App-V Package Adverts in SCCM

App-V package adverts in SCCM should NOT have mandatory assignments with "As soon as possible".

It is very important that App-V package advertisements are NOT set to “As soon as possible”. Advertisements with this setting will NOT rerun when the Update Package Wizard tick box to “Re-run advertisments with existing manditory assignments” is ticked.

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

Audacity 2.0.1 App-V

During the sequencing the CFG files in the %APPDATA% folder are specifically configured to be USER settings. The audacity.cfg file has a blank TempDir= setting because this is written in by the application at runtime. It is important that this setting correctly identifies the currently logged on users’ temp folder location. A typical location is C:\Users\TEMP\AppData\Local\Temp\audacity_temp . The temp folder is created and written to outside of the bubble, but the settings are managed and maintained within the bubble.

A Zoom presentation to a Hyper-V design chart

http://zoom.it/12u8

Office Language Packs

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179145(v=office.14).aspx

Numbers

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  Not packaging and deployment but......

  
  

  Natural = {1,2,3,...}
  Whole = {0,1,2,3,...}
  Integers = {...-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,...}
  Rational Number is a number that can be written in the form j/k where j and k are both Integers.
  Irrational Numbers are numbers that CANNOT be written in the form j/k where j and k are both integers.
  Real Numbers are the union of the Rational and Irrational Numbers.
  Imaginary Numbers are numbers in the form x+yi where x and y are real and i is the square root of -1.
  Complex Numbers is the union of the Real Numbers and the Imaginary Numbers...

Converting 3010 exit code to 0

If the 3010 exit code is causing a problem (perhaps by forcing an unwanted reboot in the middle of a SCCM task sequence reboot) the following property can be set to enable a 0 exit code when 3010 would normally be the result.

MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL=Disable