Year: 2015

First, don't panic.  Mainstream Support ending doesn't mean that if you are using App-V 4.6 you are suddenly going to be unsupported.  What it does mean, however, is that after July 14, 2015 there won't be anymore hotfixes or service packs. App-V 4.6 won't be unsupported until July 14, 2020, so you can keep using…

~ John Behneman | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hello everyone, John Behneman here again. I’d like to share with you a document I just completed that provides strategies, troubleshooting framework, and a consistent framework to assist our customers new to Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 (App-V 5.0). It is not a training guide in the traditional…

The article below describes hotfix package 6 for Microsoft App-V 5.0 Service Pack 2. The hotfix package includes a hotfix for an issue where Office Click-to-Run applications do not start when you try to open Office documents from Microsoft SharePoint. The problem breaks integration with SharePoint and prevents Office Click-to-Run applications from starting when the…

You may discover that the operating system requirements are not automatically selected when you add a Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.x application for Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 as a package in the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Administrator console. If you see this, we have a work around detailed in the article below. KB3070370 -…

We still get a lot of questions regarding what operating system and SQL Server versions are supported with the App-V 4.5 so I thought I’d take a minute and clarify that here. For App-V components such as management servers, streaming servers, the data store, the web service and the console, the latest OS that’s supported…

The article below describes a hotfix package that contains hotfixes for Microsoft Office Click-to-Run and that address user profiles issues in Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 (App-V 5.0) Service Pack 3 (SP3). For a complete listing of issues that are fixed as well as download and installation instructions, please see the following: KB3060458 – Hotfix Package…

~ Paul Westervelt | Support Escalation Engineer During the course of the App-V 4.6 product life cycle there have been a number of changes to the base components that require updating to get to the latest version. As such, one of the issues that we see frequently on the App-V support team is folks wanting…

When you launch a process that is virtualized through Microsoft Application Virtualization version 4.5, version 4.6, or version 5.0 (App-V 4.5, App-V 4.6 or App-V 5.0) on a touchscreen-enabled device, the mouse pointer may become unresponsive. If you exit either the App-V application process or the wisptis.exe process, you’ll find that the mouse starts to…

The article below describes a hotfix package that contains hotfixes for Adobe Acrobat issues in Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 (App-V 5.0) Service Pack 3 (SP3). The hotfix package resolves the following issues: Issue 1: Virtualized Adobe Acrobat running through an App-V Client on Windows 7 crashes or stops responding because of DLL issues Virtualized Adobe…

Have you ever had a great idea on how to improve Microsoft Application Virtualization but weren’t sure how to communicate that idea back to the engineering team? Well now you can not only easily submit those ideas but vote for ideas others have submitted as well. Welcome to the Microsoft Application Virtualization customer feedback site!…