The Official Microsoft App-V Team Blog
Your official source for all the latest news and tech tips for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).
New App-V Knowledge Base articles for 12-7 through 12-20
For the week of 12-7 through 12-20 we had eleven new App-V Knowledge Base articles. Links and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/06/2009
MSI based virtual apps may only create Quick Launch icons for the account used to installed it
With Microsoft App-V 4.5, and with SoftGrid 4.2 along with the MSI utility, we now have the ability...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/05/2009
Icons remain after a user with a mandatory profile is disallowed access to an application
One of the great things about SoftGrid/App-V is that it's so easy to shoot out apps to client...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/18/2008
Application Virtualization Product Team needs your help!
Hi Everyone, The Application Virtualization team would like to get your input and ask you to help us...
Author: genef Date: 12/17/2008
The App-V client installation may fail if there's insufficient free space on the drive for the cache
Here's another issue we saw during the App-V 4.5 beta that you might run across when installing the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/16/2008
Virtualizing Adobe Photoshop 7.x with Microsoft App-V 4.5
Here's another solution from Steve Thomas, our friendly neighborhood App-V beta engineer. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/15/2008
A Streaming Server may fail to restart after being stopped if clients are still connected
Here's another issue we saw a couple times during the App-V 4.5 beta. It's probably something that...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/15/2008
Virtualized Outlook 2007 search feature may not work as designed on Windows Vista clients
Here's another great tip from Steve Thomas, this time concerning the search function in Outlook 2007...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/11/2008
Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition based applications may generate error on first launch
Here's another tip from Steve Thomas, esteemed 4.5 beta engineer. This one involves a specific...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/11/2008
Sequencing Windows Live Applications
Here are some tips on sequencing various Windows Live components that was originally written up by...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/10/2008
Sequencing Apple Safari 3.1
Here's another one we ran across during the Microsoft App-V 4.5 beta. If you're having trouble...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/10/2008
New Knowledge Base articles for 11-30 through 12-6
For the week of 11-30 through 12-6 we had three new Knowledge Base articles on Microsoft...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/09/2008
You receive a 0E-00002015 error when executing a virtual application's OSD for the first time
Here's another tip from Steve Thomas that he found during the 4.5 beta. This is probably not...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/08/2008
How to properly specify the SQL instance during the App-V 4.5 Management Server installation
Here's another App-V 4.5 issue we saw during the beta. This one was written up by Steve Thomas...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/05/2008
How to sequence Microsoft Money 2007
I was browsing through the dark corners of some internal Microsoft App-V doc repositories the other...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/04/2008
New Knowledge Base articles for 11-23 through 11-29
Here are some more KBs for you. For the week of 11-23 through 11-29 we had two new Knowledge...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/03/2008
How to Sequence Visual Studio 2008 in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (App-V)
The App-V team is happy to announce the availability of prescriptive guidance for sequencing Visual...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/01/2008
When launching an App-V application you may receive error XXXXXX-XXXXXX0A-00000121
Here's another odd App-V error you could possibly run into. The first time I read this I...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/20/2008
App-V server install error "The Installation program was unable to create the required IIS virtual directory"
Here's another one turned up by our hard working beta team. If you're installing the server on...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/19/2008
The Application Virtualization 4.5 client may fail to open a Microsoft Office document after completing a Desktop Refresh
Here's an issue our own Michelle Dixon ran into while working on the 4.5 beta. Note that her...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/19/2008
"Invalid mount point specified” error message on App-V 4.5 Command Line Interface (CLI) Sequencer
Here's an issue the the App-V beta team ran into and since I didn't see it documented anywhere else...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/18/2008
Didn't pass that Microsoft Certification exam? Get a free second shot
Just an FYI that Microsoft is offering a free second chance to pass that Microsoft Certification...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/18/2008
The App-V Ping Tool
SoftGridBlog.com just posted about a cool new tool called the App-V Ping Tool. I haven't tried it...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/14/2008
App-V client refresh results in error code: xxxxxx-xxxxxx2A-0000274D
I was talking to App-V Support Engineer John Behneman the other day about some of the more popular...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/13/2008
App-V: "Can't find services.exe" error after clicking Start Monitoring
Here's a great tip from Sebastian Gernert on sequencing on Windows Vista. If you're getting a "Can't...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/13/2008
App-V: Client immediately enters Disconnected Operation mode on startup
In certain SoftGrid/App-V environments, clients may startup and immediately go into Disconnected...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/12/2008
Warning 25017. The installation Program could not create the Active Directory marker object for the server
Here's an issue I've seen pop up a couple times so I thought it would be worth a heads up here. They...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/12/2008
SQL Server 2005 Express is NOT supported for use with SoftGrid/App-V Virtual Application Servers in a production environment
This is the first in what I hope will be a fairly long series of posts covering some of the support...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/11/2008
New Knowledge Base articles for 11-2 through 11-8
We had two new Knowledge Base articles for the week. Links and titles are below: ========...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/11/2008
Interview with Paul Schnell, CTO of AppDNA
The Official MDOP blog posted some cool information about a couple of products from AppDNA. I have...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/11/2008
App-V 4.5 Resource Kit: App-V Application Listing Tool
Today, for the final posting in the series covering the newly released App-V 4.5 Resource Kit, we...
