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Pro’s and Con’s – App-V shared content store in a Citrix PVS environment

Posted on January 10, 2013 by johncmorrissey

So advantages with shared content as i see it:  –          Disk space – by replacing all the binaries with these small pointers it hugely saves on vDisk image space –          Will make copies across your DC’s faster as the vDisk image is … Continue reading →

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How to add/update your App-V shared content store on a Provisioning Services (PVS) vDisk using vDisk management Update Feature

Posted on January 3, 2013 by johncmorrissey

In App-V 5.0 there comes a new feature or rather an iteration of a previous one (shared cache).Shared Content Store (simple to setup – see here for instructions http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualvibes/archive/2012/10/24/introducing-shared-content-store-in-app-v-5-0-goodbye-shared-read-only-cache.aspx) in App-V 5.0 allows us to stream directly from a content … Continue reading →

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