Skip to content

Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage

SYNOPSIS

Retrieves packages from the AppVentiX content shares.

SYNTAX

All (Default)

Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage [-IncludeDependencies] [-ListOnly] [-CachePackages]
 [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [-ConfigShare <string>] [<CommonParameters>]

Named

Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage [-MachineGroupFriendlyName <string>] [-IncludeDependencies]
 [-ListOnly] [-CachePackages] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [-ConfigShare <string>] [<CommonParameters>]

ALIASES

This cmdlet has the following aliases,

DESCRIPTION

The Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage function scans the content shares configured for machine groups and retrieves information about App-V (.appv), MSIX (.msix), and connection group (.appg) packages. It returns package details including name, version, publisher, and connection group membership.

Content shares may be SMB paths or 'azure:///[/]' Azure Blob paths. For an Azure content share, manifest reads download each package to a local temp file first (a ZIP archive needs a local, seekable file to open), so scanning many/large packages over an Azure content share is slower than over SMB.

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage Retrieves all packages from all machine group content shares.

EXAMPLE 2

Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage -MachineGroupFriendlyName 'Production' Retrieves packages from the content shares of the 'Production' machine group.

EXAMPLE 3

Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage -IncludeDependencies Retrieves all packages including those in Dependencies folders.

EXAMPLE 4

Get-AppVentiXContentStorePackage -ListOnly Lists Type/Filename/Fullname for every package without opening any manifests.

PARAMETERS

-CachePackages

(Optional) When specified, package manifest identity fields are cached in memory for the duration of the PowerShell session and reused on subsequent calls, avoiding a re-read of packages that have not changed. The cache is keyed on the file name together with its last write time and size, so a repackaged file (new content) is always re-read, and identical files synced across multiple content shares are only read once. The cache is module-scoped (not accessible outside the module) and is cleared when the module is reimported. Off by default.

Type: System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter
DefaultValue: False
SupportsWildcards: false
Aliases: []
ParameterSets:
- Name: (All)
  Position: Named
  IsRequired: false
  ValueFromPipeline: false
  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName: false
  ValueFromRemainingArguments: false
DontShow: false
AcceptedValues: []
HelpMessage: ''

-ConfigShare

Specifies the path to the AppVentiX configuration share. You can omit this parameter if the configuration store was already set with Set-AppVentiXConfigShare, or when it can be detected automatically (for example on a machine where AppVentiX Central View is installed and configured).

Type: System.String
DefaultValue: $Script:AppVentiX.ConfigShare
SupportsWildcards: false
Aliases: []
ParameterSets:
- Name: Named
  Position: Named
  IsRequired: false
  ValueFromPipeline: false
  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName: false
  ValueFromRemainingArguments: false
- Name: All
  Position: Named
  IsRequired: false
  ValueFromPipeline: false
  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName: false
  ValueFromRemainingArguments: false
DontShow: false
AcceptedValues: []
HelpMessage: ''

-IncludeDependencies

(Optional) When specified, includes packages located in Dependencies folders. By default, dependency packages are excluded from the results.

Type: System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter
DefaultValue: False
SupportsWildcards: false
Aliases: []
ParameterSets:
- Name: (All)
  Position: Named
  IsRequired: false
  ValueFromPipeline: false
  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName: false
  ValueFromRemainingArguments: false
DontShow: false
AcceptedValues: []
HelpMessage: ''

-ListOnly

(Optional) When specified, only lists what is present (Type, Filename, Fullname, MachineGroup, LastUpdated) - manifests are not opened and connection groups are not resolved, so Name/Version/Publisher/PackageId/VersionId/MemberOf stay empty. This skips every manifest/connection-group read (for an Azure content share, the per-package temp download too), so it is much faster when you only need to see what packages exist.

Type: System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter
DefaultValue: False
SupportsWildcards: false
Aliases: []
ParameterSets:
- Name: (All)
  Position: Named
  IsRequired: false
  ValueFromPipeline: false
  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName: false
  ValueFromRemainingArguments: false
DontShow: false
AcceptedValues: []
HelpMessage: ''

-MachineGroupFriendlyName

(Optional) Specifies the friendly name of the machine group to retrieve packages from. If not specified, packages from all machine groups are retrieved.

Type: System.String
DefaultValue: All Machine Groups
SupportsWildcards: false
Aliases:
- FriendlyName
ParameterSets:
- Name: Named
  Position: Named
  IsRequired: false
  ValueFromPipeline: false
  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName: false
  ValueFromRemainingArguments: false
DontShow: false
AcceptedValues: []
HelpMessage: ''

-ThrottleLimit

(Optional) Specifies the maximum number of package manifests to read concurrently from the content share. Reading a manifest opens the package archive over the (usually remote) share, so scanning is network-latency bound and benefits from parallelism. Defaults to 16. Increase on high-latency shares; decrease to reduce load on the file server.

Type: System.Int32
DefaultValue: 16
SupportsWildcards: false
Aliases: []
ParameterSets:
- Name: (All)
  Position: Named
  IsRequired: false
  ValueFromPipeline: false
  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName: false
  ValueFromRemainingArguments: false
DontShow: false
AcceptedValues: []
HelpMessage: ''

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutBuffer, -OutVariable, -PipelineVariable, -ProgressAction, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

INPUTS

OUTPUTS