Integrating Dynamic Environment Manager with Microsoft App-V

You can manage the profile information for App-V-enabled applications with Dynamic Environment Manager.

You can decouple personal application settings from the App-V 5.x redirected storage locations.

Using App-V 5.x, all personalization changes are stored in redirected locations in the user profile. With Dynamic Environment Manager you can restore and save the personalization when an application starts and closes, which removes the need to use redirected storage locations and provides roaming capabilities without depending on traditional roaming profiles.

When using Dynamic Environment Manager with Microsoft App-V, you can migrate user application settings from an installed instance to a virtual instance. When moving from traditional installations, such as .MSI to App-V-enabled, sequenced applications, users lose their personal application settings because the settings are stored in the native location of their Windows user profile. If you are using Dynamic Environment Manager in this situation, you can migrate the settings you specify to the App-V-enabled applications. You can also run Windows XP with .MSI installations and migrate to Windows 7 with App-V-enabled applications.

You can also enable ThinApp 5.2 support. When you are using ThinApp, only the packages created using ThinApp 5.2 can be used with DirectFlex. The configured DirectFlex executable path must be the virtual executable, not the ThinApp entry point.

Using a single, transparent approach to manage all user and application settings is efficient in situations where you use different deployment solutions and users work on different Windows platforms, for example, when users are connecting to remote desktops on terminal servers or VDI and are also working on traditional desktops. With Dynamic Environment Manager, you can also manage user settings for both virtual and installed applications in the same way.

When managing user settings for App-V-enabled applications, it is necessary to restore and save these settings at application start and exit, as registry and file information does not apply for the virtual environment these applications run in.