UPDATED: Best Practices for Application Virtualization (App-V)
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Since previous video had some technical issues, updated the blog with the new one. This webinar is from Steve Thomas explaining current best practices for App-V.
When uninstalling office 365 silently, it is failing only when any applications like word, excel are kept open. This is because during uninstall, office checks for any running applications and prompts the user to close it which is not happening in silent uninstall. When uninstalling in UI mode, it prompts to close when any office apps are open. Since in silent mode office is not able to do this, it fails with an error code 17002. You can check in the log file for the error code 17002. To overcome this just add the property FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN with Value="True" in the uninstall config.xml file. This property will force shutdown any running office apps. Example: <Configuration> <Remove> <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail" > <Language ID="en-us" /> </Product> </Remove> <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="TRUE" /> <Display Level="None"/> <Logging Path="c:\temp\" Name...
Check the official KB article to download the hotfix. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3139245 This hotfix resolves many issues that were reported earlier like vfs folder not getting released when user logs off etc..
Earlier back in 2016 when Microsoft released Project centennail, I have blogged about it which you can find here To know more about Desktop bridge and UWP conversion have a look here Recently Advanced Installer has released a free express edition which is a GUI based tool to simplify the process of converting legacy exe/msi to appx format.They have also stated to support the new MSIX format in their upcoming release. You can download the free Advanced Installer express version here . Pre-Req: Install windows sdk from here After downloading install the windows sdk first and then install the Advanced Installer express edition in a clean virtual machine.After Installing you will be prompted to register using your mail ID to get the free license .After validating click on new and select the Convert Desktop App as shown below and click next. Provide the setup path (msi/exe) and add any parameters if you wish to add.In this example I have used google chrome msi package to...
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