Category Archives: Deployment

Delivering Office with App-V – The Need for Profile Management

Because Office is a core application of most desktop deployments, user interaction with Office and the user experience are important factors in the deployment of Office. From an administration perspective, providing a seamless user experience requires managing the user preferences … Continue reading

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Comparing User Profiles Sizes for Microsoft Office Suites

I’ve been doing some work recently virtualizing various versions of Office in App-V plus managing user preferences for those Office packages. Here’s something interesting that I’ve found – the size of the profile settings for a default installation of Office … Continue reading

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Delivering Office with App-V – Error 0×80070424 installing the Office 2010 Deployment Kit

If you have issues installing the Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V (OffVirt.msi) to install the licensing component for a virtualized Office 2010 package, it may fail to install. A typical command line to install the licensing component look like … Continue reading

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Deploying Adobe Reader X

Update 20 June 2011: updated for Reader 10.1. Release notes for 10.1 can be found here. Adobe Reader X is here and with the new protected mode feature to improve security you should be considering your deployment plans now. Note: … Continue reading

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App-V FAQ: Can I use Active Upgrade without RTSP(S)?

Today’s FAQ has been written by Justin Zarb, all around good guy and a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft in the UK. You can read more App-V articles written by Justin at his blog: appvguy.com This terminology is a little … Continue reading

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