Comments on: Implementing App-V – Part II: Choosing and Preparing the Environment http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:32:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jseth http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-4120 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:47:22 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-4120 May I suggest that in the SQL Considerations section, to add an item #8 Start the SQL Browser Service. I was not able to see the server in the dropdown, and apparently did not configure something correctly when I wntered the info manually, however I did find (eventually) in another article, that starting the SQL browser service allows will make the local SQL server appear in the dropdown list, then when it is selected from the dropdown list, App-V installs itself perfectly. At least, it resolved one issue after another that I was having with starting the App-V service. I hope this may be helpful. Thank you for your work, your tutorials are helpful beyond words.

]]> By: Augusto Alvarez http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1977 Sat, 07 May 2011 18:20:36 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1977 Hello Rudy,
Thanks a lot for your comment. I do enjoy sharing my experience and knowledge with the community; not only you get the chance to assist other people, you also learn a lot in the way.
Best regards,
Augusto

]]> By: Rudy @ Triniti http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1975 Sat, 07 May 2011 18:11:22 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1975 Great series of articles…

I have huge respect for people such as yourself that take the time to share their knowledge to the technical community.

If you are ever in Vancouver, dinner and drinks are on me!

]]> By: Augusto Alvarez http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1818 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:28:14 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1818 Hello Samuel,
The recommendation is to use the same OS for the Sequencer and Client machines, not only that, both OS should maintain the same configuration and baseline. But to answer your question, yes, Windows Server 2008 R2 can be used as a Desktop Client.
App-V for Remote Desktop Services (formerly known as Terminal Services) is a different installer with a different purpose than the App-V Desktop Client. You should use that one on a Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Remote Desktop Services role installed and if you are planning to publish applications from RDS but using App-V.
Hope it helps,
Augusto

]]> By: Samuel http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1783 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:50:04 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1783 Hello Augusto,
I have installed App-V 4.5 management server on windows 2008 server R2, App-V sequencer on windows 7 Enterprise, and App-V Desktop client on windows 2008 server R2. But when i refresh the publishing server in app-v client, the application virtual that I sequence didn’t appear.

my question are:
- can windows 2008 R2 use App-V Desktop client ?
- do i have to use app-v TS client to publish application virtual ?

thx
Samuel

]]> By: APP-V Management Server AND SQL 2005/2008 Express on Server 2003 R2 http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1622 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:16:12 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1622 [...] http://appvid.blogspot.com/http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2010/03/app-v-management-server-setup-and-sql-server-configuration/http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-e... [...]

]]> By: Sharron Clemons http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1160 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:19:52 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-1160 [...] involved in App-V (Post I); installation of the App-V Server including some troubleshooting tips (Post II); integrating App-V client components, testing the default application and some troubleshooting [...]

]]> By: Sergio Benavides http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-968 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:31:13 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-968 Agusto,

What would be the steps needed to setup the enviroment if i just want to to do Stand-Alone Mode, we have something similar to SCCM to deploy the software in our enviroment

Thanks Che!

]]> By: Augusto Alvarez http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-901 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:18:25 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-901 Hello Roy,
I’ve been working with W2K8 R2 and SQL 2008 SP1 with no problems detected, I did not see any issues detected with R2 version of SQL.
Did you try using SQL 2008 SP1?
Cheers!
Augusto

]]> By: Augusto Alvarez http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-900 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:15:55 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-900 Hello Charbel,
If you are using a default instance for the SQL Server, you can still try using the name of the server to connect to the database.
I had the same scenario and was easily solved just by inserting the server name.
Hope it helps,
Cheers!
Augusto

]]> By: Charbel Nemnom http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-879 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:21:46 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-879 Hello Augusto,

I’m trying to set up a new environment for App-V using 4.5SP2 version.
My management server is Win 2008 R2 64, I have installed IIS and SQL 2008 Express SP1 on the same Box (enabling TCP/IP and name pipe for SQL), then I start installing App-V management server, the problem is that the App-V cannot detect the SQL Express 2008 during the installation process, weird and the SQL express has been already installed on the same machine!!!

N.B: I have tried SQL 2008R2 Express x64, same problem.

Please any help!
Thank You…

]]> By: Paul Linton http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-877 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:22:51 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-877 Hello Augusto,

Great articles by the way. I’m struggling with sequencing Office 2010. I followed your instructions on sequencing apps and have had success with other apps. For this one though, I also used instructions found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983462. Like Charbel, I am also receiving the error:
The operating system is not presently configured to run this application…

My environment is Windows Server 2008 R2 for both the sequencer and the client. I am using Office 2010 Pro Plus (64bit). Any thoughts on how to fix this error?

