App-V 5.0: howto deploy packages to laptops and make sure they are loaded for offline usage?

Question

Hi,
We would like to make sure App-v packages distributed on laptops fully load the (App-V) applications offline.
This way we can make sure when they are on the road they don't need network to load their applications.
How this can be done?
J.
Jan Hoedt

Answer 1

Thanks, I do see 2 options indeed: Download content from distribution point and run locally, then stream content from distribution point.
3 more questions:
*(not tested yet can check that asap) won't (download from ...) just download when the application is launched?
*stream content, will it stream each time and not download anything?
*there is also the option "persist content in client cache", which you can check even if you enable "stream content", that's somewhat confusing, what does that do then?
J.
Jan Hoedt
Jan,
Note there are two areas of concern here when talking about caching. The CCMcache folder where the application is downloaded to and the ProgramData\App-V folder where the actually
application is published (think of it as the installation folder) this is commonly referred to as the App-V cache.
1. As Peter says 'It will download when the application is "installed".'
2. Stream content means that only the xml files will download to the ccmcache folder and not the rest of the appv file
- this is seperate to the App-V cache mentioned above (i.e. ProgramData\App-V folder). Content will still be published to the ProgramData\App-V folder and the streaming or offlining of this is controlled by the Stored Content Store. If you enable SCS then
content published to the ProgramData\App-V folder will be FB0 and no other data will be cached offline, whilst disabling SCS means that the whole app will be offlined to ProgramData\App-V which is what you want to do.
3. This will keep the data persisting in the ccmcache. 
Hope this helps.
Cheers
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