Today, on the MDOP blog, we made some exciting announcements: · App-V 4.5 CU1 is immediately available for testing App-V on the Windows 7 Beta! · Nominations for the App-V 4.6 TAP will be opening soon on the Microsoft Connect site! Among other things...

App-V 4.5 includes a great feature: file streaming. This is a super-easy, lightweight way to get an application published and loaded for use on an App-V client. There are no server or network pre-requisites required so it’s a very low overhead way to...

When you use the SFTMIME command within scripts or batch files, it is important to understand that console redirection of output in App-V 4.5 has changed from previous versions.  For example, let's say you do the following: 1. From a 4.5 version...

Last week we published one new Knowledge Base article on Microsoft Application Virtualization.  This one describes a hotfix package for January 2009 that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5.  For...

Publishing Refresh Request is one of the main reasons why we have an App-V Management Server.  Since clients send these requests many times (especially on Monday mornings :-) ), you may interested in learning what is going on at the server side during...

Here's another cool webcast we have coming up on client side virtualization using application virtualization, desktop virtualization, and presentation virtualization, including a discussion on when it is appropriate to use each technology.  If you...

Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Sebastian Gernert, one of our hard working App-V Support Engineers across the pond in the glorious land of Germany.  This one is about an issue you may run into when Microsoft Word is virtualized...

Here's another issue uncovered by our very own Steve Thomas during the App-V 4.5 beta, this one involving a misleading error you might get if the client cache is full:   Issue: When an application is unable to load because the cache is full, you...