After a fair few months of work and with support from the team at PACKT my new book (Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook) is out on sale. With over 60 recipes for the practical application of Microsoft Application Virtualization (Version 5) from every angle including… Setting up your first App-V infrastructure Deploying the software clients and prerequisites Sequencing applications into packages Publishing applications and… Read more
Tag: App-V
App-V, PowerPoint 2007 and SMARTBoard Notebook
Little bit of an interesting issue that I came across today that I thought I would share… One of our staff was having issues working with PowerPoint 2007 which we deploy through App-V 4.6 – basically the mouse would stop working normally acting as if something else was clicking on part of display. When running PowerPoint the entire PC would… Read more
Sequencing Adobe CS6 for App-V – Part 3, the testing/how/why
With any luck if you have followed the previous instructions to the letter you should now have a perfectly working App-V package for any of the Adobe CS6 applications, to confirm that the licence is applying correctly you should see a command prompt window appear just before any of the Adobe applications load just as you see in the series… Read more
Sequencing Adobe CS6 for App-V – Part 2, the sequencing
The next stop in this series of posts is your App-V Sequencing machine, in this case I will be running the sequencer as a virtual machine running in Hyper-V with a snapshot created to restore back to a clean machine quickly if needed. 3. Get the App-V sequencing going (but in a particular way) Getting your Adobe software through the… Read more
Sequencing Adobe CS6 for App-V – Part 1, the prep
First off to get one thing clear – YES YOU CAN PUT THE ENTIRE ADOBE CS6 PACKAGE THROUGH APP-V!! I won’t say its easy or simple and you won’t be able to put the entire master collection in a single package but by following the instructions in this series you will be able to do it. As a little background… Read more
VDI Demo Day – After action report
As promised to those that came along to the recent VDI Demo Day the PowerPoint slides are below with the video playlist above. The day covered a wide range of topics from how to setup a Citrix VDI-in-a-Box proof of concept, the options for thin clients from 10zig and how to take things one step further with Application Virtulisation through… Read more
App-Ving Windows Live Essentials
If you have ever tried to push Windows Live Essentials (particularly Movie Maker/Photo gallery) through App-V you may have come across this error… Couldn’t install programs Couldn’t install these programs: Photo Gallery and Movie Maker It looks like another program is preventing the installer from working. Error: 0x80070643 Source: wllogin-amd64 The reason behind this is Windows Live Essentials is trying… Read more
Using MDT and App-V to get PCs to users fast!
This video shows how MDT and App-V can be used to get a OS installed on a PC (can use it with servers as well) in a very hands off way as well a quick over view of the key end user experience of App-V.