You may run into an unusual issue when running a virtualized sequence of Cygwin under Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).  The application will sequence correctly and launch both during the Monitoring phase and the Launch phase, however...

Just an FYI on a new Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Knowledge Base article we published today.  If you're having trouble running virtualized apps on your clients and getting something along the lines of Error Code: xxxxxxx-xxxxxx2A...

Just a quick note that we published a new Knowledge Base article today that documents the supported command line options for the Microsoft App-V 4.5 Management Server. I'm not going to duplicate it all here but if you want to check it out see the following...

Yesterday I got an interesting email from a Mr. Tom Torggler regarding a Microsoft App-V issue he was experiencing when he tried to stream a package with Configuration Manager 2007.  If he set the advertisement to “Stream virtual applications from...

Just a quick FYI that we just published revised detection logic for Microsoft App-V 4.5 Service Pack 2 (SP2) so that Microsoft Update/WSUS will not offer the App-V 4.5 SP2 update if you do not have Microsoft Application Error Reporting installed on the...

When you use the Refresh Server option to refresh a Publishing Server from the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Client MMC snap-in, you may receive the following error message: The Application Virtualization Client could not update publishing...

When you use the Refresh Server option to refresh a Publishing Server from the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Client MMC snap-in, you may receive the following error message: The Application Virtualization Client could not update publishing...

An application on a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) client may fail to launch with the following error: The Application Virtualization Client could not launch application name. The specified Application Virtualization Server could not be...

I know this isn’t necessarily specific to App-V but I wanted to let you know of a new support offering that we're rolling out. I am sure many of you have contacted Microsoft for support in the past and are aware of our various support offerings. We have...

Our very own Steve Bucci , resident Support Escalation Engineer extraordinaire, recently posted another great video he put together that shows you how to troubleshoot and correct some common configuration mistakes by guiding you through the areas to double...

If you have installed the Microsoft App-V Management Pack and are wondering why System Center Operations Manager 2007 has failed to detect and to monitor these servers as App-V Servers, then it may be because you have installed App-V 4.5 on an x64 system...

Just an FYI on a KB we published today.  If you try installing the App-V server and get error 25100 or 25109 then take a look at this one: Symptoms When you attempt to install the Application Virtualization 4.5 Management Server either through a...

Here's another heads up on a new App-V Knowledge Base article we published.  this one talks about an issue where you may get Error 80070643 when trying to install App-V 4.5 SP2 via Microsoft Update: ===== Symptoms You receive an "Error 80070643"...

Because I have received many questions about App-V with HTTP, I decided to create an article to describe the process and the underlying theory of this deployment method. From an App-V point of view, this deployment method is not too complicated, but there...

During the sequencing process of Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Service Pack 2 (SP2) using the Microsoft App-V 4.6 sequencer you may get the following error: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side...

The Microsoft App-V product group is conducting an online discussion on June 10, 2010 and June 15,2010 aimed at naming features in the future versions of App-V and is recruiting IT professionals. Call to action: Click the following URL and complete our...

I saw that the WSUS product team announced a new product category for App-V 4.5 and figured you might like a heads up about it here.  To quote the product team: "We will be adding a new product family to your WSUS server – Microsoft Application...

Recently we announced MDOP 2010 including App-V 4.6 and MED-V v1 SP1 and the feedback has been great! As customers make the leap from traditional applications to leverage virtualization to optimize their desktops, they are looking for ways to streamline...

If you are running Microsoft App-V in what is now referred to as a traditional App-V Server-based infrastructure, desktop configuration is controlled by an App-V Management Server. Depending on local client configuration and provider policy, the client...

As I'm sure everyone is aware of by now, Microsoft App-V 4.5 SP2 was released last week and is now available for download, but what about the documentation that goes along with it?  Well you can rest assured that our writers have been all over this...

  This whitepaper discusses the benefits, configurations and considerations when planning a Microsoft® Windows Server® Remote Desktop Services solution with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App‑V®), and while I could probably write up a big...

Looks like the good folks over on the MDOP blog just announced the immediate availability of Microsoft App-V 4.5 SP2: App-V 4.5 Service Pack 2  provides the latest updates to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 code line. This is the first time...

Often, App-V administrators will leverage multiple App-V Management Servers sharing a common database. The process usually involves pointing additional server to the existing SQL server and database during installation. Key databases values that govern...

The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V enables Office 2010 client products to be sequenced and deployed with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is required for sequencing and deploying...

Our very own Steve Bucci recently posted this great video that shows you how to collect the logs and information from your App-V environment. With almost any App-V support call we will ask you for this information but knowing where to find these logs...