If you are reading about App-V Scheduler for the first time: App-V Scheduler is a purpose build App-V 5 deployment tool specially designed for virtual workloads like RDS\XenApp and VDI environments. The power of App-V Scheduler is the amount of fine grained control, instant package delivery and real-time visibility over your App-V 5 deployment. To name some advantages of App-V Scheduler :

• Support for both persistent and non-persistent environments (Citrix PVS\MCS integration)
• Advanced cache management (Cleanup, auto balance cache with source and selectively pre-cache packages)
• Improve application launch time with virtual registry pre-staging and application pre-launch feature
• Packages and Connection groups available at machine startup and ongoing through deploy cycle
• Complete application life cycle management; from instantly deploying packages to draining and retire applications
• Update packages while they are in use without rebooting the machine and while users are logged on
• Real-Time (portable) remote management console (inventory, manage and central configuration)
• No App-V full infra components needed (dramatically simplify your deployment)

For more information about the 2.4 release and about previous released versions, please visit the App-V Scheduler website and read the latest release blogpost.