April, 2011

Yesterday we talked about what App-V Package Accelerators were and how the process worked, and today we’re going to continue that theme and show how Package Accelerators are vehicles for sharing within the App-V community. We’ll even walk through a couple...

What are Package Accelerators? Package Accelerators support the “Predictable Packaging” pillar of the new App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer. Package Accelerators allow users to sequence easily and automatically large, complex application packages.  Instead...

Symptoms The information below describes how to use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to determine whether The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is installed prior to sending the Office 2010 virtual package. This is a good practice...

Yesterday we released Part 1 in this series, and now in Part 2 we will look at the Automated Best Practices throughout the new App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer. In Part 1, Problem Notification features were addressed, which are also an important part of Automated...

In previous versions of the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer, there was little to no built-in guidance from the Sequencer around potential problems or following best practices. With the new Microsoft App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer, automated...

Just a quick FYI on a great article written by our very own Michael Kleef.  If you’re seeing Error Code: 0000C824 in the Management console then you’ll want to check this out.  Keep in mind that this applies to any MMC that’s acting up, not...

This hotfix package addresses the following issues: When you try to load a package and there is insufficient space in the Application Virtualization cache, you receive a "0A-0000E01E" error. You try to perform a publishing refresh operation...

Just a quick heads up on a new Microsoft Application Virtualization Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one shows you how to upgrade the Microsoft App-V client from 4.5 to 4.6 silently using an ESD: ===== In order to retain the current...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one talks about managing and installing Microsoft Application Virtualization packages: After the sequencing process of applications through...

I’m Chris Green, Program Manager on the App-V team. I first joined Microsoft in June, 2009 and I was immediately assigned to the beginnings of a project that I would see right through to its release. That project was to make improvements to a component...

Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho been busy over in the TechNet Wiki , creating lots of articles on all kinds of Microsoft virtualization technologies.  This one walks you through installing the App-V Sequencer and Sequencing an app (making the virtualization...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one walks you through installing the App-V Management Server and getting it all set up for streaming: The System Center Application...

New to Microsoft App-V or just wondering what all the buzz is about? If so then head over to the TechNet Wiki and check out the great intro written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho: There is a solution provided by the MDOP package called Microsoft...

Looks like the good folks over on the Configuration Manager writing team just announced their Configuration Manager Documentation Library update for April 2011: The Configuration Manager 2007 documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...

Symptoms Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 (ConfigMgr 2007) and USMT 4.0 in a ConfigMgr 2007 Native Mode environment to refresh an Operating System puts the resulting deployed ConfigMgr 2007 client in a non-functional state as it is unable...

Consider the following scenario: You create a deployment package on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You create a program in the package. The name of the program contains extended ASCII characters...

Microsoft’s very own John Vintzel recently posted another fantastic article discussing Configuration Manager 2012 offline servicing for Operating System Images and how it can be used to apply updates to operating system images while they are in the Configuration...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here.  If you’re getting an Access Denied error when trying to connect to a client using the Remote Tools then here...

Consider the following scenario: You configure a maintenance window for a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client. You configure an advertisement to run on the client computer within the maintenance window. The client...

Do you use Windows Intune today, or have plans for using it in the future?  It seems that most of you are considering the advantages that Intune offers so if you’d like the opportunity to influence the direction we take with Windows Intune, or if...

Microsoft’s John Vintzel is at it again with another great post on the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 beta.  This one covers monitoring the compliance of content and a new feature to validate content in the Configuration Manager 2012 infrastructure...

Looks like our very own Jeff Wettlaufer just posted a veritable salad of videos covering a few different topics relating to Configuration Manager 2012.  I have them listed below but you can view them directly from the source here . 1.  System...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today.  This one’s really only relevant from a support standpoint as it details the information our troubleshooting tool gathers but I thought you’d like to know about it anyway. Summary System...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here. Symptoms Using System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to backup a SQL database fails with the following error:...

If you are performing Disk to Tape (D-T) backups using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 or 2010 (DPM), after adding data sources (DS) to a protection group (PG) for two or more protected servers, the backup jobs may not be scheduled for any...