If you've ever found yourself having to troubleshoot some sort of software related issue then you know that being able to get a log file can be incredibly helpful. With Microsoft Application Virtualization it's no different. There are two primary logs...

Hello Everyone, I’d like to address a scenario our customers ask us if it’s supported on a regular basis. Just to provide some context as we talk through the scenario, I’d like to first be clear there are two actions that need to occur on...

Overview This post provides general instructions for sequencing Microsoft Office 2007 and multiple languages in order to deploy each language separately from the main package. The outcome of these sequencing steps will provide a minimum of two packages...

I was going through some of the issues we saw during the 4.5 beta and came across another one I thought you might find interesting.  This is one where the installation of the App-V client will fail with the following error: "Installation operation...

When you are running a sequenced version of Microsoft Office 2007 on Terminal Server clients running SoftGrid 4.1 or App-V 4.5, you may notice intermittent performance related issues. Often these issues will disappear upon reboot but will gradually begin...

I was going over some of the issues our SoftGrid/App-V support folks have been getting recently and I came across this client install issue that I thought some of you might be interested in hearing about.  This one involves getting 1642, 1606 and...

If I had to vote for what I thought was the single most common question I get on Microsoft App-V I think I'd have to vote for "When's 64-bit support coming?"  Actually that's my 'sanitized' version of the question but you get the idea. ...

If you've been using SoftGrid or App-V for a while then you probably already know all the cool things you can do using the SFTMIME utility .  You can load apps, delete apps, configure certain settings, and so on, but if you run SFTMIME on Windows...

If you sequence enough applications in either SoftGrid or MS App-V you'll eventually run into the issue where your sequenced package is too large to be saved.  We're limited to a 4GB file size so if you have an application that is large enough, or...

With Microsoft App-V 4.5, and with SoftGrid 4.2 along with the MSI utility , we now have the ability to create and distribute standalone virtual apps that require no server or streaming infrastructure whatsoever.  While this gives tremendous flexibility...

We had one new App-V Knowledge Base article last week.  It was KB959834 and it describes Hotfix Package 2 which addresses these issues: For more information and to download the package see the link below: ======== KB959834 - Hotfix Package 2 for...

We had one new Knowledge Base article last week.  This one describes a hotfix that you'll need in order to successfully virtualize VS2008 so if this is in your future be sure to check out this KB first: ======== KB960012 - You cannot sequence Visual...

For the week of 12-7 through 12-20 we had eleven new App-V Knowledge Base articles.  Links and titles are below: ======== KB960782 - When upgrading to Vista SP2 from XP, you may get an Application Compatibility Warning for the Microsoft Application...

If you've been playing around with the new Windows 7 beta then you may already be familiar with a new feature in the product called Federated Search.  If not, Federated Search allows you to initiate searches against remote repositories and have the...

Folks, The App-V team would like to get your input to help us plan for our next App-V release ! Our Ask: We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete the survey below. Please include your contact information if you wish...