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App-V 5.0 SP2 and pending removal / update

A new feature, that is only announced on Thamim Karims blog, is the pending state of the App-V 5.0 SP2 client. Previously I covered the new virtual extensions, the user interface removal and new config...

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App-V 5 and Citrix

There is a great new whitepaper released by Microsoft dealing with different deployment scenarios when it comes to Citrix products. As Citrix announced the end of life for their Application Streaming –...

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App-V 5 and Virtual Extensions

Which virtual extensions within App-V 5 are only available if the package is published globally? See this table! I also decided to include a pointer if the target OS is relevant when sequencing. If it...

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Adobe Acrobat XI and AppV 5

Adobe Acrobat (along with any other Adobe software) has always been something people want to virtualize due to different reasons. In larger organizations the primary driver for this has been the poor...

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Create Application

During a project I created a specific tool to ease the insert of applications within SCCM 2012. It was only tested for SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3 and on Windows 7 x64, with Windows Management Framework 3.0....

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European App-V User Group 2014

Schedule is not yet finalized, however it looks like LoginConsultants will bring the European App-V User Group once again at the Microsoft office in Amsterdam See the previous videos which we posted!...

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ArcReader 10.2 sequenced

ArcReader is a great viewing tool used through many organizations. I wouldn’t necessary force it to be virtualized primarily for one reason; It is delivered by ESRI (the company making the software) as...

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Identify CustomActions using Process Monitor

SysInternals has for a long time provided us with the valuable tool Process Monitor, which everyday presents new use cases. While troubleshooting an installation that seemed to be running a specific...

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Oracle Java JRE 7 Update 51 MST

I created an MST-file for the Oracle JRE 7 Update 51 MSI and thought it would be a good idea to make it available for download. Do note that in JRE 7 U45 there is a new exception-list which can be...

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App-V 5 Error codes

As App-V 5 introduces lots of new error codes – here comes a summary of a few of them. After reviewing a few of the error codes there are some great sharing among people who are writing blog-articles!...

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Adobe Reader Security – Trusted certificates

When Adobe Reader XI 11.0.0.6 was released there was suddenly a new pop-up once you open Adobe Reader for the first time, and had settings in the profile from an older Adobe Reader X installation. The...

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Redistribute Failed Packages in ConfigMgr

Since the topic of redistributing failed packages is quite often surfacing in larger environments and there are quite a few PowerShell scripts out there to achieve this. David O´Brien has written a...

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Apple itunes 11.1.4 and Software License agreement (and Process Monitor)

After discussing the an upgrade of iTunes throughout the organization and the implications of suppressing the forced Software License Agreement within iTunes on the initial launch I decided to go on a...

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Adobe Creative Cloud and integration (and the challenge with AppV)

Adobe Creative Cloud is the latest way that Adobe will now offer software on a subscription model (or software as a service, or the cloud, or… well whats the new buzzword?). This allows customers to...

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SMART Notebook 11.4 and App-V 5.0

After some discussion during AppV User Group in Amsterdam about sequencing SMART Notebook I decided to post some steps and topics that could show up when sequencing SMART Notebook with App-V 5.0 SP2....

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AppVUG 2014 Presentation – App-V Five-O

Per popular request.   App-V Five-O

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Adobe PDF Addon download

Previously I discussed the deployment of Adobe PDF Addon with a virtualized instance of Adobe Acrobat. The Adobe PDF Addon is also known as the Adobe PDF Printer or the Adobe Distiller. In the end –...

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AppsNotify – Ping the Application Catalog

One downside with Configuration Manager 2012 compared to Configuration Manager 2007 is that applications deployed to users, only made available, will not give a notification on the endpoint. This...

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App-V 5 clean uninstall

Did you uninstall an App-V 5 client, and expected that it would cleanup after the mess it created? Well, not all the time. After some interesting encounters – here is a small cleanup-list; Remove the...

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Office 365 / 2013 and App-V – Exclude apps

With the latest release (June 5) of Office Deployment Tool there is the ability to exclude applications when creating a package. For example, if you don’t want to deploy – say Lync? – even though you...

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