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Virtualisation

A new knowledge-base article, released on the 22nd, is available from Microsoft for sequencing Office 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit) with App-V 4.6:
Prescriptive guidance for sequencing the Beta version of the 2010 Office system in Microsoft App-V
It’s interesting to note that the article states that this is not the only way to sequence Office 2010. Does the Office [...]

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App-V 4.6 Released

by Aaron Parker on February 22, 2010

in Virtualisation

Microsoft Application Virtualisation 4.6 (RTM) has been made available, which you can download from the Microsoft Download Centre, including some new and updated support tools:
Microsoft Application Virtualization for Remote Desktop Services 4.6 – Here you can download an ISO that includes the App-V client for RDS/Terminal Server. The ISO includes the server components as well. [...]

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You may recall from my last post on RemoteApp, that we can get RemoteApp for Hyper-V works on other platforms too. While it was straight-forward publishing applications from a Windows 7 host, the client would report this error when connecting to Windows XP and Windows Vista hosts:

Kind of annoying, because the original RemoteApp for Hyper-V post [...]

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App-V Video Series available from Microsoft

by Aaron Parker on February 19, 2010

in Virtualisation

Microsoft has made available a set of 11 videos on App-V. These are mainly introductory, but are still worth watching even if you’ve been working with App-V for some time.
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) separates the application from the operating system preventing application conflicts and enabling the ability to run multiple versions of an application of [...]

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I’m unsure if this is a bug or by design, but if you are using SFTMIME to add packages to an App-V client, you may receive the following error:
The handle is invalid.
Error code: 460579-23C02532-00000006
Which looks something like this:

The issue is in the path to the manifest XML file for the package – when executing the [...]

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RemoteApp for Hyper-V. Hyper what?

by Aaron Parker on December 17, 2009

in Virtualisation

Microsoft posted about RemoteApp for Hyper-V yesterday, which was essentially highlighting the application publishing capabilities available in Windows XP mode and Windows Virtual PC; however this particular blog post calls out the use of RemoteApp to publish applications on Windows XP and Vista guests running under Hyper-V.
It’s fantastic to see this capability provided in the [...]

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Some More Windows Virtual PC Screens

by Aaron Parker on April 30, 2009

in Virtualisation

Of course, Windows Virtual PC has been covered in detail already, but I got a chance to play with the product and there’s some neat UI experiences that I hadn’t seen covered yet. Here’s a quick overview of interacting with Windows Virtual PC.
Windows Virtual PC gets a spanking new icon:

Once installed, Virtual PC actually creates [...]

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