Kanton Basel-Stadt Howto crash a sequencer …and a path to get a difficult package to work APP-V Swissgroup / Daniel Müller

Introduction Sequencer crash Possible causes Workaround Useful ressources Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel Agenda

Introduction Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Introduction Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Introduction Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Application:SYMplus Fräsen 6 Category:CNC Simulationssoftware Company:Kellersoftware ( ) Sequencer Crash Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Sequencer Crash Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Just a coincidence? Tried to sequence the application with a different machine Tried to sequence the application with different versions (APP-V 5.0 and 5.1) Tried to sequence the application with PVAD enabled Sequencer Crash Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Collecting Informations %temp% Enabling Analytic and Debug Logs Ask the community! Sequencer Crash Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Invalid ProgIDs (file type association) Shortcuts (Ink files with a space at the end) Possible causes Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Application:PaintDotNet Invalid ProgIDs (filetype association) Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel Appears to be specific to this or only some apps. Other apps I tried this with had no issue.

Shortcuts (Ink files with a space at the end) Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Invalid manifest detected Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel The AppxManifest.xml schema does not allow backslashes in ProgId names, so this was causing the error, found by exactly the same troubleshooting steps listed for ImgBurn. The fix in this case was to move these ProgIds into their own keys PCOMW.BCH and PCOMW.WS and update the file extension keys to suit, essentially replacing the backslash with a dot.

Package contains RELS files Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Package contains RELS files Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

/ Fonts limitations Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Long path limitation Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel 193c608e8a91/appv-51hf1-crashes-with-long-virtualized-file-paths

Are those sequencer limitations somewhere listed? Question to the audience Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Community work Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Community work Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Let’s sequence it again Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Sequencing the APP with App-V 4.6 and convert package to APP-V 5.0 Finding another way to inject this files ;-)  Let’s try it with Gridmetric APP-V Explorer (you have to buy a license) What else can we do? Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Workaround

Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel Workaround

(big link collection about application virtualization) (Blog of Thamim Karim) (Blog of Tim Mangan) (Blog of Sebastian Gernert) …lot of more (AVE Explorer) Useful ressources Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Useful Ressources Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel

Thanks for your attention! Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel