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Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Service Pack 1 (App-V 4.5 SP1) is now available. This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5. Additionally, it contains the following improvements: Support for Windows
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The following table lists the supported OS VALUE element options and the minimum supported client versions for Microsoft SoftGrid and Microsoft Application Virtualization. This element defines the required operating system. If there are more than
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If using a virtualized instance of Visual Studio (sequenced according to the instructions at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/appvirtualization/dd334515.aspx ), when users build a C++ project in Visual Studio 2008 with debugging enabled the compiled
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We just released the hotfix package for August 2009 that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Cumulative Update 1. This hotfix package addresses the following issues: It takes significantly longer to stream a
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This recently came across one of our App-V email DLs here and since I didn’t see this documented anywhere I thought I’d go ahead and post it here. Below are the command line options that the 4.5 Management Server Installer accepts: The following
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Big news! The MDOP product team just announced the immediate availability of the Microsoft App-V 4.6 beta, the first version to not only support 64-bit clients but also the virtualization of true 64-bit applications: Today, I am happy to announce
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Understanding the autoload feature is important for those users either new to App-V in general or are in the process of planning an upgrade to 4.5 from a previous version of Softgrid. Administrators need to understand the various characteristics of the
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On an App-V 4.5 client that is running a sequenced (virtualized) version of Microsoft Visio 2003, when attempting to open a Visio document from a SharePoint site by clicking the drop-down and selecting "Edit in Microsoft Office Visio" it may
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At Microsoft we are continually receiving feedback from customers and improving our products, and as part of this process we review open issues and supply hotfixes as appropriate. In line with this approach, we just published a new Microsoft Application
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If you’ve been using App-V and it’s cool Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) feature for a while then I’m sure you’re already aware of the power and flexibility this provides by allowing you to combine multiple virtualized applications into a single virtual
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As you know, at Microsoft we are continually receiving feedback from customers and improving our products. Part of this process is to review open issues and supply hotfixes as appropriate. In line with this approach we release hotfixes on
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The IgnoredApps key is used to mark an inconsistency between a locally-cached .OSD file which is either corrupt or not accessible for various reasons and its original location. There could be many reasons for this, including but not limited to: Malformed
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Here’s an FYI on a cool webcast we’re hosting next week on how Microsoft is architecting their App-V infrastructure. This one is presented by Michael Gallegos who served as the internal technical lead for Application Virtualization with Microsoft
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Just an FYI that we’re hosting a webcast on May 26th to discuss how Microsoft uses App-V 4.5 and ConfigMgr 2007 to deploy and manage applications, so if this is something that’s in your future (or your present) then mark your calendars now. The details
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We’ve had a few support calls on this so I wanted to send out a friendly reminder on how to obtain Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Cumulative Update 1 for App-V 4.5 is now available and can be obtained via the Microsoft
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