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...

Since Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 we have heard from numerous customers that they would like to deploy it using App-V. This is not feasible with the shipping products. Microsoft will be releasing updates to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and...

The App-V 5.0 Beta Server is made up 3 components – Management Server, Publishing Server and the Management Database. The components are dependent but have varying requirements and actions to have them successfully deployed. The goal of this series...

It is with great enthusiasm that the Microsoft Application Virtualization product team announces the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of App-V 4.5!!! App-V 4.5 represents a huge step forward for the product and is the result of many hours of hard work by...

We tend to see more issues with sequencing Office than any other product so I decided to put together a quick step by step on how I do it. I needed to create another package for another project anyway so figured why not. My hope is that this will give...

This article describes one method that you can use to sequence Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for use with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). The method that is described in this article is not the only possible method. Additionally, you may...

As some of you already know, we shipped the Microsoft Office 2013 Preview App-V package with our App-V 5.0 Beta 2 release in July 2012. We believe that this is a HUGE win for our customers. Over the years, we have received tremendous feedback from our...

By default the App-V Management Server service is configured to run as the Network Service, but what if your company has a policy that requires the use of Service Accounts rather than running services as "Network Service" or "Local System...

Currently some of our customers are reporting that they are having issues running a virtualized App-V application that is started from a network location such as a UNC path or a mapped network drive.  When this occurs they get an application error...

-Adam Kiu | Program Manager, Microsoft Application Virtualization Disclaimer: This article describes the Beta version and does not include the complete list of features in the final product. App-V 5.0 is the largest release since Microsoft acquired the...

<Updated 08/03/2009> If you're familiar with all the cool new features we've put into Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 then you're probably already aware of Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) and how it can really streamline your virtualization...

One of the questions I always seem to get from people new to the SoftGrid product is “Hey J.C., I’m new to this whole SoftGrid thing, so what are some of the errors I might run into once I roll this out?” Well, that’s a great question, and an easy one...

With SoftGrid 4.1 Service Pack 1 and SoftGrid version 4.2 coming up we wanted to share a little information about these releases and what they'll bring to the table. Nothing will be released until we are satisfied with the quality of the code so as always...

Brian Kelly, one of our top gun SoftGrid tech guru's, recently put together a really cool SoftGrid operations guide that covers day-to-day procedures for managing and operating the SoftGrid infrastructure.  Well, I guess technically it would now...

This week I want to go over a few of the best practices for sequencing applications, including a couple Vista specific suggestions now that version 4.2 is released and we fully support sequencing and virtualizing applications on Windows Vista. Each application...

So I was perusing the SoftGrid forums the other day and came across an issue a few folks were having and fortunately the solution as well.  Apparently when installing the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) server component you can run into...

Submit your nomination here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qDdwKbDAXLKrLp9cc4ldXA%3d%3d SoftGrid 4.5 The Microsoft SoftGrid team is currently wrapping up our SoftGrid 4.2 release, but is also already hard at work on our next release...

The Microsoft Application Virtualization team is very excited to announce that our version 4.5 Release Candidate is now available! We’ve been working incredibly hard since the Beta release to bring you the best version of the product to date and we think...

Hi everyone, Mark Stanfill here and today I want to talk about sequencing Intuit QuickBooks 2011.  This article describes one method to sequence Intuit QuickBooks 2011 using the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Sequencer.  This...

Back in October we blogged that the decision had been made to support using App-V to deploy Visual Studio 2010.  We do not yet have an exact date for the availability of this functionality, but we do plan to make it available during the 1 st half...

Recently I came across a request with virtual Office 2010 and SharePoint 2007 where Multiple uploads and Datasheet view were not available. The reason for this was that each component used a plugin in Internet Explorer that was not available during Internet...

As promised, here's part 2 of Brian Kelly's SoftGrid Operations Guide: ====== 3.3 Remove a Specific Application from a SoftGrid Client PC The following procedure describes how to remove a specific application package from the SoftGrid cache on a client...

I recently worked on an interesting issue sequencing Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 and thought you might like hearing what was finally done to resolve it.  Chances are that if you try to sequence FrontPage 2003 you'll run into it, but if you see...

Hello everyone. We are happy to announce some additional guidance on Sequencing with Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization from our friends over at Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). These people work day in and day out with our customers on...

Benefits and Backend The following is the first in a series of excerpts from text that I wrote with the help of John Flanagan and Brian Kelly. We used this as an extension of the SoftGrid training that we were offering right after the acquisition of...