The Official Microsoft App-V Team Blog

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

App-V 4.6 Public Beta now available for download

Big news!  The MDOP product team just announced the immediate availability of the Microsoft...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/03/2009

Understanding the Autoload Feature of Microsoft App-V 4.5

Understanding the autoload feature is important for those users either new to App-V in general or...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/28/2009

Jumping on the Facebook bandwagon

I was looking around Facebook the other day and thought “Wow, there sure are a lot of companies out...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/22/2009

A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB973366

As part of our efforts to help you be more successful with our products, we’ve published a new...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/13/2009

CLI Sequencer - Creating New Package

My name is Victor Dubinsky and I am a Test Engineer at Microsoft working on Sequencer. Once of my...

Author: genef Date: 07/07/2009

Opening Visio documents from a SharePoint site using Edit in Microsoft Visio may fail with App-V

On an App-V 4.5 client that is running a sequenced (virtualized) version of Microsoft Visio 2003,...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/29/2009

A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB969564

At Microsoft we are continually receiving feedback from customers and improving our products, and as...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/24/2009

Circular dependencies with Dynamic Suite Composition and App-V 4.5

If you’ve been using App-V and it’s cool Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) feature for a while then...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/22/2009

A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB969774

As you know, at Microsoft we are continually receiving feedback from customers and improving our...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/02/2009

What is the App-V IgnoredApps key and why should I be aware of it?

The IgnoredApps key is used to mark an inconsistency between a locally-cached .OSD file which is...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/28/2009

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Is Architecting the Virtual Application Infrastructure

Here’s an FYI on a cool webcast we’re hosting next week on how Microsoft is architecting their App-V...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/27/2009

App-V in Learning Mode This Week

Pictured from left to right: Michael Bilodeau, Sandy Gotlib, Scott Stearns, Lidiane Souza, Nidhi...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/12/2009

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deploys Application Virtualization

Just an FYI that we’re hosting a webcast on May 26th to discuss how Microsoft uses App-V 4.5 and...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/11/2009

How to obtain Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5

We’ve had a few support calls on this so I wanted to send out a friendly reminder on how to obtain...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/06/2009

A new App-V Knowledge Base article is available - KB970831

We had a new Microsoft Application Virtualization KB article published last week.  This one is...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/05/2009

Resolving a couple common SoftGrid/App-V Management Console issues

I had a support call on this the other day and realized that there really isn’t a good blog...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/30/2009

So how many blogs does Microsoft have?

Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs.  Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/27/2009

Some insight into how SoftGrid and App-V 4.5 handle group policies

I came across an interesting nugget of information about how GPOs are applied in a SoftGrid/App-V...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/23/2009

App-V 4.5 Remote Console Configuration Guide

If you have ever tried to setup an App-V Remote Management Console or upgraded your existing 4.1...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/21/2009

Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 4: Using TechSmith Camtasia Studio Advanced Features

For Part 4 of this series I am going to use the same recording I made in Part 3 with TechSmith...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/09/2009

Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 3: Using TechSmith Camtasia Studio 6.1

Welcome to Part 3 of this series on recording video recipes for documenting your App-V sequences. In...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/08/2009

How to determine the space remaining in the App-V client cache

Have you ever wondered how you can find out how much free space is available in the App-V client...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/06/2009

Effective Sequencing starts before you launch the Sequencer

I had a long discussion with one of my customers this morning about Sequencing Best Practices. As...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/02/2009

Where to find the App-V Documentation

We’ve received some feedback that people may be unfamiliar with the location of the App-V 4.5...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/31/2009

How App-V Uses Your System Drive!

Today, our topic will be files and folders. As you probably already noticed, there is another drive...

Author: genef Date: 03/26/2009

Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 2: Using OfficeLabs Community Clips

In Part 1 of this series I gave you an introduction to the idea of using video to document your...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/25/2009

Potential issue upgrading a package sequenced on SoftGrid 4.2 with the App-V 4.5 Sequencer

Here’s another issue we came across during the 4.5 beta that I thought deserved a mention here since...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/03/2009

Two Announcements Today!

Today, on the MDOP blog, we made some exciting announcements: · App-V 4.5 CU1 is immediately...

Author: amont Date: 02/27/2009

App-V File Streaming Primer

App-V 4.5 includes a great feature: file streaming. This is a super-easy, lightweight way to get an...

Author: amont Date: 02/23/2009

Using output console redirection with SFTMIME in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5

When you use the SFTMIME command within scripts or batch files, it is important to understand that...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/19/2009

Hotfix Package 3 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5

Last week we published one new Knowledge Base article on Microsoft Application Virtualization. ...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/17/2009

A Story of a Publishing Refresh Request

Publishing Refresh Request is one of the main reasons why we have an App-V Management Server. ...

Author: genef Date: 02/16/2009

TechNet Webcast: Client-Side Virtualization

Here's another cool webcast we have coming up on client side virtualization using application...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/09/2009

Opening a DOC from a SharePoint site may generate an error if Word is virtualized

Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Sebastian Gernert, one of our hard working App-V...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/05/2009

App-V client generates "Could not connect to stream URL" error

Here's another issue uncovered by our very own Steve Thomas during the App-V 4.5 beta, this one...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/02/2009

App-V Usage Survey

Folks, The App-V team would like to get your input to help us plan for our next App-V release! Our...

Author: amont Date: 01/30/2009

App-V client install may fail with error 1603 due to performance counter registration errors

I was going through some of the issues we saw during the 4.5 beta and came across another one I...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/29/2009

Group Policy Object (GPO) upgrade of SoftGrid may fail with Installer errors 1642, 1606 or 1603

I was going over some of the issues our SoftGrid/App-V support folks have been getting recently and...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/27/2009

Troubleshooting App-V with log files

If you've ever found yourself having to troubleshoot some sort of software related issue then you...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/26/2009

How can I deploy and manage virtual applications for remote users who never connect to my network (or vpn in)?

Hello Everyone, I’d like to address a scenario our customers ask us if it’s supported on a regular...

Author: genef Date: 01/23/2009

Reducing resource requirements for computers running virtualized Microsoft Office 2007

When you are running a sequenced version of Microsoft Office 2007 on Terminal Server clients running...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/22/2009

Hotfix Package 2 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5: December 2008

We had one new App-V Knowledge Base article last week.  It was KB959834 and it describes Hotfix...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/21/2009

Sequencing Microsoft Office 2007 Core with Multiple Language Packs via DSC

Overview This post provides general instructions for sequencing Microsoft Office 2007 and multiple...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/20/2009

Microsoft App-V Federated Search Connector For Windows 7

If you've been playing around with the new Windows 7 beta then you may already be familiar with a...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/15/2009

New App-V KB article - Sequencing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

We had one new Knowledge Base article last week.  This one describes a hotfix that you'll need...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/14/2009

Running SFTMIME with the LOAD switch on Windows Vista clients

If you've been using SoftGrid or App-V for a while then you probably already know all the cool...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/13/2009

So what's next for App-V?

If I had to vote for what I thought was the single most common question I get on Microsoft App-V I...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/12/2009

Help, my package is too big!

If you sequence enough applications in either SoftGrid or MS App-V you'll eventually run into the...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/08/2009

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