Other apps work great on the machine, just not Office.

]]> By: Roy Wilson http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-844 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:14:56 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-844 Hi Augusto,
I’m trying to set up an environment to test App-V. I’m currently trying 4.6 on and 64 bit 2008 R2 server with SQL 2008 R2 and I’m struggling. With your experience do you think this config is viable or should I use older releases of the components? I can open a Management Console, but there are no apps and I’m sure I should see a default one. Regards Roy

]]> By: Augusto Alvarez http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-843 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:17:01 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-843 Hello Charbel,
I’m assuming you are having these problems because there are two things which are not supported:
1. Sequencing the application on a different operating system from which the virtual application is actually executed.
2. Running Microsoft Office in a Embedded OS is also not supported. Check this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940172.aspx
Hope it helps,
Cheers!
Augusto

]]> By: Charbel Nemnom http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-842 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:46:29 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-842 Dear Augusto,

I have implemented App-V 4.5 SP2 (App-Server, Sequencer and client) for Windows Desktops…

I have been created the Office package using Sequencer under Hyper-V ‘Windows XP clean copy’ .
when I’m trying to open any office application on my HP thin client T5740e (Windows Embedded Standard 2009) I’m receiving the following error:

The operating system is not presently configured to run this application…

Please I need your help…
Antivirus is disabled, and I followed step by step the article below:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2008/07/30/softgrid-sequencing-office-professional-2007-in-30-easy-steps.aspx

Without success same problem…
However I launched all office 2007 from the Sequencer before generate the package, everything was fine, every single office application launched successfully…

I found out these error logs on the client side:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 8/25/2010
Time: 2:27:45 AM
User: HPDEMO\student
Computer: LAB-01
Description:
Detection of product ‘{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}’,
feature ‘ProductFiles’ failed during request for component ‘{0638C49D-BB8B-4CD1-B191-050E8F325736}’

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1004
Date: 8/25/2010
Time: 2:27:44 AM
User: HPDEMO\student
Computer: LAB-01
Description:
Detection of product ‘{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}’,
feature ‘ProductFiles’, component ‘{CC29E973-7BC2-11D1-A921-00A0C91E2AA2}’ failed.
The resource ‘C:\Windows\system32\FM20.DLL’ does not exist.

However I attempt to replace the DLL file missing on the client side, MS Word ask for the office CD…
I sequenced many other applications, all is ok without any problem…
The problem is the Office 2007…

Please I need your help!
Thank You!

Cheers,

]]> By: Charbel Nemnom http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-837 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:44:27 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-837 Hello Augusto,

Thank you for the reply!
well I found the problem, I forget to select Windows Authentication check mark in WEB SERVER Role.
I have installed IIS 7.5 without selecting in web server the windows authentication method!

Is there anywhere I can find a full video tutorial for APP-V?
Ur 4 posts helped me a lot in my installation… Thx!
What is the difference between APP-V 4.5 SP1 and the new version 4.6?
Another question please: There is 2 versions of APP-V, one for RDS(TS) and one for Windows desktops…
I’m using the Desktop version… what is the difference between these two?

Regards,

–Charbel–

]]> By: Augusto Alvarez http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-836 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:20:53 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-836 Hello Charbel,
Did you try executing the App-V MMC from a different computer?
Cheers,
Augusto

]]> By: Charbel Nemnom http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-835 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:11:06 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-835 Dear Augusto Alvarez,

I have configured a demo environment using App-V 4.5 SP1.
I have win 2008 R2, AD, DNS and IIS 7.5, SQL 2005 SP3.
I have installed APP-V server, when I open APP-V mmc and try to connect to Application Virtualization System, I received the following error…

Unable to log into the SoftGrid System.
Invalid user name or password.
Error code: 0000C801

I look into http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930470, but without success…

Please I need a help

Thank you,

]]> By: Installing Microsoft App-V Management Server « VMnick http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-828 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:24:17 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-828 [...] Part 2 Choosing and Preparing the Environment [...]

]]> By: KQ http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-726 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:49:30 +0000 http://augustoalvarez.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/implementing-app-v-part-ii-choosing-and-preparing-the-environment/#comment-726 YOU BEAUTY! Thanks for all the effort in creating this guide doco.

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