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App-V 5.1 Released!
The MDOP 2015 release which includes App-V 5.1 is now available. Microsoft have a very good summary of what’s new in the 5.1 release, so rather than repeat that I will just direct you there!...
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Sequencing LibreOffice
Not many of you would want to actually sequence this… If you are using App-V, chances are you have licenses to use Microsoft Office already! But if you want to learn a cool trick that might help out...
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Adding Windows Firewall Rules to App-V Packages
You may have noticed Windows Firewall prompts appearing when launching virtualised applications: This is because App-V does not support detecting or applying firewall rule changes. You could of course...
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App-V and .NET Framework Native Images
Assemblies written using the .NET Framework aren’t compiled directly to machine code. The exes and dlls are like a halfway house between written code and pure machine code, and are compiled ‘just-in...
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Environment Variables in App-V Shortcuts
I fixed an application recently (KeySIGN add-in for AutoCAD) that added three new environment variables and used these as parameters in the shortcut it created. I do not have the exact detail to hand...
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Office 365 with App-V
UPDATE: This issue can now be resolved by adding a registry key, see here for further details. Office 365 uses a new installation technology named ‘Click-to-Run’ that shares it roots with App-V and the...
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IE11 Freezes on First Launch in App-V
This is an issue that has been known to many since Internet Explorer 11 was released, discussed on various forums, but never to my knowledge distilled into a blog post. I hit this issue in an...
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Fix for App-V Sequencer Generated MSI Packages
As you may know, the App-V sequencer also spits out an old-school MSI package by default as part of its output. These are useful not only if you just want to quickly import a package for testing, but...
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Fix For Office 365 / App-V Interaction
In my previous post on this subject, I came to the conclusion that Office 365 apps just wouldn’t run in an App-V virtual environment. However there is a fix for this that can be applied to the client...
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Demystifying the PVAD
App-V 4.x gave you the option of either installing an application to its default location on C: (known as a VFS install), or a special virtual drive Q: (known as an MNT install). Best practice was to...
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Sequencing WinZip 22
As demonstrated in my previous article, older versions of WinZip had issues with App-V 5, requiring you to either install to the PVAD or hack the registry to get it to run. WinZip fixed this at some...
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New App-V Hotfixes Available
Microsoft have released patches for the App-V client built into Windows 10 build 1703 and 1709, as well as one for App-V 5.1 (Hotfix 11): App-V 5.1:...
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App-V Connection Group Registry Corruption Bug (fixed by the latest patches!)
The latest patches for App-V contain this in the list of fixed issues: Addresses an issue in which the user’s hive data in the registry isn’t maintained correctly when some App-V packages belong to the...
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Seemingly Missing Shortcuts in App-V 5.2
The App-V ‘5.2’ Sequencer (OK, it’s not really 5.2, but that’s what people commonly refer to as ‘the sequencer bundled with the Windows 10 ADK) detects applications a little differently to 5.1. I’ll...
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Fixes Released for Broken App-V Scripting in Windows 10
Microsoft were kind enough to break App-V scripting in April’s updates:...
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BUILD 2018: MSIX Inside and Out
MSIX may one day end up replacing both MSI and App-V. If you deal with enterprise application packaging and deployment you will want to watch this!
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BUILD 2018: Accelerating Windows 10 Enterprise App Deployment with MSIX
Another MSIX video from BUILD 2018:
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App-V Performance Improvements in Windows 10 June Updates
Out of the long list of fixes and improvements in this update is: Addresses performance regression in App-V, which slows many actions in Windows 10. The link for Windows 10 1803 (with older builds...
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Resolving Long Application Launch Times in App-V 5 (well, some of them!)
I have seen this issue with a couple of apps now, namely TreeSize and LockLizard. The application takes a crazy long time to launch, completely hogging one of your CPU cores as it does so. Procmon...
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Fixing VLC’s MSI Package
VLC don’t shout about this too loudly, but they have offered an MSI package to download for some time from their FTP site: https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/ However the packages suffer...
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