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Office 2013 and unique AppV PKG Id
Want to generate an Office 2013 package with a unique App-V package id? Use the property PACKAGEGUID! Sample XML See more at the reference documentation!
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Visual Studio 2013 silent install
Visual Studio 2013 is now available through Microsoft Volume Licensing Website, and can also be downloaded through Developer Network. Directly from the Visual Studio-website you can find all editions...
View ArticleSequence Ecowin Pro 6
This is a repost of an old-blog article. This still applies to App-V 5.0, and as far as I remember – this content is not published anywhere else. Since about 2009 and when I first replied to a thread...
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ConfigMgr Client installation failure
Two odd failures from the ConfigMgr client that caused some headaches. StatusAgentProxy.dll fails to register. Verify that MSVCR100.DLL in c:\windows\system32 (yes, on a 64-bit system aswell) is the...
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Never ending reboot prompts
A few servers had continue to request, through the ConfigMgr, a reboot after the servers were, surprise, rebooted due to Windows Updates. Use the below PS code you can see the current state of the...
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Windows Installer Source Management
As part of ensuring that installations work “OK” if initiating a repair regardless of how many servers are terminated or ConfigMgr caches are deleted – here comes a summary of the feature. Whats the...
View ArticleWMI Hotfixes for Windows 7 x64
##################################################WMI##################################################You cannot overwrite an exported event log file by using the Wevtutil.exe tool in Windows 7,...
View ArticleApp-V 5 exclusions
A pre-defined template of App-V 5 exclusions. Trust it, or not! Found here
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App-v and wisptis.exe
Some applications that are virtualized with App-V 5 have caused issues with wisptis.exe – a process to handle the input of pen-enabled devices. Symptoms When an application that uses a .NET...
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Application Virtualization Explorer
Kalle Saunamäki is a reallly deep dive kind of guy. He knows a lot about the App-V 4 filesystem, the App-V 4 client and now he is digesting the App-V 5 client. How does one notice this? Well, he is the...
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AVE: Scripting
This is just some details that showed themselves while using AVE to insert a script for an App-V 5 package. You can choose to insert the script directly into the package, or to a configuration file....
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App-V 5, ConfigMgr compliance and fixes
App-V 5 has recently gotten hit by two odd behaviors relating to an update and .NET Framework 4.5.2. KB2984972 was released as an update for RDC, and caused some havoc both for App-V 4 and App-V 5. The...
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App-V 5.0 SP3 and remote SQL
As App-V 5.0 SP3 has been released it is not only the client that gotten an update, but the App-V Server components has gotten a fresh new installer for the first time since App-V 5.0 SP1. If one is...
View ArticleConfigMgr Client failure – CCMRegisterWinTask
If the SCCM 2012 client fails with a generic 1603 error at the following phase; MSI: Action 7:01:41: CcmSetServiceConfig. Sets WMI ServiceRootDir and configures CCMEXEC service. ccmsetup...
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Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.X on OSX
If you are using ConfigMgr 2012 (or one of the plugins hi-jacking the infrastructure – such as Parallels) to manage the Mac OSX devices there are some caveats to the ordinary guide of both from...
View ArticleMSI EXIT CODE 1935
If the Windows Installer engine fails with a generic exit code of 1935 – I usually spent a few hours troubleshooting the machine in pure nerdy interest. Here are a few tips gathered to save myself and...
View ArticleComputer cleanup – Ask removal
Got a lot of computers with the Ask-suite of toolbars installed? When users are allowed administrative permissions on their end-points this is a likely scenario – here is a minor script bit that will...
View ArticleUninstall Software
Based on the previous post handling the removal of the Ask software (the beloved add-on that everyone joyfully installs along with Java) a more developed script took form to handle any type of...
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ConfigMgr client install – Error 0x80070008. File may be corrupt
While troubleshooting the failure of the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Client to install on a generic Windows 7 x64 installation on a machine we spent numerous hours digesting the following error code that refused...
View ArticleTest-Latency
A need arose to determine the latency to a few different nodes and act on that matter. Someone on the internet had almost already written all the Powershell code I wanted. However the code was...
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