Windows8 Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation Player 12.0

Although VMWare Workstation Player 12 will install on a Windows 8 PC with the Hyper-V feature enabled, it will not launch a virtual machine (VM) that is created until the Hyper-V Platform subfeature is unchecked and the PC rebooted several times.

Manual Connection Group Configuration

Use the following XML to generate the Connection Group definition XML file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AppConnectionGroup AppConnectionGroupId="06DACB3C-10E8-444F-A3FB-646F695BD21D" VersionId="5E9249E4-0D2C-4F8C-8BB2-708288294FD4" Priority="0" DisplayName="<NAME>" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appv/2010/virtualapplicationconnectiongroup">
<Packages>
<Package PackageId="a3020438-47ff-4041-9c03-b78255c82c10" VersionId="5b2ba854-92d9-4c4b-b855-837748349f29">
</Package>
<Package PackageId="aaea7d7c-79e0-43f8-88eb-4ae8f6d0692e" VersionId="e3b074a5-51ff-4d4c-8dc0-6a15ad6a37e6">
</Package>
</Packages>
</AppConnectionGroup>

Add-AppvClientConnectionGroup -path <path to xml file>

Once the packages in the connection group are published, then the connection group can be enabled

Enable-AppvClientConnectionGroup <NAME> 


The following message can appear when a connection group in enabled
 
The application failed to launch.
This may be due to a network failure 

This can be caused by the Advanced settings inside the packages not being the exactly the same. 

Connection Group Reference

See this article for the "Laws of Connection Groups"
http://virtualvibes.co.uk/advanced-connection-groups-the-sanity-check/ 

http://virtualvibes.co.uk/app-v-management-server-or-configuration-manager-2012-a-feature-comparison/


Config XML details
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-desktop-optimization-pack/appv-v5/about-the-connection-group-file 

ProgramFilesX86S and the other S folders

User VFS, the COW and the S folders.....

Standard users will read and write from the regular directory (with relaxed ACL’s) while elevated processes will read and write to the “S” version.

This is further explained here

http://blogs.technet.com/b/gladiatormsft/archive/2014/08/29/app-v-5-on-the-now-sometimes-immutable-package-cache-location.aspx