Notice: PackageStoreAccessControl (PSAC) will be deprecated in App-V 5.0 SP2

Effective immediately, the PackageStoreAccessControl (PSAC) feature that was introduced in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is being deprecated in both single-user and multi-user environments.

The PSAC feature has been unsupported in multi-user environments since the first hotfix package for App-V 5.0 SP2, however  PSAC deployment in single-user environments has been supported until now. If you have deployed PSAC to single-user environments, remove the configuration option from any deployments

The scope of application entitlement enforcement in App-V will be reviewed and addressed as appropriate in a future release.

To address App-V application entitlement concerns, you can leverage the following features available today in App-V 5.0 SP2:

- By default, the location in Windows where App-V stores applications, %ProgramData%, is a hidden folder that most users will not understand how to browse. You can use this hidden folder with the “Pending Unpublish” feature in App-V 5.0 SP2 to alleviate some of the entitlement concerns.

- To prevent your end users from copying shortcuts and executables from the Program Data folder, consider the following:

• User-copied shortcuts cannot be used to launch an App-V application if the user is not entitled to the package.
• Copying executables from Program Data won’t allow users to run the application outside of an App-V environment, except for simple applications without any subsystems or integration.

The App-V 5.0 Team

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