A treat for you today. You see, today is my day to find out if I am re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP. You get a little nervous waiting for Redmond to wake up and send the email each time. So with a surprise today I find that I am no longer an App-V MVP. Now I’m a “Windows IT Pro” …
Tag: AppV5
Apps Needing PVAD
Originally published April 3, 2015 : Last Updated December 10, 2020
12/10/2020 Update: Added Bloomberg Terminal
5/18/2019 Update: Added Aspect RTA 18.2.
8/7/2018 Updated: Added RStudio. I suspect this one can be solved other ways as well, but PVAD is an easy way to solve it.
7/27/2017 Update: Added a new app reported in. Also, I am seriously questioning if …
App-V and .Net Performance
NOTE: This post contains some great information, but has been updated in this post.
This post is about the performance impacts of combining Microsoft App-V 5 sequenced virtual applications with applications that use Microsoft .Net. I wish this story ended with good news, or at least reasonable actions that you could take to improve performance, but it isn’t so. Instead …
Don’t let your App-V 5 Reporting Database grow out of control!
The App-V Reporting database for App-V 5 and above is great for monitoring all usage of your virtual applications. This is quite helpful when it comes to license compliance. While it won’t prevent (accidental) usage of unlicensed apps, it is very useful for detecting usage as part of a program to “true up” your license allocations.
The Reporting Server is …
App-V 5 Management Server DB on Remote Machine Configuration
Well here was a wasted hour trying to figure this one out. It should have been so easy!
Problem: Installed a lab App-V 5 Management/Publishing Server with default instance database on that server. Works great. Install second Management/Publishing server needing to use the remote database. Fails.
What could have been the problem: (but wasn’t)
- Windows Firewall on first server with
On Streaming and Formats in App-V
On Streaming and Formats in App-V
Tim Mangan
TMurgent Technologies, LLP
September 22, 2014
Related Product: App-V 5.0 SP2 HF5 and prior
When we created the original application virtualization product, SoftGrid, streaming was a very important part of the implementation. Over the years, the streaming aspect has become less important to implementations, while remaining important to the decision makers that …
Updated solution to Paint.Net plugins in a connection group
Maybe Steve Thomas isn’t as crazy as he looks? I thought he went a little nuts when he wrote this blog post and suggested that you should always sequence using VFS. I mean, that is dead set against everything Microsoft has ever said. I did not disagree with the idea of VFS’ing things, but I have never said to VFS …
Errror 000012 on Add-AppvClientPackage
A customer was using XenApp with PVS. The same PVS image was used on machines on a farm. They added App-V 5 to the PVS image and decided to use the PowerShell interface to add applications virtually at boot time. One of the servers refused every app, while everything else worked on the ‘identical’ servers.
Investigation showed that the Add …