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title: Managing Connection Groups
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# Managing Connection Groups


Connection groups enable the applications within a package to interact with each other in the virtual environment, while remaining isolated from the rest of the system. By using connection groups, administrators can manage packages independently and can avoid having to add the same application multiple times to a client computer.

**Note**  
In previous versions of App-V 5.0, connection groups were referred to as Dynamic Suite Composition.

 

**In this topic:**

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<td align="left"><p><a href="about-the-connection-group-virtual-environment.md" data-raw-source="[About the Connection Group Virtual Environment](about-the-connection-group-virtual-environment.md)">About the Connection Group Virtual Environment</a></p></td>
<td align="left"><p>Describes the connection group virtual environment.</p></td>
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<td align="left"><p><a href="about-the-connection-group-file.md" data-raw-source="[About the Connection Group File](about-the-connection-group-file.md)">About the Connection Group File</a></p></td>
<td align="left"><p>Describes the connection group file.</p></td>
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<td align="left"><p><a href="how-to-create-a-connection-group.md" data-raw-source="[How to Create a Connection Group](how-to-create-a-connection-group.md)">How to Create a Connection Group</a></p></td>
<td align="left"><p>Explains how to create a new connection group.</p></td>
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<td align="left"><p><a href="how-to-create-a-connection-group-with-user-published-and-globally-published-packages.md" data-raw-source="[How to Create a Connection Group with User-Published and Globally Published Packages](how-to-create-a-connection-group-with-user-published-and-globally-published-packages.md)">How to Create a Connection Group with User-Published and Globally Published Packages</a></p></td>
<td align="left"><p>Explains how to create a new connection group that contains a mix of packages that are published to the user and published globally.</p></td>
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<td align="left"><p><a href="how-to-delete-a-connection-group.md" data-raw-source="[How to Delete a Connection Group](how-to-delete-a-connection-group.md)">How to Delete a Connection Group</a></p></td>
<td align="left"><p>Explains how to delete a connection group.</p></td>
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<td align="left"><p><a href="how-to-publish-a-connection-group.md" data-raw-source="[How to Publish a Connection Group](how-to-publish-a-connection-group.md)">How to Publish a Connection Group</a></p></td>
<td align="left"><p>Explains how to publish a connection group.</p></td>
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## Other resources for App-V 5.0 connection groups


-   [Operations for App-V 5.0](operations-for-app-v-50.md)