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Welcome
Hi, and welcome to my new blog! My name is Dan Gough and I am a consultant specialising in application compatibility, packaging and virtualization. I will be blogging about my real-world experiences...
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Report: App-V User Group Conference 2011
I recently got back from this great event at Microsoft HQ in the Netherlands. The whole thing was sponsored by Login Consultants, who amazingly hosted the whole thing for free including refreshments,...
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Building an App-V Lab Part 1: Base Image Creation
This is the first thing many people will have to go through when starting to look at App-V. Although I have a lot of sequencing experience, I have been fortunate enough to have been supplied with...
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Building an App-V Lab Part 2: Building the Network
If you followed Part 1 of this series, you should now have a few Sysprepped images with linked clones created from them for all of your required machines. Now comes the task of setting up the network....
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Building an App-V Lab Part 3: Installing App-V
After Part 2, you should now have a few VM’s set up and talking to a domain controller. Before going any further you should make sure you have a copy of the latest MDOP 2011 installation ISO image as...
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Are Your App-V Components Up To Date?
UPDATED 06/10/12 WITH HOTFIX 7 FOR APP-V CLIENT I often see many people still using App-V 4.6 SP1 RTM when there are now several hotfixes available, perhaps because they do not come down via Windows...
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Preventing VM’s From Falling Off The Domain
When working in a virtual lab continuously rolling back machine snapshots, unless you have taken steps to prevent it you may find your machines being kicked off of the domain (see here for a more...
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Strange Things Afoot In App-V DSC Land
Dynamic Suite Composition, or DSC for short, was a great addition to App-V, but anybody who’s used it extensively will realise that it doesn’t always work as expected. Tim Mangan has a whitepaper that...
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Finding Hard-Coded Paths In App-V Packages
The App-V client sequencer automatically substitute variables for common hard-coded paths in the registry, shortcuts and environment variables – but not when it comes to values hard coded in files,...
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Running 32-bit MMC snap-ins in App-V on 64-bit Windows
I came across an issue today whilst sequencing an application on Windows 7 x64 that contained a start menu shortcut to a .MSC file. During sequencing the application launched fine but it would not do...
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Using __COMPAT_LAYER when troubleshooting App-V with Regedit
Have you ever tried to launch regedit inside of the App-V bubble for some trouble-shooting only to find that you can’t see registry entries that should be there in your sequence? Chances are a UAC...
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Windows 8 Hyper-V vs VMWare Workstation 9
I recently upgraded my main desktop PC at home to the RTM version of Windows 8 and re-installed VMWare Workstation. All seemed well until I fired up a 4th VM and I began getting strange errors “the...
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A Couple Of App-V 4.6 Environment Variable Bugs
I’ve discovered the following bugs in how App-V 4.6 SP1 (and the SP2 beta) client handles environment variables. Try creating a simple sequence that consists of the following: A shortcut on the desktop...
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Fix For App-V .NET Applications Broken By Recent Security Updates
Over the past 9 months or so I’ve either experienced or heard about issues where a sequenced .NET application runs fine on a clean App-V client but not a live production build. I recently found this...
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Free Media Center upgrade to Windows 8 Pro – and how to fix it
I’m a fan of Microsoft’s Media Center, although MS haven’t put any effort into improving it over the last few years it’s still the slickest solution out there for watching/pausing/recording live TV. I...
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European App-V User Group 2013 – Register Now!
For those interested in App-V, and in particular the new v5 release, there is a free European App-V User Group meeting taking place at Microsoft HQ in Amsterdam on the 8th Feb. A great opportunity to...
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App-V 5 Book – First Chapter Available Now For Free!
Four App-V MVPs, Nicke Källén, Kalle Saunamäki, Ment van der Plas and Falko Gräfe have come together to write a book about App-V 5 and they are releasing each chapter at a time as they are written for...
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Troubleshooting 64-bit Apps in App-V 4.6.x
I discovered a few things yesterday when trying to troubleshoot a 64-bit application in App-V – here are some notes! I was trying to view the contents of the virtual registry by launching regedit...
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Fixing Broken Event Messages in App-V 4.6.x
I was given an app to troubleshoot today, Becrypt Enterprise Manager Console, part of an enterprise disk encryption system. The application displays Windows events, much like the built-in event viewer,...
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App-V v4.6 Virtual Registry Bug
I came across a strange issue today whilst sequencing Oracle Developer Suite 10g. Sequencing appeared to work at first but some of the shortcuts were not working correctly. Upon opening regedit in...
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