Just a quick note to let everyone know that we've received a few reports about our management console not installing on a Windows Server 2003 computer if Service Pack 2 has been installed. There is no true interoperability issue, it just appears that...

A common question we get is "How do policies work with regards to a virtual application?" Well, the answer is that it depends on the policy. Policies applied via a Group Policy Object ( GPO ) are not applied to the Virtual Environment; meaning, policies...

Now that SoftGrid 4.1 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and SoftGrid 4.2 have come out we published a knowledge base article on sequencing Office 2007. Please find below the link to KB939796: "Prescriptive guidance for sequencing 2007 Office programs in Microsoft...

I was talking to App-V Support Engineer John Behneman the other day about some of the more popular cases and what kinds of issues those folks were seeing and he tells me about how common it is for new App-V admins to accidentally install more than one...

As the popularity of Microsoft SoftGrid/App-V continues to accelerate at a record pace, it seems that there's an ever-increasing number of folks who are new to SoftGrid and anxious to jump right in and stream their first virtual app.  While overall...

Hello everyone!  A lot of people have speculated that Citrix and Microsoft would be at odds over the acquisition of Softricity SoftGrid as it seemed to pit the two partners against each other over application virtualization.  However, working...

If you've ever tried to virtualize Adobe CS3 then I'm betting you ran into the issue below.  Fortunately there is a way to get this to work, it just takes a couple extra steps.  We have a Knowledge Base article coming out about this issue soon...

Here's an issue we've seen a couple times recently so I thought I'd send a heads up just in case any of you run into it: ======== Symptoms: After installing VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i some SoftGrid client actions seems to be blocked. For example, if you...

Hi everyone, John Behneman here.  The purpose of this article is to outline the steps necessary to migrate or move a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Database from one SQL server 200X to SQL server 2008 R2. This article assumes that the...

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...

I know we've been heavy on the MDOP lately but since if you have one you have the other I figured all you SoftGrid guru's would want to be kept up to date on stuff like this anyway.  If you missed the initial announcement, Microsoft now offers a...

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...

So you have your SoftGrid Virtual Application Server (VAS) installed, your applications sequenced and your clients deployed, but now you find that some or all clients fail to add the appropriate icons or stream a virtual app. You’re anxious to troubleshoot...

Just a heads up on a new App-V Knowledge Base article we published today.  If you currently run a virtualized version of Microsoft Office or plan to do so in the future then this makes a great reference: ===== Summary This article discusses known...

Here’s a new App-V KB article we published this today. If you ever need to troubleshoot client refresh issues with an App-V server then there’s no better place to start than right here: ===== Summary This article covers how to troubleshoot failures when...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning that talks about an issue you might run into when trying to install the Microsoft Application Virtualization client using the MSI instead of setup.exe.  Fortunately it’s an easy one to...

The dynamic suite composition tool provides a GUI interface that makes it easier to configure packages to take advantage of the App-V 4.5 dynamic suiting feature . For example, in the snapshot below I have pointed the tool to a directory which contains...

With the popularity of Microsoft App-V growing like crazy it seems there's always a fresh stream of folks who are new to the product and looking for some resources to help them get up to speed fast.  If this is you, or you just want a refresher to...

Just a quick FYI on a new KB we published this morning: ===== Symptoms Applications whose manifests specify automatic elevation (for example mmc.exe) may require additional steps to work correctly using run-as in App-V environments. This is a common scenario...

Support Besides the elimination of application conflicts, Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization can solve many other support related issues. By running each application inside of its own protected SystemGuard environment, SoftGrid enabled applications...

If you're new to SoftGrid or just new to sequencing (packaging applications), here are a few tips that should help you avoid some time consuming issues: Familiarize yourself with any application you plan to sequence. You also need to be familiar with...

I had a support call on this the other day and realized that there really isn’t a good blog post on it so I decided I might as well go ahead and correct that situation now. You may run into an issue where the console just randomly crashes, or it...

written by Josh Davis, SDET 2 One of my early surprises at Microsoft was when I was working on a test machine doing some typical investigations. In Microsoft, it is fairly common to have a test machine provisioning solution that is custom tailored...

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...

Just a quick heads up on a new Microsoft Application Virtualization Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one is a guide that walks you through sequencing .NET 4.0 with App-V 4.6 SP1: Summary The steps in this document describe one method...