Virtualization
EddieNYC
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November 19th, 2009
Hello everyone. We've built an Office 2003 SWV layer in Win7, and for the most part, everything works wonderfully. However, if you open the thesaurus (the full blown side panel one, not the right click) it will take awhile ~5 minutes for the panel to appear. Any ideas what could cause this? Has anyone seen anything similarly?
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tklittle
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November 18th, 2009
Windows 7 Pro, Dell Optiplex755. When creating a new layer, makes no difference what software application, I get an Error 2503 then 2502. The application installs normally when installing on the C: drive, no errors. The application is installing from a cd with an .exe. Antivirus is turned off. I also tried to install it on a "clean" VM machine with the same error results. Any ideas?? TKL
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riva11
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November 17th, 2009
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Link : Fix WU Utility v 1.0
Altiris Deployment Solution, Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Windows, Tip/How to, Upgrade, Virtualization
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jz81
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November 16th, 2009
We are in the process of upgrading our virtual/streaming infrastructure. One of the main reasons to upgrade was the possibility to patch streamed virtual applications. Because there was no use for the "package folder" this folder (working dir of streaming composer) was not saved, and only the end-product (zip file) was saved. Is there any way to patch our old streamed applications without this working directory?
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Ben Enos
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November 13th, 2009
I have recently upgraded to SWV 6 SP1. When I try to install Endpoint Protection version 11.4 at the end of the installation it rollsback and uninstalls. If I disable my layers it will install. Is there something in my layers that is causing this? I use Wise package Studio 7 Sp3 to create my layers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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rpfenninger
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November 10th, 2009
Hi everyone, we already have more than 100 virtual apps in our environment. We successfully use this technique since more than one and a half years. However, since the change of the clients (new hardware and sp2 to sp3 from WinXP) we do have some problems with our virtual apps. One of those is that a large amount of files keep escaping the layer. Even on layers with no exclude. The problem is that changing layers (i.e. a newer app version) do not take effekt because almost all of the older files are still in the base. So our Helpdesk needs to deactivate the new layer, clean the file system, reset and activate the new layer and then things are fine. But what's the reason behind this behaviour? We're still on SVS 2.1.3071 because we've had issues with SWV 6.x during internal test phase on German XP.
Could it be a problem because SVS gets installed and then the machine is imaged? So everyone gets the 'same svs installation'?
Thanks for any hints in advance.
Roland
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Polarman
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November 9th, 2009
I want to copy 2 dirs to the installation directory on the C:\program files\INSTALLDIR after the installation has finished.
How do I set this in the MSI file?? The files/dirs should be copied from the sourcepath (UNC \\) to the source destination on the client computer.
Knut
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riva11
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November 6th, 2009
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icc
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November 3rd, 2009
Hi,
I have virtulized a software package that our company is currently using and virtulized a new software update of the program. I was wondering if it was possible to run the two programs concurrently, as when I tried to do so the older version detected the new program and said it needed to be updated, also they use the same folders.
Is it possible to have the two virtulized apps in seperate layers whereby they can both run at the same time with no conflict, and if so, could someone explain how? I am currently using SVS 2.1 and am unable to update to SWV 6.1, so can this be done using SVS?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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finalana
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November 2nd, 2009
Hi,
I've observed some weird behaviour when installing SWV and Wise Installation Studio on the same machine.
What I want to do is create a setup.exe that contains the Workspace Virtualization Agent in runtime mode. For this I need to use Virtual Package Editor, which is part of Wise Installation Studio. To test this, I wrote a console program that reads the DWORD registry value HKLM\SOFTWARE\virt_test1\mykey. I did the following tests on two Windows XP SP3 virtual machines, one English and one German.
Test 1
- install Wise Installation Studio
- create setup.exe
-> works
Test 2
- install Wise Installation Studio
- install SWV
- create setup.exe
-> does not work; the program can't read the registry value (RegOpenKeyEx() fails)
Test 3
- install SWV
- install Wise Installation Studio
- create setup.exe
-> does not work; the program can't read the registry value (RegOpenKeyEx() fails)
Is this a known problem? Can anyone reproduce the behaviour? I can upload the files...
Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Compatibility, Installing, Windows, Virtualization, Workspace Virtualization
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riva11
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November 1st, 2009
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Features :
Dual-panel technology – horizontal and vertical
Tabbed interface
Optional tree view for each panel
Built in file viewer to view files in hex, binary, text or image format
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Built in archive handling: ZIP (read, write), CAB (read, write), RAR (read)
Nested archive handling
Built in FTP client
Easy access to system folders, control panel, desktop and start menu
Copy, move, delete, rename files and folders
Multi rename tool
Wipe files
Create and verify MD5 checksums
File splitting
File properties and context menu...
