Microsoft’s Thamim Karim just wrote a great article on how to share a virtual environment between a set of packages using Connection Groups in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1. If you’re not leveraging this yet then you probably should be and this is a great starter guide. Virtual Environments in ConfigMgr 2012…
Year: 2013
Support Tip: App-V v5 integration in Configuration Manager and PowerShell Policy
~ Lars Iwer | Consultant II Here’s a quick tip on an interesting issue I saw the other day where a client was unable to open the Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Service Pack 1 client GUI. Double-clicking on the system tray icon had no visible effect and instead, error events 1026 followed by event ID…
Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Server Service Pack 1 now available
Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Server Service Pack 1 is now available. You can find out what’s been fixed and how to download HP1 for App-V 5.0 SP1 at the following location: KB2873465 – Description of Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Server Service Pack 1 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2873465) J.C. Hornbeck |…
KB: Applications that are sequenced through the App-V 5.0 SP1 sequencer may not be installed correctly
Applications that are sequenced through the Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Service Pack 1 (App-V 5.0 SP1) sequencer may not be installed correctly when you try to add the package by using the generated MSI. The MSI setup starts, continues, and then exits without generating an error message. Additionally, a generic event that resembles the following…
Shared Content Store in Microsoft App-V 5.0 – Behind the Scenes
~ Thamim Karim | Premier Field Engineer Following on from my introduction to Shared Content Store (SCS) in this post I want to take you behind the scenes of what actually happens when we put our App-V 5.0 Client into this mode. The easiest way to understand how things work is by first looking at…
Hotfix Package 2 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 now available
This article describes Hotfix Package 2 for June 2013 which contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 All Languages (APP-V 4.6 SP2 All Languages). This hotfix package contains the latest hotfixes for App-V 4.6 SP2. For all the details and a download link please see the following: KB2845933 – Hotfix…
How to Prepare for a Migration to App-V 5.0
This is the first post in a series of posts around migration of App-V from 4.x to 5.0. Introduction Since App-V 5.0 was announced in November last year, it has garnered lots of excitement from customers. In order to provide those benefits, App-V was designed from ground up to provide the foundation upon which we could…
Betas for App-V 5.0 SP2 and UE-V 2.0 now available
Today we also announced the beta availability of Microsoft User Experience Virtualization 2.0 (UE-V 2.0) and Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 SP2 (App-V 5.0 SP2), two critical components from Microsoft’s Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) that give business customers access to all of their desktop and internal line of business applications, as well as personalized Windows environments…
Part 3 – App-V 5.0 and Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 – App-V 5.0 Application Creation
Hi all, In part 1 we introduced how you can leverage and use the Configuration Manager Powershell cmdlets and then in part 2 we showed you how to automatically create a user collection but let’s see how we can now add a new App-V 5.0 application. Creating the Application The first thing I need to…
Part 2 – App-V 5.0 and Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 – User Collection Creation
Hi all, In part 1 we introduced how you can leverage and use the Configuration Manager Powershell cmdlets but now it’s time to automatically deploy App-V 5.0 applications. What we’re going to do is the following: · Automate the creation of the User Collection · Automate the application import · Automate the application distribution ·…