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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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As part of our efforts to help you be more successful with our products, we’ve published a new Knowledge Base article that has some recommendations for how to configure your Terminal Servers for best performance when hosting virtualized apps: KB973366
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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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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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Have you ever wondered how you can find out how much free space is available in the App-V client cache? This information is captured on the client computer by a performance counter called “App Virt Client Cache” and it has three components; “Cache size
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We’ve received some feedback that people may be unfamiliar with the location of the App-V 4.5 documentation, so if you’re wondering what documentation exists for the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 products and where to find this on Technet,
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Today, our topic will be files and folders. As you probably already noticed, there is another drive (often named as Q ), which is not accessible from user environment, in client machines Today we will cover the files and folders which are available by
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I was going through some of the issues we saw during the 4.5 beta and came across another one I thought you might find interesting. This is one where the installation of the App-V client will fail with the following error: "Installation operation
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I was going over some of the issues our SoftGrid/App-V support folks have been getting recently and I came across this client install issue that I thought some of you might be interested in hearing about. This one involves getting 1642, 1606 and/or
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If you've ever found yourself having to troubleshoot some sort of software related issue then you know that being able to get a log file can be incredibly helpful. With Microsoft Application Virtualization it's no different. There are two primary logs
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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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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 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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