AppVol writable attachments breaks Adobe Reader

[wishihad]

Can anyone help me understand why attaching a writable drive to support OST files for my instant clones, causes Adobe Reader to fail to load. Adobe is on my Gold disc and works perfectly in the Gold Disc and in an instant clone, of I don’t install the AppVol agent. Any and all thoughts are welcome.

Thanks

[sjesse]

Moderator: please don't double post, I locked the other thread.

[sjesse]

Usually, its because you installed and/or uninstalled adobe in they take precedence over everything else.

[wishihad]

   I put the 1st post in the wrong forum

[wishihad]

We installed the AppVols agent last. Also, if we uninstall AppVols and republish or repush the snapshot Adobe works fine.  Thanks for the response

[sjesse]

You can go back and edit it for future reference,.

[wishihad]

Perhaps I’ll go go back and reconsider VMWare for my future customers.  I’ve never seen such a disjointed, buggy and poorly integrated product suite. 

[sjesse]

Just to be clear I do not work for vmware, I contribute here for free to help other people. I really suggest trying some of the other products like profile unitiy from liquidware labs and see if one works for you better than the other. All of them so far have been pretty shaky with writeable volumes or sometimes call user-installed applications. You have to remember what a lot of these do, they record what registry keys are and where the files are and overlay them over the current file system.

[wishihad]

Issue resolved.

it turned out to be an issue with the default writable template grabbing too much data, or most of the AppData file structure. The fix was to create our own stripped down writable template. I’ll post a link In a minute to the write up we used, to give credit where it’s do.

[wishihad]

https://ageroskam.nl/app-volumes-2-x/create-a-custom-writeable-volume-for-specifically-the-outlook-o...