December 2008 - Posts
One of the great things about SoftGrid/App-V is that it's so easy to shoot out apps to client machines and automatically populate the user's desktop or Start menu with the appropriate icons, but if you're using mandatory profiles this may not work as
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Hi Everyone, The Application Virtualization team would like to get your input and ask you to help us with our planning process. We’d like your insight to help us improve SERVER application serviceability, reliability, and availability to create a consistent
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Here's another issue we saw during the App-V 4.5 beta that you might run across when installing the client. The resolution may seem obvious but the error can be confusing because it won't come right out and tell you that you don't have enough drive
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Here's another solution from Steve Thomas, our friendly neighborhood App-V beta engineer. This time he brings news on how we can now virtualize Adobe Photoshop 7.x using Microsoft App-V 4.5: ======== Issue: When you attempt to run a virtualized
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Here's another issue we saw a couple times during the App-V 4.5 beta. It's probably something that would be fairly uncommon but in case you're having trouble restarting a Microsoft Application Virtualization Streaming Server after it's been stopped then
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Here's another great tip from Steve Thomas, this time concerning the search function in Outlook 2007 when streamed to Windows Vista clients: ======== Issue: When Microsoft Outlook 2007 is sequenced and streamed with Windows Vista, the search function
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Here's another tip from Steve Thomas, esteemed 4.5 beta engineer. This one involves a specific error you may receive when sequencing Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition based applications: ======== Issue: When a virtualized Microsoft Visual
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Here are some tips on sequencing various Windows Live components that was originally written up by our very own Terry McKinney. If you have plans for sequencing any of the Windows Live apps you'll want to read through this first: ======== This article
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Here's another one we ran across during the Microsoft App-V 4.5 beta. If you're having trouble sequencing the Safari browser then this one's for you: ======== Issue: When attempting to sequence Apple Safari 3.1, the package hangs after the shortcut
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For the week of 11-30 through 12-6 we had three new Knowledge Base articles on Microsoft App-V. Links and titles are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=960782 When upgrading to Vista SP2 from XP, you may get an Application Compatibility
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Here's another tip from Steve Thomas that he found during the 4.5 beta. This is probably not something you'd run into on a regular basis but I wanted to mention it just in case: ======== Issue: You may receive the following error message (0e-00002015)
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Here's another App-V 4.5 issue we saw during the beta. This one was written up by Steve Thomas and concerns how to properly specify the SQL instance you want to use for the App-V 4.5 Management Server during installation. If you're not using
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I was browsing through the dark corners of some internal Microsoft App-V doc repositories the other day and came across a cool recipe for sequencing Microsoft Money 2007 that I thought you might be interested in seeing. This was originally submitted
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Here are some more KBs for you. For the week of 11-23 through 11-29 we had two new Knowledge Base articles on Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5. Links and titles are below: ======== SoftGrid 4.5 for Win Desktop AL 959692 - The installation
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The App-V team is happy to announce the availability of prescriptive guidance for sequencing Visual Studio 2008 in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5. The prescriptive guidance describes one method that you can use to sequence Microsoft Visual Studio
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