Obtaining the App-V 5 SP3 prerequisites
This recipe shows you how to obtain the prerequisites for an App-V client installation on a Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 client PC.
Getting ready
It is assumed that you have completed the tasks in the previous chapter and configured the DC, FS1, and FS2 servers. In addition, you should provision two client machines, one with Windows 8.1 installed and the other with Windows 7 SP1 installed.
How to do it...
The following list shows you the high-level steps involved in this recipe and the tasks required to complete the recipe. (All of the actions in this recipe will take place on the servers with the hostnames DC and FS1. Note that FS2 must also be running to allow for DFS replication between the hosts.)
- Download the prerequisite installers and store them in a set of subfolders.
- On the server
FS1, build a folder structure as per the following image. Note that the files are contained within the path to theFileStore DFSnamespace that was created in the previous chapter.
- Download the prerequisites (for an up-to-date list, visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn858705.aspx) and store them in the folders created in the previous step, making sure to separate out the 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Note
At the time of writing, .NET Framework 4.5.2 was the latest supported version. For deployment through Group Policy/SCCM, you must use the offline installer, which can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42642.
Although not mentioned on the App-V 5 SP3 documentation, Visual C++ Redistributable 2005 is also a requirement. The relevant version can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26347.
Finally, update KB2533623 for Windows 7 computers is available through Windows Update. If your computers are using Windows Update with the default settings, it is likely that this update is already deployed on your machines.