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Documentation updates for Microsoft App-V 4.5 Service Pack 2

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

As I'm sure everyone is aware of by now, Microsoft App-V 4.5 SP2 was released last week and is now available for download, but what about the documentation that goes along with it? Well you can rest assured that our writers have been all over this and have updated our documentation to reflect the changes and additions for Service Pack 2. The “About SP2” topic is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff699129.aspx and the SP2 release notes topic is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff699130.aspx.

For information on Microsoft application Virtualization 4.5 Service Pack 2, how to get it and the known issues, see the following KB article:

KB980847 - Description of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Service Pack 2

J.C

Repost: Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 5…

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:55 +0000

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Preamble: The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to memory management and explain why we’re taking the approach we are with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

Opportunity to participate in an online discussion on future features of Microsoft App-V

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

The Microsoft App-V product group is conducting an online discussion on June 10, 2010 and June 15,2010 aimed at naming features in the future versions of App-V and is recruiting IT professionals

Solution: Using the Refresh Server option to refresh a Publishing Server from the Microsoft Application Virtualization Client MMC snap-in results in error code 04-00000917

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

When you use the Refresh Server option to refresh a Publishing Server from the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Client MMC snap-in, you may receive the following error message:

The Application Virtualization Client could not update publishing information from the server server name

Operations Manager 2007 may not discover your App-V 4.5 Servers if installed on a 64-bit platform

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

If you have installed the Microsoft App-V Management Pack and are wondering why System Center Operations Manager 2007 has failed to detect and to monitor these servers as App-V Servers, then it may be because you have installed App-V 4.5 on an x64 system.

This is due to the fact that the App-V 4.5 server is a 32-bit application, and so writes its information to the 32-bit area of the registry. On an 64-bit machine, this means it writes its information to the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\SoftGrid\4.5 area of the registry, rather than HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SoftGrid\4.5. This is a potential problem because OpsMgr uses the App-V registry keys to decide if a machine is indeed an App-V server. Since the OpsMgr agent on an x64 server is a 64-bit program, it will look in the standard registry location for the App-V registry keys

Linux Integration Services v2.1 Now Available

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

We are really excited to announce the availability of the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services for Linux Version 2.1

Troubleshooting App-V error 0A-400000C8

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

Yesterday I got an interesting email from a Mr

The App-V 4.6 for RDS whitepaper is now available

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

This whitepaper discusses the benefits, configurations and considerations when planning a Microsoft® Windows Server® Remote Desktop Services solution with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App?V®), and while I could probably write up a big long summary and post it here, probably the best way to let you know what's in it is to show the table of contents:

If you run App-V 4.6 on your Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) servers then you definitely owe it to yourself to check this one out. You can download the whitepaper here.

J.C

Deja vu: blogs from week of May 17

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:55 +0000

Hi readers,

Due to the planned MSDN/TechNet blog upgrade, we have to re-post blogs posted during the week of May 17. We wanted you to know you'll be seeing 2-3 posts again

VDI reference architecture with HP and Citrix

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:55 +0000

At HP's Tech Forum conference, HP started to market a VDI reference architecture, and deployment offer, with us and Citrix