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App-V 5.0 scripts, tips, tutorials and best practises.

Run as Administrator on Windows 10 with App-V 5

Posted on June 1st, 2020

Sometimes when we run an application on Windows 10 we are presented with a prompt saying “Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer?”. This is a User Account Control (UAC) message telling the … Continue reading →

Tagged Integrity, Run As Admin, RunAsInvoker, Suppress UAC, UAC |

App-V 5 and Excel VSTO Add-ins

Posted on April 15th, 2020

We’ve already discussed how we can use App-V 5 to package Excel automation addins with RunVirtual – it’s fairly complex since during registration (and unregistration) of the add-in it dynamically enumerates OPENx registry values.  However using App-V 5 and Excel … Continue reading →

Tagged Excel Add-in, VSTO |

App-V 5 with Excel Automation Addins and RunVirtual

Posted on January 10th, 2020

This blog entry discusses how we can use App-V 5, Connection Groups and RunVirtual to present Excel automation addins to end users. Microsoft Excel addins come in two forms – either an automation addin or a Component Object Model (COM) … Continue reading →

Tagged automation, Connection Group, excel, excel.application, RunVirtual |

Fonts Not Rendering in App-V 5

Posted on November 21st, 2019

I recently sequenced a terminal emulation application that utilised a specific set of fonts for each terminal session, and discovered that the fonts were not rendering correctly in App-V 5. If your fonts don’t render correctly when run inside an … Continue reading →

Tagged Font Subsystem, Fonts |

App-V 5 Scripting Context Test

Posted on November 8th, 2019

I carried out an App-V 5 scripting context test recently so that I could prove which context the various App-V 5 scripts run in (user or system) when added or published to a machine or user. App-V 5 Scripting Test … Continue reading →

Tagged addpackage, app-v 5 scripting, DeploymentConfig.xml, PublishPackage, startprocess, startvirtualenvironment, UserConfig.xml |

Using Junctions with App-V 5 to resolve Path Length Limitations

Posted on October 17th, 2019

This blog explains the process of using junctions with App-V 5 to resolve application issues caused by hard-coded paths or path length limitations. Using Junctions with App-V 5 I was migrating an old application recently which launched Macromedia Director.  It … Continue reading →

Tagged junction, long paths, Symbolic Link |

Restricting Operating Systems in App-V 5

Posted on October 10th, 2019

When restricting operating systems in App-V 5, App-V 5 sees Windows 10 x64 and Windows Server 2016 as the same operating system.  Here we present an alternative method that uses App-V 5 scripting to filter your operating system restrictions for … Continue reading →

Tagged targetos |

Synchronise the App-V 5 Client with the Publishing Server

Posted on July 16th, 2019

When setting up the App-V 5 client, rather than configure it for local testing I wanted to synchronise it with the App-V 5 publishing service.  When we are trying to synchronise the App-V 5 client with the publishing server we … Continue reading →

Tagged Add-AppvPublishingServer, Sync-AppvPublishingServer |

App-V 5 and Terminate Child Process

Posted on May 1st, 2019

I recently packaged an application that, upon launch, started a process which spawned a child process.  The child process remained running after the parent process was closed, and this caused an issue when unpublishing the App-V 5 package.  This blog … Continue reading →

Tagged TerminateChildProcesses |

App-V 5 Package Conversion from App-V 4 to App-V 5

Posted on April 24th, 2019

I’ve been converting a bunch of apps recently from App-V 4.6 format to App-V 5.1 format.  I knew this could be done using PowerShell cmdlets, so rather than reinvent the wheel I used a great script written by Tim Mangan … Continue reading →

Tagged App-V 5 Package Conversion, ConvertFrom-AppvLegacyPackage |

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