Known issues and limitations when using virtualized Office 2010 applications on App-V 4.6 and App-V 4.5 SP2 clients

KBJust a heads up on a new App-V Knowledge Base article we published today.  If you currently run a virtualized version of Microsoft Office or plan to do so in the future then this makes a great reference:

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Summary

This article discusses known issues and limitations when using virtualized Microsoft Office 2010 applications on Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 and App-V 4.5 SP2 clients.

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Known issues when Office applications are virtualized

SharePoint sites may load slowly
For additional information on this issue, please reference the following article: https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2010/09/27/troubleshooting-slow-sharepoint-integration-with-virtualized-microsoft-office-2010-in-app-v.aspx

Office co-existence: Locally installed Outlook 2007 does not work after you used Outlook 2010
Outlook 2010 will upgrade profile and mailbox information, and Outlook 2007 may not function properly once Outlook these upgrades have been made.

The following error message may occur on an App-V client when accessing a document library in SharePoint:

The Application Virtualization Client could not launch the application you requested.
The specified application does not exist. Check the name you specified, and then try again. Error code: xxxxxxx-xxxxxx04-00000A09

If you reinstall the Deployment Kit multiple times on an App-V client, the  “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\CVH” registry keys may not be populated properly. To resolve this issue, uninstall the Deployment Kit, restart the system and reinstall the Deployment Kit.

Unable to create a new block timeline in Visio 2010

Unable to see the names of other users editing shared Excel workbooks at the same time

The following registry keys/values must be removed from the sequenced Office 2010 virtual package:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0\Help\0x0409\<<GUID>>\Registration
"RegisteredName"=""

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0\Help\LanguageNeutral\<<GUID>>\Registration
"RegisteredName"=""

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0\Registration
"UserName"=""

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Help\LanguageNeutral\<<GUID>>\Registration
"RegisteredName"=""

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\<<*******>>\InstallProperties
"RegOwner"=""

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
"Company"=""
"UserInitials"=""
"UserName"=""

Known limitations when Office applications are virtualized

Outlook emails are not included in Windows Search resultsIf Outlook 2010 is virtualized, no results are returned when you use the Windows Search feature on Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 to search for emails.

Office co-existence: If Outlook 2007 is installed locally and Outlook 2010 is virtualized, the Send To mail recipient option will open a message in Outlook 2007 rather than Outlook 2010
To work around this issue, uninstall the locally installed version of Outlook.

The “Connect to Outlook” feature is not available when viewing a calendar on a SharePoint site
If you view a calendar on a SharePoint site and select the Calendar option under Calendar Tools, the “Connect to Outlook” option is not available.

In Windows Explorer, the SharePoint Shared Folder Synchronization menu is not displayed.
The SharePoint multiple uploads feature is not available
For additional information on this issue, please reference the following article: https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2010/10/28/solution-multiple-uploads-and-datasheet-view-features-don-t-work-using-app-v-virtualized-office-2010.aspx

The SharePoint datasheet view feature is not available
For additional information on this issue, please reference the following article: https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2010/10/28/solution-multiple-uploads-and-datasheet-view-features-don-t-work-using-app-v-virtualized-office-2010.aspx

The “Send to OneNote 2010” printer option is not available
The Send To OneNote 2010 printer option requires the Office package to be properly configured for the virtual proxies and to be deployed globally to the machine.  Deployments using the App-V Management Server or other per-user package deployments will not expose the Send To OneNote 2010 printer functionality.

Infopath XML files fail to open with the following error when launched from a SharePoint document library:

There has been an error while loading the form.
Error details:
This form template is not currently browser-enabled. If must either be republished as a browser-enabled form, or opened using an appropriate version of Microsoft Office InfoPath.

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For the latest version of this article see the link below:

KB2481474 - Known issues and limitations when using virtualized Office 2010 applications on App-V 4.6 and App-V 4.5 SP2 clients

J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer

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