Altiris Deployment Solution, Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Configuring, Windows, Tip/How to, Virtualization
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finalana
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October 30th, 2009
Hi,
I'm trying to install Windows Media Player 9 in an application layer on Windows 2000 SP4. SWV with admin is installed and works. Installing WMP9 into the base OS works as well. When installing into an application layer the install progress bar hangs at 55 %. I tried single capture, global capture and running the setup from a captured cmd.exe. Always the same result. Is this a known issue? I couldn't find anything in the forums. Searching the knowledge base at https://kb.altiris.com/, I just found mentioned that installing Windows components is not supported. Is this still the case? Is WMP considered a Windows component?
Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Compatibility, Windows, Virtualization, Workspace Virtualization
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williamh
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October 29th, 2009
I am running Ghost Solution Suite 2.5. I am running thru a WINS server. I am trying to make an image and I get this error "Client error linking to VPartition.dll". Can someone please help me. Here is the log file from the last attempt:
Task Name: Test image 1
User: ctms admin
Execution Time: 10/29/2009 1:00:12 PM
Number of client machines: 1
Clients finished OK: 0
Task warnings:1
Task process listing
TEST - Instructor 00-01-80-76-3D-B7 Download client upgrade 10/29/2009 1:00:22 PM Success
TEST - Instructor 00-01-80-76-3D-B7 Run client upgrade 10/29/2009 1:00:22 PM Success
TEST - Instructor 00-01-80-76-3D-B7 Download product upgrade 10/29/2009 1:00:42 PM Success
TEST - Instructor 00-01-80-76-3D-B7 Run product upgrade 10/29/2009 1:00:50 PM Success
TEST - Instructor 00-01-80-76-3D-B7 Run product upgrade 10/29/2009 1:02:10 PM WARNING
Details for: Run product upgrade
Client version update package did not run successfully
TEST - Instructor 00-01-80-76-3D-B7...
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jz81
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October 29th, 2009
I have a layer with file system priority of 70. In this layer I have a file: C:\test.txt (which contains the following text: "layer").
In the base, I have a file: C:\test.txt (which contains the following text: "base").
When I start winword.exe (from the base, this application hasn't been virtualized) and open C:\test.txt ... I get the file which contains "layer".
However I thought because winword was running from the base, the base's files would have a "BASE OWNER" priority (i.e. 65.5).
Why is winword opening the file in the layer?
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jz81
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October 29th, 2009
We are currently experiencing some problems with programs installed in the base modifying layers.
Process A: image is in the base
Process B: image is in layerB
process B
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|__> Process A
When launching process A from process B, all modifications done by process A are saved in the writable sublayer of layerB. I realize this is by design. Is there any way to avoid inheritance of the layer priority list by process A? (other than putting the image of process A in the programignore reg value because this implies that process A can't see layerB)
Thanks,
John
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asuits
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October 27th, 2009
Hi:
I have several questions and was hoping someone could help me out.
1. I see an SVS agent in both NS and DS. Which one am I suppoed to push out to my clients? Does it not matter? I have a training course book for NS and one for DS. Since DS has a chapter about SVS, I'm assuming this is the one to use?
2. Is there a step by step guide (not covered in my book) to virtualizing an application, then deploying the virtualized application to an Altiris client using DS?
3. All of our clients (that I manage) are public use computers. Any student can use any computer (we have about 7,000 students and over a thousand computers). We don't allow roaming profiles so when the student logs off of a machine, his profile is deleted. Am I going to run in to problems with SVS in my management scenario? I need all settings reset upon logon. I did see an Altiris paper on "Software Virtualization Solution 2.1 Logon Hook...
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finalana
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October 27th, 2009
Hello,
I'm trying to use the Workspace Virtualization Agent in combination with Wise Installation Studio and one of the target platforms is Windows 2000. I had some problems getting this to work. One of them is that SWV 6.1 SP1 does not install on my Windows 2000 SP4 virtual machine. I ran the installer Software_Virtualization_Agent.msi from the command line and had it write a log file. It seems like there is a custom action that fails because a DLL can not be loaded. Here's an excerpt from the log file:
MSI (s) (40:C8) [11:18:02:062]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=fslxRollbackInstallProductSecurity,,)
MSI (s) (40:C8) [11:18:02:062]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=fslxRollbackInstallProductSecurity,ActionType=3329,Source=BinaryData,Target=fslxRollbackInstallProductSecurity,CustomActionData=71)
MSI (s) (40:C8) [11:18:02:062]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=fslxDoInstallProductSecurity,,)
MSI (s) (40:C8) [11:18:02:062]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=...
Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Compatibility, Installing, Windows, Virtualization, Workspace Virtualization
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finalana
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October 26th, 2009
Hello,
My initial problem description seems to be confusing. Since I don't want to fry more brains than absolutely necessary I'll try to isolate all the problems I run into and describe them one by one.
I want to create a setup that installs my application and the workspace virtualization agent. According to the documentation, this is done using the Virtual Package Editor. So I launched it and created a setup that puts an executable on disk (C:\win32app\altiris_test1\altiris_test1_v2.exe) and inserts an entry into the windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\altiris_test1\mykey, value 42).
