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If you've been using SoftGrid or App-V for a while then you probably already know all the cool things you can do using the SFTMIME utility . You can load apps, delete apps, configure certain settings, and so on, but if you run SFTMIME on Windows
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If you sequence enough applications in either SoftGrid or MS App-V you'll eventually run into the issue where your sequenced package is too large to be saved. We're limited to a 4GB file size so if you have an application that is large enough, or
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With Microsoft App-V 4.5, and with SoftGrid 4.2 along with the MSI utility , we now have the ability to create and distribute standalone virtual apps that require no server or streaming infrastructure whatsoever. While this gives tremendous flexibility
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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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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 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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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'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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