Using App-V command lines

Besides working with OSD scripting to scale up our applications deployment, we can use several tools provided by App-V to automate normal processes.

The possibilities regarding the command lines available are pretty much the same as we could use in the App-V client and sequencer console.

In this section of the chapter, we will have a detailed review of what we can accomplish with tools, such as, SFTMIME, SFTSequencer, and SFTTRAY.

Configuring client options with SFTMIME

Among all these tools provided by App-V, SFTMIME is the most powerful. By using this tool, we get the chance to execute all the normal processes of the App-V client that we usually would in the GUI—handle virtual applications, packages, publishing servers, and file type associations.

Since using SFTMIME provides a large set of possibilities; the verbs and parameters used will be plenty. What we need to remember is that the basic syntax of SFTMIME should be as follows:

SFTMIME verb object [parameters]

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