App-V 5 Management Server DB on Remote Machine Configuration

Well here was a wasted hour trying to figure this one out.  It should have been so easy!

Problem: Installed a lab App-V 5 Management/Publishing Server with default instance database on that server.  Works great.  Install second Management/Publishing server needing to use the remote database.  Fails.

What could have been the problem: (but wasn’t)

  • Windows Firewall on first server with
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On Streaming and Formats in App-V

On Streaming and Formats in App-V

Tim Mangan
TMurgent Technologies, LLP
September 22, 2014
Related Product:  App-V 5.0 SP2 HF5 and prior

When we created the original application virtualization product, SoftGrid, streaming was a very important part of the implementation.  Over the years, the streaming aspect has become less important to implementations, while remaining important to the decision makers that …

Errror 000012 on Add-AppvClientPackage

A customer was using XenApp with PVS. The same PVS image was used on machines on a farm. They added App-V 5 to the PVS image and decided to use the PowerShell interface to add applications virtually at boot time. One of the servers refused every app, while everything else worked on the ‘identical’ servers.

Investigation showed that the Add …

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App-V 5 Error C8007005 Plus Removing App-V Client after Hotfixes

Here is the scenario.

I had my Windows 8 x64 desktop with App-V 5.0 SP2 installed and had added Hotfix 5. All was well.

I upgraded to Windows 8.1. Current packages continued working fine. Decided to add another package. I received error C8007005 on Add-AppVClientPackage. After researching and trying some things, I eventually tried an old package that worked elsewhere …

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App-V 5 SP2 HotFix 4 is more than a hotfix

Here is my explanation: Someone at Microsoft has been taking lessons on how to name product releases from Citrix. There really can be no other explanation for App-V 5.0 Service Pack 2 Hotfix 4. It is full of features. I mean, why not call it release 5.1 (or 5.3)? Or maybe Service pack 3? Surely they know how to build …

App-V 5 and Services that are not LocalSystem

In writing some apps for some APP-V 5 performance testing, I stumbled on a problem that was at least new to me.

I know that in App-V 5 the client will only run Virtual Services under the Local System account. But I didn’t know that it totally ignored the others, I thought it captured them and just changed the account. …