The Internet Explorer Maintenance options in group policy are no longer enabled or supported in IE 10. Previously we used this for setting the users homepage, publishing a few company defined favorites and the Proxy server / pac file. In order to facilitate the same / similar functionality you need to use GPP, but this […]
We had an instance where the SQL Server would start but the SQL Server Agent using the same account was unable to start with an Access Denied error. STEPS 1) check that the service account is not locked out in AD 2) check that the ‘log on as a service’ rights are still valid and […]
Situation: we had recently repackaged a new verson of an applicaiton and though the ucn path had changed, the APP-V name was identical. Error: The Application Virtualization Client cannot use the OSD file specified because the GUID attribute for the CODEBASE element changed (rc 0C403B04-00001004). Solution: under sftcmc.msc the properties of the app showed the OSD file pointing to the previous […]
Scenario: A password protected printer, where the password changes every month. We had to manually enter the new password when our PVS images were rebooted, as we didnt want to update the PVS image with just a password change (we hadnt introduced DFS-R for the PVS image management so it was manual and time consuming) Solution: EXPORT the settings to a […]
Setting the following keys will allow app-v packages to be installed from the packages MSI (if the option is ticked for said package when sequencing) this should then allow for the packages to be run in offline / disconnect mode indefinitely. MSI Install Example: msiexec.exe /i “app-v msi package” sftpath=”path to matching package sft file” Registry […]
During sequencing and app-v application after sequencing and then runing the first stream for optimisation – the package can launch but not quit out. The following fixes have worked for me on various occasions 1. <IMPLEMENTATION> <CODEBASE HREF=”RTSP://%streamingserver%/PACKAGEPATH/PACKAGENAME.sft” GUID=”BLAH-BLAH” PARAMETERS=”” FILENAME=”PACKAGEPATHEXECUTABLE.exe” SYSGUARDFILE=”PACKAGEPATHosguard.cp” SIZE=”163917615″/> <VIRTUALENV TERMINATECHILDREN=”TRUE”> <POLICIES> <LOCAL_INTERACTION_ALLOWED>FALSE</LOCAL_INTERACTION_ALLOWED> </VM> </IMPLEMENTATION> 2. The application had a printer driver […]
Scenario: When trying to join a domain with any windows flacour pc or server sometimes you will get the following ambigious error. The network is UP, the machine is pingable and DNS resolves as expected. Error Message: The Following error occured attempting to join the domain “”: The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, […]
Situation: After a server refresh from Windows 2008 SP1 to Windows 2008 R2 – we were unable to connect to ANY share on a windows 2000 client. Other servers like windows 2003 server could connect fine Our previous SOE desktop running windows 2008 SP2 was also ok. Server 2008 SP2 and Server 2008 R2 server images out […]
Problem: When selecting an EFI partition / volume in Microsoft windows diskpart and entering the DELETE command diskpart crashes. Solution: Use CLEAN instead of the DELETE command.
Error Message: “The application vistualization sequencer did not shutdown successgfully the last time the sequencer was user. Please reboot your sustem before using the Application Virtualization sequencer” Resolution: Simply delete the following registry key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftSoftGrid4.5SequencerSeqLastStartTime]=dword:4fd5f977