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  • Blog Post: App-V 5.0 Sequencer - Package Streaming Optimisation

    With the App-V 5.0 Sequencer we have three options for optimising how our packages stream to our clients: Click Next In previous versions of App-V this would lump everything into one feature block so the whole package had to be download before launch. Now this does something completely different...
  • Blog Post: App Paths – A Virtual Application Extension in App-V 5.0

    Hello App-V heads! I recently published an Introduction to Virtual Application Extensions in App-V 5.0 blog post in which I talked about how virtual applications in App-V 5.0 have a much tighter synergy with the base platform and in some ways are less virtual then in previous versions. Virtual Application...
  • Blog Post: Scripting and Embedded Scripting for AppV 5.0 (Dynamic Deployment and User Configuration Scripting)

    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 ...read more
  • Blog Post: Sequencing for Connection Groups

    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 ...read more
  • Blog Post: Introducing Virtual Application Extensions in App-V 5.0

    Hi Everyone! So you may have heard rumours about App-V 5.0 applications being able to have less isolation and more entry points to the base OS. Well, that’s true, it’s all because of a new feature called Virtual Application Extensions. This new feature allows you to be very intentional...
  • Blog Post: App-V 5.0 RTM now released!

    BIG NEWS! App-V 5.0 has just been made publicly available as part of MDOP 2012 which also includes the release of UE-V! After much speculation about the App-V 5.0 release date its great to have it finally here... Here's the official announcement Here's where you can get it Also here are some...
  • Blog Post: App-V 5.0 – Management Server Automation – SMB Streaming

    Hi all, As part of the 4.5 Management server we had no way of automatically adding packages to the management server and publishing them to client. One of the key improvements in the App-V 5.0 Management Server is the ability to automatically add and publish packages. As part of the App-V 5.0 beta...
  • Blog Post: App-V 5.0 – Convert Legacy Packages to the new file format

    Hi all, In a previous post we showed how easy it is to test App-V legacy packages, now we’re going to convert automatically these packages to the new App-V 5.0 format. http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualworld/archive/2012/10/24/app-v-5-0-legacy-package-conversion-report-creation.aspx To complete this...
  • Blog Post: App-V 5.0 – Legacy Package Conversion Report Creation

    Hi all, Imagine the scenario, you have 200 packages created with 4.5+ and you want to test that they will work with App-V 5.0, how do we accomplish this? As part of the App-V 5.0 beta 2 release it offers the ability to automatically test legacy packages to see if they are compatible for package conversion...
  • Blog Post: Introducing Microsoft Office 2013 Preview App-V package

    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 ...read more
  • Blog Post: Walking through the App-V 5.0 Beta Server Setup (Part 1)

    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 ...read more
  • Blog Post: App-V “Application is not working as expected” Troubleshooting Check List

    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 ...read more
  • Blog Post: How to run Process Monitor (ProcMon) inside the App-V virtual environment

    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 ...read more
  • Blog Post: MDOP Engineering Team at MMS 2012

    The MDOP Engineering Team is in Las Vegas this week for MMS 2012 . Angie, Aseem, Briton, Dan, Derrick, Dilip, Karan, Tim and myself are hanging out with customers and partners at the Venetian Resort.  Brad Anderson kicked things off this morning ...read more
  • Blog Post: Announcing User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) and App-V 5.0

    Microsoft’s own Karri Alexion-Tiernan just announced two new virtualization betas you’ll want to check out. The first is a new product to Microsoft’s Desktop Virtualization family – User Experience Virtualization (UE-V). The second is an update to our ...read more
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