Creating and handling package accelerators

One of the newest features in App-V 4.6 SP1 is the package accelerator, which appeared in order to help the App-V community share knowledge and common best practices for applications sequencing.

What is a package accelerator?

Package accelerators represent a fast way to accomplish the sequencing of any given application by using the configuration files saved previously by a sequencer professional. These files can be used to rapidly create a new version of the sequenced application, saving a lot of time in the customization of this app.

Before package accelerators, sequencing a particular (most likely, complex) application and sharing that knowledge with the community implied that we write down that process in a detailed way, called an App-V recipe. These recipes are usually found in Microsoft TechNet and other App-V community forums.

A package accelerator is nothing more than a CAB file containing the following files:

• SPRJ

• OSD

• Manifest file for this particular...