December, 2012

About the Gladiator

About GLADIATOR@MSFT

Steve Thomas is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft specializing in Desktop and Application Virtualization.

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App-V Knowledge Base Articles

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App-V 4.6 Service Pack 2 is available on Microsoft Update

Posted 6 months ago

by Steve TH - MSFT
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Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 is now available via Microsoft Update. This also means that you can leverage WSUS as well as the software updates feature of Configuration Manager to deliver this update to your RDS and desktop clients...
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The Case of the Mysterious Open SFT Handle

Posted 6 months ago

by Steve TH - MSFT
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Here is another interesting one-off issue that was happening on a few machines in one of my customer’s environments. They were using App-V 4.6 with Configuration Manager 2012 managing the packages. The virtual applications were distributed fully...
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App-V 4.6: Why is SFTLP.EXE crashing and why can’t I troubleshoot it?

Posted 6 months ago

by Steve TH - MSFT
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I have encountered an interesting issue where a series of applications that have been virtualized with App-V 4.6 will fail due to an operational error. Ironically it has nothing to do with any kind of limits within App-V or is even related to the virtualization...