Here’s another new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one spells out the official Microsoft support policy for Microsoft apps running in a Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) environment: ===== Summary This article covers the Microsoft support policy for Microsoft applications that are running in a Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) environment. Server…
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Support policy for third-party applications that are running in a Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) environment
Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one spells out the official Microsoft support policy for third-party apps running in a Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) environment: ===== Summary This article covers the Microsoft support policy for third-party applications that are running in a Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) environment….
A script to allow easy testing of your App-V package on any OS
Time and patience are required when creating App-V packages and testing them on various operating systems. You should always target your packages for the right operating system (OS), but testing shows that a package made for one Windows OS may run on another Windows version. This PowerShell script modifies .OSD files for you so that…
Troubleshooting 04-0000180C / 6156 Errors in Microsoft Application Virtualization
Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about troubleshooting an issue where attempting to upgrade a package in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) fails with error 04-0000180C: ===== Symptoms Attempting to upgrade a package in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) fails with error 04-0000180C: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Application Virtualization Client>sftmime.com add…
KB: How to Enable Automatic Crash Dump Generation in Microsoft Application Virtualization
Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one walks you through how to create a crash dump in Microsoft Application Virtualization should you ever need to do so as guided by a Microsoft support engineer: ===== Symptoms This article describes how to enable automatic crash dump generation for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)…
How to Sequence the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Admin Console with Microsoft App-V
When trying to Sequence (virtualize) the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator’s Console, the resulting package will generate the following error and fail to run: MMC cannot initialize the snap-in Using the steps below, you can virtualize the admin console and have it run successfully. NOTE In my example below it is assumed that I…
KB: Error 0000B00F when attempting to delete a server from the Default Server Group in Microsoft Application Virtualization
Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about how to fix an issue where you get error 0000B00F attempting to delete a server from the Default Server Group in Microsoft App-V: ===== Symptoms When attempting to delete a Server from the Default Server Group in the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)…
Now available: Hotfix Package 5 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 SP1: December 2011
Just a quick FYI that we recently released Hotfix Package 5 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 SP1 dated December 2011. I don’t think I mentioned this one before so if you haven’t seen it you’ll want to check it out: ===== This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest fixes for Microsoft Application…
A Complete Guide to SQL 2008 App-V Database Migration
Hi everyone, John Behneman here. The purpose of this article is to outline the steps necessary to migrate or move a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Database from one SQL server 200X to SQL server 2008 R2. This article assumes that the App-V database name stays the same on the source and destination database servers although…
How to remove File Type Associations on the App-V Sequencer
When using Package Accelerators with the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 1 (App-V 4.6 SP1) Sequencer you end up with EXACT same package as the one used to create the Package Accelerator. In the case of Microsoft Office, you will end up with all the File Type Associations (FTA) for the latest version of…