Author: Gjergji Stasa Date: 11/07/2008
News and Support information - Now on Twitter
Hi everyone, just a quick FYI that if you're signed up for Twitter you can now receive Tweets on all...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/06/2008
App-V 4.5 Resource Kit: Application Virtualization Client Log Parser Utility
Visually parsing large log text files can be quite tedious! The client log parser utility helps IT...
Author: Gjergji Stasa Date: 11/06/2008
App-V 4.5 Resource Kit: Application Virtualization SFT Parser Tool
Today's blog post is a continuation of the series covering the 5 resource kit tools released...
Author: Gjergji Stasa Date: 11/05/2008
App-V 4.5 Resource Kit: Application Virtualization Cache Resizing Tool
As we said yesterday, each day of this week we will have different posts covering the different...
Author: Gjergji Stasa Date: 11/04/2008
New Microsoft App-V support roadmap and partnerships announced
Over on the MDOP blog, Jameel Khalfan posted some new announcements regarding the 64-bit support...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/04/2008
New Knowledge Base articles for 10-26 through 11-1
We had eight new Knowledge Base articles on Microsoft Application Virtualization for the week -...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/04/2008
Application Virtualization Dynamic Suite Composition Tool
The dynamic suite composition tool provides a GUI interface that makes it easier to configure...
Author: amont Date: 11/03/2008
Application Virtualization 4.5 Resource Kit Tools Now Available!
The App-V team is happy to announce the general availability of the App-V 4.5 Resource Kit Tools....
Author: amont Date: 11/03/2008
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Now Available
Looking for a way to quickly and easily assess client and server computers for deployment of...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/03/2008
Have you seen the Microsoft Application Virtualization glossary?
Have you ever wanted to know what an App-V term meant but were afraid to ask? I stumbled across this...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/03/2008
Microsoft App-V deployment and management tools
Yesterday must have been The Day Of The Tool as not only did our very own Andrew Montgomery post on...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/30/2008
Application Virtualization 4.5 Documentation update - New white papers available
Just a quick heads up about a couple new white papers that are available for Microsoft Application...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/30/2008
App-V Best Practices Analyzer Now Available!
A sensible question to ask is how you know whether your Streaming Server has settings that result in...
Author: amont Date: 10/29/2008
Error xxxxxx44-00001007 in the SFTLOG.TXT file
Here's a cool tip from Michelle Foley on an issue you may run into if you're using one of our newer...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/29/2008
App-V tools and whitepapers
Looks like over on the MDOP blog Karri Alexion-Tiernan posted some tidbits about the latest App-V...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/28/2008
Updated Knowledge Base articles for 10-19 through 10-25
We have three updated Knowledge Base articles for you this week - titles and links are below:...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/28/2008
Download Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 for Terminal Services today
A while back I posted that Microsoft® Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 for Terminal...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/27/2008
Error 25109: The installation program could not create the configuration data store
So I was perusing the SoftGrid forums the other day and came across an issue a few folks were having...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/23/2008
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 - New Features
EDIT: The chart linked below may contain some inaccurate information. We're working to update this...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/22/2008