"Remove this virtual application when it is no longer advertised" - 2012 alternative?

[JacobE]

Hi all,

 

Cast your mind back to 2007 and the virtual application deployments within it...it had this handy toolbox called "Remove this virtual application when it is no longer advertised"

 

Where the fudge has this gone in 2012? It was perfect for us, and now without it it's causing us a whole host of issues, especially when it comes to licensing with our Virtual Apps.

 

Mainly what is happening is user A will login to a meeting room PC to host a meeting or one at our DR site for a DR test and the app ofcourse gets downloaded to their machine they're using. So now they have 3 copies of it and as far as the license true up is concerned, is using 3 licenses of it.

 

We could obviously setup device affinity, but the problem is then in the case of a DR situation nobody would have their apps follow them to whatever random desktop machines the user ends up sitting at.

 

So what we need is the virtual application to remove itself off of machines when the users access is removed (say if they leave for example) and if they haven't logged into the machine for X amount of days.

 

Can anyone think of a way of doing this? I've been doing some research and found this http://blogs.technet.com/b/gladiatormsft/archive/2013/05/22/app-v-and-cm-2012-grrrrrrrr-where-did-remove-this-virtual-application-when-it-is-no-longer-advertised-go.aspx- which explains about an uninstall query which is fine but it will only run once per user, so if a user accesses a meeting room machine half a dozen times in a year it will only run once.

 

Here is a technet link my colleague created - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1a8ee1a1-f8d7-4d1c-b322-701a95524220/removing-appv-applications-when-the-usermachine-is-no-longer-a-member-of-part-of-an-ad-group?forum=configmanagerapps- this helps explain our issue further.

 

TIA

Jake