The Official Microsoft App-V Team Blog

Your official source for all the latest news and tech tips for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).

What’s New in Application Virtualization 5.0 SP1 and User Experience Virtualization 1.0 SP1

Curious what’s new with App-V and UE-V? Stephen Rose from our Springboard Series Blog can help fill...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/11/2013

Two new Microsoft Office 2010 Package Accelerators for App-V v5 are now available

Just wanted to let you know about a couple Package Accelerators that are now available for App-V v5....

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/11/2013

KB: Known issues when creating or using an App-V 5.0 Office 2010 package

This document contains a list of known issues with App-V 5.0 Office 2010 packages built using the...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/10/2013

KB: How to sequence Microsoft Office 2010 in Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0

This document describes one method that you can use to sequence Microsoft Office 2010 for use with...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/10/2013

Now available for download: Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0

This hotfix package addresses the following issues: Issue 1 When you try to run Sample Manager on...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/21/2013

How to use App-V to virtualize Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - PowerPivot for Excel 2010

Hi all! This is Vladimir from the App-V team and today I wanted to give you a quick tip on...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/06/2013

How to manually uninstall the App-V 4.6 SP1 client

Hello everyone, John Behneman here, and in today’s post I wanted to pass along a tip that might come...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/28/2013

Your guide to must-have App-V 5.0 migration resources

Looking for the best resources for your App-V v5 migration or deployment? If so then Microsoft’s...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/27/2013

New hotfix for potential issue with App-V and ConfigMgr 2007

If you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with App-V then you might want to take a look at...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/19/2013

Support Tip: App-V client service fails with Error 1114: A Dynamic Link Library (DLL) initialization routine failed

Hello everyone, John Behneman here, and today I wanted to tell you about an interesting App-V issue...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/13/2013

How to Sequence Visual Studio 2012 in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 SP2

Looking to get a head start on virtualizing Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 with App-V? If so then this...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/06/2013

Where are all my App-V apps?

Just a quick heads up on a new Configuration Manager hotfix we released that may affect some of you....

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/28/2013

KB: 64-Bit UE-V applications crash on exit when Citrix EdgeSight is installed

This isn’t really App-V specific but since this is our short-term temporary home for UE-V content I...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/28/2013

How to collect App-V 5.0 debug traces

Hi all! This is Vladimir from the App-V team and today I want to show you how to collect App-V 5.0...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/23/2013

KB: Keepass.exe fails to synchronize settings with Microsoft User Experience Virtualization 1.0 (UE-V 1.0)

Here’s an issue we’ve seen a time or two here in support so I thought it would be worth a mention in...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/22/2013

KB: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error when launching the App-V Management Console

Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one describes an error you’ll get when trying to...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/16/2013

KB: Error granting access to an App-V package: Invalid input was passed

Here’s one more App-V KB article we published today. This one discusses and issue where using the...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/15/2013

KB: The Server App-V sequencing process fails with "The Sequencer could not stop the MSIServer service"

Here’s a new KB we published on an issue in App-V where the sequencer errors out and package...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/15/2013

How to sequence the Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Admin Console with Microsoft App-V

Hi everyone, Somaning Turwale here. I recently went through the process of sequencing the...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/08/2013

Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Integration

written by – Ozge Yavuz, SDE Introduction App-V 5.0 “isolates” virtual...

Author: Anurag Juneja [MSFT] Date: 01/03/2013

KB: Virtualized applications fail to launch and generate 00-000000C3 errors in sftlog.txt

Here’s a new KB we published on an issue where App-V applications may stop working when the client’s...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/17/2012

KB: How to use PowerShell to find packages in App-V v5 client connection groups

Looking for a way to find packages in Microsoft App-V v5 client connection groups using PowerShell?...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/13/2012

KB: Publishing Servers are automatically removed from App-V v5 clients

Just a quick heads up on a KB article we just published. When you deploy a virtualized app to an...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/12/2012

KB: Five common App-V v5 implementation scenarios

Here’s an new KB article we published that is particularly interesting. In the article, it talks...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/12/2012

KB: Adding a package version in Microsoft Application Virtualization returns error 0x8007012F

Here’s a new KB article that tells you how to fix an issue where removing and then adding the same...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/12/2012

KB: Launching a virtual application fails with error code 0x3E500D05-00090001

Here’s another new KB article we published. This one tells you how to fix an issue where launching...