written by – Naveed Ahmad, Senior SDE 1 Introduction Connection Group is comprised of two or more individual packages. Which means those packages are Sequenced individually, they are edited individually, and they are upgraded individually...

If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android , you’ll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version now available for iOS . The updates include bug fixes...

Here’s another UE-V article that I thought I’d share here for now, at least until there’s a better home for UE-V content somewhere else.  This Knowledge Base article talks about how to enable debug logging: Summary This article describes how to enable...

written by – Yash Harsha Kumar (SDET) Introduction Connection Groups group one or more APP-V packages to enable member applications in these packages to interact with one another while maintaining isolation from the rest of the system. This gives sequencing...

Greetings! Last week, Karri announced the general availability of MDOP 2012 , which included the release of two much awaited products: the new Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), and one of the biggest releases in Microsoft Application Virtualization...

In case you missed the announcement on the MDOP blog a couple days ago, MDOP 2012 is now available. MDOP 2012 includes Application Virtualization (App-V) v5, User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Dart 8 and a slew of other great bits. If you already...

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 (App-V 4.6 SP2) is now available. This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6. Additionally, this service pack includes some improvements and a hotfix...

Connection Groups group one or more App-V packages to enable member applications in these packages to interact with one another while maintaining isolation from the rest of the system. This gives sequencing engineers the flexibility to maintain packages...

Here are a few KB articles we released in anticipation of the Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) release with MDOP 2012 . We don’t really have a UE-V specific blog but I wanted to make sure these were mentioned somewhere and thought this...

We just published a few new KB articles in anticipation of the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) v5 release so if you’re among the many who are planning to make the move then you’ll probably want to take a quick look at these. It’s mostly some...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where a Microsoft Application Virtualization MSI run from a mapped drive fails to install the virtual package. ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario: - You have created...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one details the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) file versions currently available. ===== This article is a quick reference to determine Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) file...

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...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one explains how to allow applications running inside an App-V Virtual Environment to read from or write to the native registry on a client. ===== Summary The purpose of this document is to describe...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue you might run into where expanding an App-V 4.6 SP1 package fails with an error saying “Failed to expand package to disk.” ===== Symptoms To successfully sequence a plug-in...

There seems to be some confusion surrounding the licensing model used by Microsoft Visio and how it affects App-V deployments of Visio packages so I wanted to take a minute and see if I could clear this up a little bit. The licensing model used by Visio...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where changes to an App-V package may not get delivered when the app is deployed using ConfigMgr 2012. ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You create a Microsoft...

-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...

This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest fixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This hotfix package is dated April 2012. This hotfix package fixes the following issue: On a server that...

-Priya Ravichandran | Program Manager, Microsoft Application Virtualization The App-V 5.0 Beta Server is made up 3 components – Management Server, Publishing Server and the Management Database. The components are independent but have varying...

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...

Hello everyone, John Behneman here again. The purpose of the article is to highlight some very simple OSD file edits/tweaks that can potentially fix a large number of most common issues we see here in product support. Chances are you can save yourself...

Hi everyone, Mark Stanfill here. Running Process Monitor (ProcMon) to troubleshoot Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) client issues such as missing files, access denied errors or other file and registry-based issues is sometimes necessary to...

Here’s one more Knowledge Base article we published today. This one shows you how to sequence (virtualize) the ConfigMgr admin console in App-V. ===== Symptoms When trying to Sequence (virtualize) the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about a couple work arounds for an App-V issue where launching an App-V application fails with "Unable to initialize package information (0x00000000)": ===== Symptoms...