List of successful sequenced Microsoft application
Many people working with App-V always have the same question.
Could it be sequenced ?
There are two entries at The App-V Blog that gives us a hint which softwaren can not be sequenced.
It would be simply great if Microsoft can provide the virtual community a list with already successful sequenced Microsoft products.
V me app- Stevie !
vkleinerde
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Hi,
At BriForum 2008 in Chicago Shawn Bass and I presented the "top10 challenges wih SoftGrid (and other Application Virtualization solutions"). App-V is a great solution, but there (as always) some challenges which are very usefull to understand. Hopefully this presentation will give an overview and makes sense for you.
http://www.virtuall.nl/seminars/BriForum2008/BriForum08Top10challengeswithSGandOthers.pdf
With regards,
Ruben
- Proposed As Answer byTim ManganMVP, AnswererFriday, July 10, 2009 9:59 PM
Hi Ruben,
thanks for the additional Information.
I think also, that App-V is a brilliant solution to virtualize software. In the last two and a half year I sequenced successful about 160 non Microsoft software packages.
I do not expect a software compatibility list per App-V for non Microsoft products – because it´s impossible.
But It would be helpful to have a clear conclusion from the vendor self, which of their own products can be virtualized.
Kind regards
Volker
PS: I would like to order a dozen packages from page 103 of your presentation
While Microsoft could very well know (or then again, maybe not since there's been quite a few MS products during the course of history) which of their products can and can not be sequenced, I think it might be bit sensitive issue to publish such list (or possibly embarassing). So don't expect that anytime soon ;-)
/Kalle
Well, I can agree with the above statement. But instead I can post on what I had in place locally on my laptop due to customer requirements and harddrive space availability and have "successfully" sequenced wiht the 4.5 RC0 sequencer.
(yeah I am currently bored...)
Qlikview 8.2 - Analyzer only (don't have a license key - thats why ...)
PL SQL Dev 7.0.3
Solid Edge Viewer 19
Virtual Dimension
Foxit Reader
Acrobat Reader 9
Mind Manager Viewer 7
SAP 7.1 + bunch of patches + BI
HKSFV (still no context menus...?)
Hyperion BI 9i+ Administration Services (I think it is?) + jre 1.6 u7
Winrar works, but since the only way I access it is the right click menu I get on folders / files - whats the point?
Seriously, biggest "flaw" yet when it comes to SG. Just lika FTA the client should be able to manage those....
Currently I am left to scan the registry to "manually" insert the correct keys and reference my package. Thats UGLY! Its COMPLICATED and should really be involved in the monitoring process and possible to deploy!
DWG Trueview 2009 starts, but throughs up a bunch of errors. I see this as a deployment issue and not a virtualization issue. Really - why do the trueview application always has to be so hard?
Marval I sequenced. Don't know what that means or anything, but its a helpdesk-system...
Packbase 3.2
Ecolab (a cd-presentation, only works on XP - but sequenced it works on 2003 aswell
Essbase 6.5.7 and Essbase 9.3 Excel Plugin (9.3 has a multi-user environment issue - use scripting in SG to resolve this)
ViewCefip (really don't know what this is...) 2.0
Intrastat 2008 - not tested and I actually sequenced the server aswell... so i suppose to make any use of it I have to sequence "just" the client?
VMWare Virtual Infrastructure Client
Irfanview
7-zip
Visio Viewer 2007
All sequenced on Win XP SP2 and runs on Vista.
Currently awaiting media for some Oracle Forms stuff - that will be interesting.
So what do I mean by "successfull"? Will I haven't tested every single possibility on howto run or access the application, but only what I find useful in them. Some I just start, others I use myself in my daily work.
SG for me is really a great solution for Citrix. Its not so great, becoming better - but still lacking some potential, for the desktop.
Two things I would REALLY like to see;
Possibility to sequence SQL Express.
- This is used by so many applications as an offline replica of an existing database. The deployment of this is usually very ugly, hard, complex and takes loads of time.
Right-click menus
-That would add a really great benefit for the desktop. Drivers are currently impossible to virtualize - fine. But why can't my right click menus be handled just like the FTAs? Its sometimes THE way to access a application.
Has anyone had any success sequencing an Oracle ADI application? I started the monitor, ran the ADI install with 3 patches, added the env vars for Oracle_home and TNS_ADMIN, stopped the monitor so reboot function could occur, restarted the monitor and configured the db, stopped monitor and launched all applications. When the diagnostic wizard ran, it showed errors with the oracle_home not being defined. When I ran the ADI application, it ran fine and I had no problem logging on. At this point I finished the sequencer and moved the sequenced app to the content folder.
But when I launched the ADI application on a client, I got the message that the oracle_home variable is not set. (Note: the env vars for Oracle_home and TNS_ADMIN do show up in the osd file.
My next move was to editor the ADI osd file. I added following scripts:
<SCRIPT EVENT="LAUNCH" TIMING="PRE" PROTECT="TRUE" WAIT="TRUE" TIMEOUT="">
<SCRIPTBODY>cmd /c REG ADD HKCU\ENVIRONMENT /V TNS_ADMIN /T REG_EXPAND_SZ /D"q:/orant/network/admin" /F</SCRIPTBODY></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT EVENT="LAUNCH" TIMING="PRE" PROTECT="TRUE" WAIT="TRUE" TIMEOUT="">
<SCRIPTBODY>cmd /c REG ADD HKCU\ENVIRONMENT /V ORACLE_HOME /T REG_EXPAND_SZ /D"q:\orant" /F</SCRIPTBODY></SCRIPT>
Still no luck though. They ran when I lauched the ADI on a client, and the app opens, but when I click on the logon box
I get the message:
An Unexpected Error Has Occurred in ADI:
Routine: MAINGLDI: DoSignOn
Source: oraGLDI32
Message: Object variable or With block variable not set
Error Number: 91I'm hoping someone can point out an error or give me some ideas on what to try next.
MMB
- Hi MEMMB, were you ever able to get ADI to sequence successfully?
- Ruben,
The link to PDF is broken, can you fix it please.
Thanks - to add to list, mostly Legal industry related apps:
Adobe Acrobat 8
EFS (Electronic Filing System)
Google Chrome
FireFox 3
AIM, GAIM, MSCommunicator, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger
IE 5, 6 & 8 (even though they say it can't be done - 1st launch is super slow but after that it's all good)
Interwoven's FileSite 8.x (integrated mostly with Office 2007)
ImgBurn
KeePass
Notepad++ (dont' name it using '+' though)
MA3000 (docketing software)
NumberCruncher
Patent Hunter
Picasa (for fun)
TaxAnalyst
TrackIt (helpdesk ticket tracking software)
West LiveNote 1.5 (latest version as of Oct '09)
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