After adding a release and compiling it into altiris_test1_v2_Setup.exe, I run the installer. Afterwards, my executable on disk exists, but the registry key does not. How do I fix this?
Basics, Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Installing, Virtualization, Wise Installation Development
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finalana
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October 23rd, 2009
Hello,
I'm evaluating Symantec Workspace Virtualization (or Altiris SVS or whatever the name is)
in combination with Wise Installation Studio for creating packages that install one or
multiple applications on a machine that does not have Workspace Virtualization Agent
installed. According to the documentation of Symantec Workspace Virtualization (file
Symantec_Workspace_Virtualization_6_1_SP1_User's_Guide.pdf) and Wise Installation Studio
(file VirtualPackageEditor.pdf) this should be possible.
Unfortunately, I'm not having much luck in getting this to work.
The test environment:
1. Windows XP SP3 on a decent machine (2 GB Ram), let's call it "HOST"
2. Windows XP SP3 Virtual Machine in VMWare Server, let's call it "XPVM"
3. Windows 2000 SP4 Virtual Machine in VMWare Server, let's call it "2000VM"
What I did so far:
- Installed Symantec Workspace Virtualization Agent with Symantec Workspace Virtualization
Admin (Version 6.1 SP1) on XPVM
-...
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yamine
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October 20th, 2009
Hello,
I notice this strange behavior.
After creating my layer by the global capture method (on Windows XP), i try to suppress the folder [Windir]\Preftech from the read only files section.
This folder contains .pf files
The result is that SWV is on "time out" and the only way to take the control is to kill the task.
Even if i restart the machine this folder seems to be locked.
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Jordan
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October 16th, 2009
Back in August I wrote an article explaining how to virtualize Internet Explorer 7 & 8 with Symantec Workspace Virtualization (SWV) 6.1. In that article I mentioned that only by running IE6 from a layer could you successfully virtualize IE6. Now long time Connect users know that the only official installer for IE6 is one for pre XP SP2 which isn't a scenario that people want to have to deal with to be able to virtualize IE6 (and SWV isn't supported on that old of and XP build,) So many have been using 3rd party installers, which work for the most part, but some things are missing and some DLLs aren't registered properly.
(Note: The following information on virtualizing IE6 is provided "as-is" and isn't officially supported.)
When I was asked to look into virtualizing IE6 I took the approach that it had to be simple as I could make it and not require any 3rd party installers. It had to be capturable via something Microsoft provided to users. Through some trial and error I...
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Brad
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October 15th, 2009
Hey friends and fans of Symantec Workspace Virtualization, formerly known as SVS…
SYS-CON has opened their Virtualization Journal “Readers’ Choice Awards” 2009 and this year Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite has been nominated for Best Application Virtualization.
Last year Symantec was proud to win this award, as well as “Best App Virtualization Solution” for SYS-CON’s West Coast event. It’s very cool to see our community participate and get this recognition. For many years the SVS IT community has been bringing virtualization technology benefits into server-based-computing and alternative desktops, but primarily into the mainstay of IT - traditional rich client computing environments.
As part of our Juice and Connect community, you’ve come from Altiris desktop management backgrounds, AppStream, with traditional and SaaS delivery models, nSuite in healthcare and SMB site support, and have used our products as the...
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TheSmiz
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October 13th, 2009
I think it would be very beneficial to have other items that can define what machine an app is provisioned to, rather than simply the user id. In an environment when people do switch machines from say a headquarters site to a DR site and you only want the streaming/virtualized app available at DR. You could set up 2 streaming environments, but then you also have to manage 2 environments. If you set up a nice load balanced system that covers many of your sites, you can manage everything think in a single place.
Since we already use LDAP and get user information, would it be possible to get computer information as well. So, if I only want to allow application X to be available for user Y on computer Z, that is the only computer the icons show up on. Currently, if I provision a user for a licensed app and they begin using it on their normal production machine, then they travel 15 miles down the road to a DR site, the app icons show on this machine...
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TrevorL
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October 13th, 2009
I have a requirement to produce a gold disk of an ESXi server and am trying to find out if Ghost will do the job.
The physical server is a Fujitsu RX200 S5 with 1TB of disk space
The OS is ESXi v4 and it is hosting 3 virtual servers (all win 2003)
What I need to be able to do is take an image/snapshot of the host server containing the VM's, ideally on one or more DVD's so it can be restored to the imaged state by a non technical person!
Can anyone confirm that GSS 2.5 will enable me to do this
Thanks in advance
Trevor
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jmurphy
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October 12th, 2009
Hi peoples.
i am wanting to do what the manual says i should be able to do, that is attach my virtual center to the Altiris DS 6.9 sp3
so that all my VM's appear and can be managed etc....
however i put the details of the virtual center into the virtual center section in the DS, and i get the Virtual Machine menu appear in the computers section, however nothing is there, except my virtual center..
Any Ideas?
or has anyone been able to do this with DS 6.9 and vSphere 4?
Thanks in Advance
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