Server Application Virtualization Release Notes

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager, System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager

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This section provides the most up-to-date information about issues with Server App-V. These issues do not appear in the product documentation and in some cases might contradict existing product documentation. When it is possible, these issues will be addressed in later releases.

When sequencing Team Foundation Server 2010, you receive the following error: - db backup error - file not found

When you sequence Team Foundation Server 2010 and you specify Microsoft SharePoint integration by providing a location of the Windows SharePoint Services installer, a db backup error occurs when you stop monitoring. This occurs because Team Foundation Server 2010 creates the Windows SharePoint Services databases on the remote SQL server. This is an unsupported scenario.

WORKAROUND During the monitoring phase of sequencing, follow these steps:

1. Install the Windows SharePoint Services and configure for your environment.

2. Install Team Foundation Server 2010 and configure it to reference the Windows SharePoint Services installation during the Team Foundation Server 2010 configuration phase.

When you remove a package that contains COM+ components the associated native registration overrides are also removed

After you remove a virtual application package that contains COM+ components, any overrides that were applied by using the native registration after you deployed the virtual application are also removed.

WORKAROUND After you remove the virtual application package, you must reapply the overrides that were applied by using the native registration.

Changing credentials of an interactive service renders the credentials noninteractive

Interactive windows services (services that can interact with the desktop) can only run as Local System. If your package has an interactive Windows Service, and if you change its credentials from Local System to another user during deployment, the service can no longer interact with the desktop. Therefore, the package might lose some of its functionality.

WORKAROUND To preserve this functionality, you should not change the credentials of interactive services.

Deleting a deployment configuration item causes the sequencer to quit unexpectedly

Server App-V automatically captures configuration items associated with a virtual application package that can be used during deployment to configure an instance of the deployed application package. After sequencing an application, these configuration items are displayed in the deployment configuration section of the sequencer console. If any of the configuration items are deleted using the sequencer console, the sequencer can crash, causing a loss of the virtual application package that was created.

WORKAROUND To delete a configuration item, you should first save your package and then manually edit the deploymentconfig.xml document. To remove an item from the file, you should delete the applicable .xml node for the required deployment configuration item.

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