I am trying to figure out how to use svservice.exe atatch appstackname to attach an appstack from an icon on desktop similar to testdrive demo in youtube by Rory Clements.

[mba1]

I created a very simple app stack with no spaces or unusual characters in the name. 
I opened a command prompt as local admin and typed   SVSERVICE.EXE ATTACH appstackname  
It tries to connect but the attach fails.   Any idea why?

I really want to use this as a demo by tomorrow so I would appreciate any help the forum can provide

[Ray_handels]

Why not assign it using the Appvolumes manager?? Then it just goes automatically..

[mba1]

There are very good advantages doing it this way. 
1) You may have a user who has many app stacks but only use some or few of them everyday.  This way we are not attaching 6-10 app stacks per user at 9am

2) You can even have multiple versions of an app attaching and detaching which is great for dev environment

3) It is a fantastic demo

4) Great for customer putting together an app catalog

5) Don't even have to assign the app stack to the user

6) reduces the number of attachment during logon storm

7) I can use UEM to create the icon and also get very accurate stats on usage

I can probably think of a few other reasons but it is damn useful feature.   Now I am going to try a few other things to get this working.
I believe it has to do with the user requiring local admin privilege that I can provide with UEM.  
Meanwhile if anyone has done this and can document the requirement please come forward...

[touimet]

This sounds very interesting.  mba1​ were you ever able to figure it out?

[sjesse]

I hate that demo, personally, I've had a lot of problems attaching app stacks immediately. I think that demo used something like this if you want to try it.

https://chrisdhalstead.net/2015/10/09/vmware-app-volumes-self-service-utility/

[Sravan_k]

I agree with you, if we are attaching appstacks immediately it will cause issues

and yes user need elevated rights to do it

Note: for simple applications like notepad++ and browsers it was very good idea but not like applications SSMS and so on

Regards,

Vkmr.