إضافته للموضوع

الهدف من AutoSPInstaller هو تحميل و تخزين جميع الملفات المطلوبة او ما يسمي prerequisites من Windows Update و Hotfix و Software على الكمبيوتر الشخصي او السيرفر حني نتمكن من تركيب SharePoint اوفلاين و بدون الحاجة إلي انترنت وتوفير الوقت الضائع في تحميل هذه الملفات كل مرة نقوم بتركيب SharePoint.

رابط التحميل AutoSPInstaller

في المثال ده هنستخدم Membership.GeneratePassword وهي Method مسئولة عن إنشاء Complex Password بشكل عشوائي و التي من الممكن ان تستخدم في عمليه إنشاء مستخدمين Exchange و Active Directory

# namespace: System.Web.Security
# assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
# method:    GeneratePassword(int length, int numberOfNonAlphanumericCharacters)

#Load "System.Web" assembly in PowerShell console
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")

#Calling GeneratePassword Method
[System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(10,0)

2011 Scripting Games

غداَ إن شاء الله هو اليوم الأول في دورة Scripting Games السنوية. تبدأ الدورة يوم 4/4/2011 وتنتهي يوم 15/4/2011.

تحتوي الدورة على مجموعة كبيرة من الإلعاب و التصنيفات لجميع الفئات المبتدئين والمحترفين.

تساعد الدورة في إكتساب بعض المهارات العملية في كتابة السكربت  بالإضافة إلي بعض الجوائز القيمة للمتسابقين.

http://2011SG.Poshcode.Org