Creating 64-Bit App-V Packages

AdminStudio 2025 | 29.0 | Automated Application Converter

AdminStudio supports converting 64-bit applications into Microsoft App-V 4.6 and 5.x package formats, which can be deployed on Windows 64-bit systems with Microsoft App-V 64-bit clients installed. This process can be a direct conversion from a 64-bit Windows Installer package or one involving repackaging on a 64-bit machine.

Note:Automated Application Converter converts 64-bit packages to App-V 4.6 and converts non-64-bit packages to App-V 4.5 to increase the backwards compatibility of the package. 64-bit application support was the main new feature of App-V 4.6.

Note:App-V 4.5 packages created using earlier versions of AdminStudio can be made compatible with App-V 4.6. In some cases, it may be necessary to manually edit the .osd files to specify support for 64-bit operating systems.

Important:It is highly recommended that you perform the conversion of 64-bit Windows Installer packages to App-V packages on a Windows 64-bit machine. If you attempt conversion on a 32-bit Windows machine, it could result in a failure to extract COM information for 64-bit binaries. Also, in some cases, Windows Installer packages contain shortcuts that target executables not found in the package itself. If these shortcuts target executables found in 64-bit Windows folder locations, then these shortcuts will not be handled correctly on 32-bit machines.