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With the popularity of Microsoft App-V growing like crazy it seems there's always a fresh stream of folks who are new to the product and looking for some resources to help them get up to speed fast.  If this is you, or you just want a refresher to make sure you're making the most of the product, we have a couple virtual labs that should really fit the bill.  Sure whitepapers are nice but nothing is better than a lab where you can actually use the product and implement the concepts first hand.

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TechNet Virtual Lab: Learning App-V Basics

The following scenarios are used to show the end-to-end process of creating, publishing and delivering a virtual application:

- Sequence

- Publish

- Deliver a Virtual Application using the App-V Full Infrastructure

In this lab, you will experience the lifecycle of a virtual application from creation to delivery

A few days ago I came across an issue where my SharePoint site was taking a long time to load when I was using Microsoft App-V with Office 2010 and had the proxies enabled.

Let's start with a little background first

Here's an interesting issue I ran across recently so I thought it would be a good idea to post what I found here in case anyone else happens to see it.  As you may already know, there's no automated way to delete App-V servers from the App-V MMC so we created a blog post explaining an easy workaround for it, but what if the App-V Management Console snap-in doesn’t show up as available at all?  If that's the case then the steps in that blog post won’t help

My name is Elliott Morris, manager of what's known within Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business as the "War on Cost team." The team’s role is to collect operational data from business and public sector customers to understand their costs for deploying, operating and managing Microsoft server and desktop software

Symptoms

A virtualized application on an App-V client fails to launch with the following error:
The Application Virtualization Client could not launch application name

We posted this solution a while back but it's proven to be so popular that it was converted to an official Knowledge Base article.  You can find our original post here but the test of the KB is below:

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Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:
1.  You install the App-v 4.x server and set the packageroot (content directory) to an alternate location (not the default)

One advantage of the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer is the capability of running via the command line

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Preamble: The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to memory management and explain why we’re taking the approach we are with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

Hi readers,

Due to the planned MSDN/TechNet blog upgrade, we have to re-post blogs posted during the week of May 17.  We wanted you to know you'll be seeing 2-3 posts again

At HP's Tech Forum conference, HP started to market a VDI reference architecture, and deployment offer, with us and Citrix