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Question: Even though when application is closed and no process or child process is running behind, unpublishing the package still shows application is in use and creates a Pending Task entry in the registry key. What is the reason? why it fails? Answer: This issue is happening because of the Dynamic Virtualization (Just In Time virtualization) provided by the App-V 5.0 SP2 and higher.  There are some applications like office, visio etc which has shell integration's that tightly integrates with the Explorer and Internet Explorer by default and are processed to use the virtual components. This is to enable support for enhanced shell extensions like context menu, drag and drop handler, drop target handler,data object handler,property sheet handler,infotip handler,column handler and preview handler. Closing the running application, Internet explorer and trying to unpublish still shows "App in use" error.Even if we try to run the Stop-AppvClientPackage command in an elevat...

Download the source and extract the windows installer (.msi) file from %temp% location. Start the sequencing step using App-V 5.1 Sequencer. 1. Select create a new virtual package. 2. Select create package. 3. Select standard package. 4. Select custom installation. 5. Type the name of the virtual package as WinZip 19.0. Click Next and run the installation of the msi file in the CMD as shown below.   If you want to customize further using the PUBLIC Properties during installation with the msi, have a look in the below links. http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/11 http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/229/ Remove the desktop shortcut. 6. Click I am finished Installing once installation is completed. 7. In the configure software phase, launch the main shortcut and enter the registration details if you already have. Once the application opens, close it. Do this for at least 2 - 3 times. Launch again and keep the shortcut open and run the following command in CMD Prompt.   reg add "HKCU\Software...

Recently I have seen many queries in Technet and other groups about whether there is an App-V 5.1 client GUI available or they couldn't see the client GUI after installing App-V 5.1 client. So let me clear this confusion first. Microsoft doesn't provide a client GUI for App-V 5.1.Though it has stated in the below links that there is an UI available for App-V 5.1, it doesn't provide any link to download nor has a separate shortcut which I confirmed by opening the MSI and had a look for any client UI shortcut. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346490%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346576%28v=vs.85%29.aspx (Have posted in Technet about this false informations. check HERE .Hope MS will look into it.)  We already know that it stopped providing GUI from App-V 5.0 SP2. Beginning App-V 5.0 SP2, Microsoft started providing a separate client GUI which can be downloaded from the below link. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.a...

There are some possible ways to make sequenced add-on work with the locally installed office product. I have listed them below. You can use whichever method suits your need. 1.Create shortcut to local excel: Install the Microsoft office product locally in the machine prior to sequencing. Open the sequencer and select Add-on or plugin option. select I have installed the primary package and click next.  Enter the virtual package name Install the Adobe Analytics Add-in . Create a shortcut for excel during monitoring phase and launch it to verify the Adobe Analytics addin. End the sequence and save the package. In the client side make sure that Office product is installed locally prior to publishing of Adobe Analytics virtual package. 2. Using /appvve: Alternatively, if you do not want to create a separate shortcut while sequencing you can make use of /appvve: Eg: Excel.exe /appvve:ProductID_versionID Alternatively, if it shows error try like below. cmd.exe /...

Question: When trying to run the App-V 5.1 or App-V 5.0 SP3 created MSI in the client machine, it fails with the error code 0300000102. How to resolve this. Corresponding Event log: Solution: Try running the CMD as Administrator and from here run the MSI file.This will resolve the issue. The MSI requires Admin privileges to run in the client machine. Ok, now this works but what might be the reason? This comes into everyone's mind. Let me explain further. Opened the App-V 5.1 sequenced MSI package and first checked in the Launch Condition table using ORCA. I see that there is a Privileged condition. I removed it by creating a Transforms file for the MSI. Tried Installing again and even this time it failed. Analyzed further by opening the MSI template file for App-V 5.0 SP2. The msi will be located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Application Virtualization\Sequencer\en-US I see that the Custom Action PublishPackage32 and PublishPackage64 has Type to run in deferred execution in system...

Hi folks, hope everything is going fine. First I would like to  thank all for your tremendous support. It's a sunny weekend here and I am sitting in home and blogging . Previously, one of my distance friend who is an App-V engineer asked me to help him with an issue he was facing when launching virtualized SAP GUI 7.40. When launching the SAP logon shortcut, he was facing this issue. When clicking yes, it prompts the below information. First and more most tool that helps us is the great handy PROCMON tool. When analyzing the issue it showed that the shortcut is looking for sncgss32.dll and it couldn't find it.We manually searched in the App-V location and yes we couldn't find it anywhere. We installed the source manually in a fresh machine and searched for the sncgss32.dll and we couldn't find it anywhere. Then comes our friend Google. we searched what might be the reason for failure. We found that it needed an  environment variable SNC_LIB of the client host system set...

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..

Question : What happens when we unpublish an application that is in use in App-V 5.1? We see that the unpublish is getting failed, but when we launch the shortcut, it doesn't work.What is the issue? Answer : Lets take an example by publishing the Mozilla Firefox App-V 5.0 package in a standalone machine using Powershell. Launched the shortcut and everything works fine. Now tried to unpublish by keeping mozilla firefox open(in-use).We are seeing the below "Currently in use" error. We can see that the unpublishing has failed. Nothing has changed to the mozilla application. Shortcuts are seen in the Start menu etc. But when we try to launch the shortcut, we see this error. When analyzed more by checking in event viewer, we see the below entry. The package has been scheduled to be unpublished during restart/reboot. How this works? The App-V client creates an entry in pendingtasks registry for the particular application with its ProductGUID_VersionGUID. REASON:  With App-V 5...

1)  Launch the Microsoft Application Virtualization Sequencer from Start-> All Programs 2)  Select the create package (default) option. 3) Select the "Standard application" type in the type of application to be sequenced.  4)  Select "Perform a custom installation" in the select installer screen and click next. 5) Provide the virtual application name as VLC Media Player and click next. 6) Install the VLC Media player application now. Uncheck Desktop shortcut option. Uncheck Run Vlc Media Player option and click finish. 7) Once Installation is completed, Select "I am finished Installing" and click next.                                     8) In the configure Phase, launch the required shortcuts and perform custom changes if needed and remove unwanted shortcuts. Here we have removed all unwanted shortcuts other than the main VLC Media Player shortcut. Launched it and unch...