


Using a computer startup PowerShell script assigned via Group Policy to the OU where the servers earmarked for the customer’s applications resided, I came up with a robust mechanism which would install the applications during boot. Unfortunately, we hit a number of issues with the AppDisk technology which meant that we had to seek an alternative way of delivering these applications.

Given that they did not have App-V packaging skills, so weekly repackaging would have been cost prohibitive, we looked at using Citrix AppDisks so that we could hand Server 2012R2 virtual machines over to the customer with AppDisks in write mode, let them install and test their apps and then hand them back to us for sealing and promotion to UAT and thence Production. Whilst designing a XenApp 7.x infrastructure for a customer, a requirement surfaced that they wanted to be able to update their in-house developed applications, of which there were three separate ones, written by three separate teams, on a weekly basis.
