The Official Microsoft App-V Team Blog
Your official source for all the latest news and tech tips for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).
App-V 4.6 Public Beta now available for download
Big news! The MDOP product team just announced the immediate availability of the Microsoft...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/03/2009
Understanding the Autoload Feature of Microsoft App-V 4.5
Understanding the autoload feature is important for those users either new to App-V in general or...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/28/2009
Jumping on the Facebook bandwagon
I was looking around Facebook the other day and thought “Wow, there sure are a lot of companies out...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/22/2009
A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB973366
As part of our efforts to help you be more successful with our products, we’ve published a new...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/13/2009
CLI Sequencer - Creating New Package
My name is Victor Dubinsky and I am a Test Engineer at Microsoft working on Sequencer. Once of my...
Author: genef Date: 07/07/2009
Opening Visio documents from a SharePoint site using Edit in Microsoft Visio may fail with App-V
On an App-V 4.5 client that is running a sequenced (virtualized) version of Microsoft Visio 2003,...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/29/2009
A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB969564
At Microsoft we are continually receiving feedback from customers and improving our products, and as...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/24/2009
Circular dependencies with Dynamic Suite Composition and App-V 4.5
If you’ve been using App-V and it’s cool Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) feature for a while then...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/22/2009
A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB969774
As you know, at Microsoft we are continually receiving feedback from customers and improving our...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/02/2009
What is the App-V IgnoredApps key and why should I be aware of it?
The IgnoredApps key is used to mark an inconsistency between a locally-cached .OSD file which is...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/28/2009
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Is Architecting the Virtual Application Infrastructure
Here’s an FYI on a cool webcast we’re hosting next week on how Microsoft is architecting their App-V...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/27/2009
App-V in Learning Mode This Week
Pictured from left to right: Michael Bilodeau, Sandy Gotlib, Scott Stearns, Lidiane Souza, Nidhi...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/12/2009
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deploys Application Virtualization
Just an FYI that we’re hosting a webcast on May 26th to discuss how Microsoft uses App-V 4.5 and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/11/2009
How to obtain Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
We’ve had a few support calls on this so I wanted to send out a friendly reminder on how to obtain...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/06/2009
A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB970831
We had a new Microsoft Application Virtualization KB article published last week. This one is...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/05/2009
Resolving a couple common SoftGrid/App-V Management Console issues
I had a support call on this the other day and realized that there really isn’t a good blog...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/30/2009
So how many blogs does Microsoft have?
Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs. Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/27/2009
Some insight into how SoftGrid and App-V 4.5 handle group policies
I came across an interesting nugget of information about how GPOs are applied in a SoftGrid/App-V...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/23/2009
App-V 4.5 Remote Console Configuration Guide
If you have ever tried to setup an App-V Remote Management Console or upgraded your existing 4.1...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/21/2009
Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 4: Using TechSmith Camtasia Studio Advanced Features
For Part 4 of this series I am going to use the same recording I made in Part 3 with TechSmith...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/09/2009
Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 3: Using TechSmith Camtasia Studio 6.1
Welcome to Part 3 of this series on recording video recipes for documenting your App-V sequences. In...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/08/2009
How to determine the space remaining in the App-V client cache
Have you ever wondered how you can find out how much free space is available in the App-V client...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/06/2009
Effective Sequencing starts before you launch the Sequencer
I had a long discussion with one of my customers this morning about Sequencing Best Practices. As...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/02/2009
Where to find the App-V Documentation
We’ve received some feedback that people may be unfamiliar with the location of the App-V 4.5...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/31/2009
How App-V Uses Your System Drive!
Today, our topic will be files and folders. As you probably already noticed, there is another drive...
Author: genef Date: 03/26/2009
Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 2: Using OfficeLabs Community Clips
In Part 1 of this series I gave you an introduction to the idea of using video to document your...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/25/2009
Potential issue upgrading a package sequenced on SoftGrid 4.2 with the App-V 4.5 Sequencer
Here’s another issue we came across during the 4.5 beta that I thought deserved a mention here since...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/03/2009
Two Announcements Today!
Today, on the MDOP blog, we made some exciting announcements: · App-V 4.5 CU1 is immediately...
Author: amont Date: 02/27/2009
App-V File Streaming Primer
App-V 4.5 includes a great feature: file streaming. This is a super-easy, lightweight way to get an...
Author: amont Date: 02/23/2009
Using output console redirection with SFTMIME in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
When you use the SFTMIME command within scripts or batch files, it is important to understand that...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/19/2009
Hotfix Package 3 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
Last week we published one new Knowledge Base article on Microsoft Application Virtualization. ...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/17/2009
A Story of a Publishing Refresh Request
Publishing Refresh Request is one of the main reasons why we have an App-V Management Server. ...
Author: genef Date: 02/16/2009
TechNet Webcast: Client-Side Virtualization
Here's another cool webcast we have coming up on client side virtualization using application...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/09/2009
Opening a DOC from a SharePoint site may generate an error if Word is virtualized
Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Sebastian Gernert, one of our hard working App-V...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/05/2009
App-V client generates "Could not connect to stream URL" error
Here's another issue uncovered by our very own Steve Thomas during the App-V 4.5 beta, this one...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/02/2009
App-V Usage Survey
Folks, The App-V team would like to get your input to help us plan for our next App-V release! Our...
Author: amont Date: 01/30/2009
App-V client install may fail with error 1603 due to performance counter registration errors
I was going through some of the issues we saw during the 4.5 beta and came across another one I...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/29/2009
Group Policy Object (GPO) upgrade of SoftGrid may fail with Installer errors 1642, 1606 or 1603
I was going over some of the issues our SoftGrid/App-V support folks have been getting recently and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/27/2009
Troubleshooting App-V with log files
If you've ever found yourself having to troubleshoot some sort of software related issue then you...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/26/2009
How can I deploy and manage virtual applications for remote users who never connect to my network (or vpn in)?
Hello Everyone, I’d like to address a scenario our customers ask us if it’s supported on a regular...
Author: genef Date: 01/23/2009
Reducing resource requirements for computers running virtualized Microsoft Office 2007
When you are running a sequenced version of Microsoft Office 2007 on Terminal Server clients running...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/22/2009
Hotfix Package 2 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5: December 2008
We had one new App-V Knowledge Base article last week. It was KB959834 and it describes Hotfix...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/21/2009
Sequencing Microsoft Office 2007 Core with Multiple Language Packs via DSC
Overview This post provides general instructions for sequencing Microsoft Office 2007 and multiple...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/20/2009
Microsoft App-V Federated Search Connector For Windows 7
If you've been playing around with the new Windows 7 beta then you may already be familiar with a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/15/2009
New App-V KB article - Sequencing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
We had one new Knowledge Base article last week. This one describes a hotfix that you'll need...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/14/2009
Running SFTMIME with the LOAD switch on Windows Vista clients
If you've been using SoftGrid or App-V for a while then you probably already know all the cool...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/13/2009
So what's next for App-V?
If I had to vote for what I thought was the single most common question I get on Microsoft App-V I...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/12/2009
Help, my package is too big!
If you sequence enough applications in either SoftGrid or MS App-V you'll eventually run into the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/08/2009