{"id":2733,"date":"2018-02-12T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T21:17:34","slug":"creg-vreg-and-1709-app-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"CReg\/VReg and 1703\/1709 App-V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using App-V and moving to Windows 10 1703 or 1709 , you need to be aware of an issue, temporary workaround, and &#8220;permanent fix&#8221; that we are waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>The short of it is that last summer Microsoft decided to change the implementation of the App-V virtual registry to use containers.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know a lot about this change.\u00a0 I believe it was an attempt to modernize, and while I hope it was to improve performance,\u00a0 I have my doubts about those results.<\/p>\n<table style=\"background-color: #8c0606;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 584px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">NOTE: See update\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=2736\">https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=2736<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>What is clear is that the change caused a lot of issues, and a temporary workaround was given out (see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/windows\/en-US\/1af28cf2-e138-48f1-b6ad-d478d957742b\/windows-10-1709-breaks-appv-packages?forum=mdopappv\">this TechNet Forum post<\/a>).\u00a0 That workaround consists registry change that makes the registry system revert to the virtual registry. Microsoft has indicated that a permanent fix should be available at the end of this month (February 2018), and if you implement the temporary fix you will need to remove that workaround.<\/p>\n<p>App-V fixes\u00a0 for Windows 10 are released as operating system changes, so I expect it to appear as a non-security fix of the OS. So that probably means it appears in the March rollup?<\/p>\n<p>Whether the permanent fix is to give up on CReg and revert back to VReg or solve the issue is unknown, but I am guessing that we return to VReg.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using App-V and moving to Windows 10 1703 or 1709 , you need to be aware of an issue, temporary workaround, and &#8220;permanent fix&#8221; that we are waiting for. The short of it is that last summer Microsoft decided to change the implementation of the App-V virtual registry to use containers.\u00a0 We&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=2733\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CReg\/VReg and 1703\/1709 App-V<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appv5","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}