November 2008 - Posts
Here's another odd App-V error you could possibly run into. The first time I read this I wondered how this could ever possibly happen but I guess it happened to someone otherwise it wouldn't have been reported to us: ======== Issue: If an App-V
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Here's another one turned up by our hard working beta team. If you're installing the server on Win2K8 be sure you have the IIS6 compatibility bits and the scripts and tools installed: ======== Issue: When attempting to do an installation of the Microsoft
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Here's an issue our own Michelle Dixon ran into while working on the 4.5 beta. Note that her issue specifically mentions Microsoft Office but this can occur with any exceptionally large virtualized app: ======== Issue: After performing a Desktop
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Here's an issue the the App-V beta team ran into and since I didn't see it documented anywhere else I thought I'd give everyone a heads up here: ======== Issue: When sequencing an application with the App-V Command Line Interface (CLI) Sequencer (SFTSequencer.com)
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Just an FYI that Microsoft is offering a free second chance to pass that Microsoft Certification exam as well as a 25% discount on an additional exam. You better hurry though as you have to sign up by December 31st. ======== Second Shot now gives you
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SoftGridBlog.com just posted about a cool new tool called the App-V Ping Tool. I haven't tried it myself but I can definitely see where it could come in handy. Keep in mind this isn't a Microsoft tool so we make no guarantees, etc. but if you want to
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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
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Here's a great tip from Sebastian Gernert on sequencing on Windows Vista. If you're getting a "Can't find services.exe" error when you begin monitoring then you better take a look at those policies: ======== Issue: When sequencing an application on Windows
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In certain SoftGrid/App-V environments, clients may startup and immediately go into Disconnected Operations (DO) mode instead of refreshing from the server or streaming applications. This can happen if there's a delay in contacting the server when the
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Here's an issue I've seen pop up a couple times so I thought it would be worth a heads up here. They key takeaway? Even if you get this warning when installing App-V, it doesn't actually cause the install to fail and Microsoft Application Virtualization
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This is the first in what I hope will be a fairly long series of posts covering some of the support issues we've seen during the App-V 4.5 beta. Chances are these won't make it as official KBs but at least now they'll be on the web and searchable and
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We had two new Knowledge Base articles for the week. Links and titles are below: ======== SoftGrid 4.5 for Win Desktop AL 959524 - Support for .NET in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (App-V) Published - New EN-US SoftGrid 4.5 for Win Desktop
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The Official MDOP blog posted some cool information about a couple of products from AppDNA. I have the basic rundown below but you can read the entire original post here . ======== The AppTitude solution from AppDNA extracts and stores the application
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Today, for the final posting in the series covering the newly released App-V 4.5 Resource Kit , we are going to discuss the application listing tool. Ever wondered which applications are running virtualized and which natively in your machine? The application
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Hi everyone, just a quick FYI that if you're signed up for Twitter you can now receive Tweets on all the info I post here as well as some of the other sites I contribute to and monitor. Just follow MSManageability and you'll get them all. So why Twitter?
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Visually parsing large log text files can be quite tedious! The client log parser utility helps IT administrators save time by making it easy to pinpoint common failures (e.g. launch failures) and extract other useful information from the logs. C:\MSAppVirt_ClientLogParser_Setup_1.0.0.15100>AppVClientLogparser.exe
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Today's blog post is a continuation of the series covering the 5 resource kit tools released recently . As its name implies, the SFT parser tool makes it easy to inspect and extract information from SFT files. The tool would be useful for administrators
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As we said yesterday, each day of this week we will have different posts covering the different App-V Resource Kit tools. Today we will talk about the cache resizing tool. Often companies start exploring application virtualization by publishing a limited
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Over on the MDOP blog , Jameel Khalfan posted some new announcements regarding the 64-bit support roadmap as well as some cool new App-V partnerships. I posted a quick intro and link to each below: ======== MDOP Makes Some Noise in Spain I mentioned
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We had eight new Knowledge Base articles on Microsoft Application Virtualization for the week - Links and titles are below: ======== SoftGrid 4.5 for Win Desktop AL 959413 - Application Virtualization Clients are not able to stream content from an Application
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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
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The App-V team is happy to announce the general availability of the App-V 4.5 Resource Kit Tools. The main goal of the resource toolkit is to enable IT administrators to unlock the full potential of the recently released App-V 4.5. This release consists
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Looking for a way to quickly and easily assess client and server computers for deployment of Microsoft Application Virtualization v4.5? Well today is your lucky day then. Today, at TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona, we announced the RTM release
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Have you ever wanted to know what an App-V term meant but were afraid to ask? I stumbled across this very helpful link the other day while I was searching for something else and thought it would be worth sharing. It's the Application Virtualization
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