MSI, App-V, SCCM, Appsense, Citrix. This blog contains hints and tips on these technologies. Primarily it is an online notebook of items that I may need to refer to in the future, or things I constantly forget!
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Use caution if the User Data Directory is changed in the App-V 4.6 Client
Use caution if the User Data Directory setting is changed in the Application Virtualisation Client.
For example changing it to %LOCALAPPDATA% causes files like usrvol_sftfs_v1.pkg.BAD to be created. The BAD extension indicates that the file is not valid and the user settings will not be saved.
If the %APPDATA%\SoftGrid Client need to be prevented from roaming then this should be set as a roaming excluded folder in a GPO. Target registry key is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon ExcludeProfileDirs REG_SZ AppData\Local;AppData\LocalLow;$Recycle.Bin
More discussion of the BAD file occurances
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/appvgeneralsequencing/thread/b13cf46f-b3dc-4c37-9a52-40bf124b7982