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Hi All,  we have some Applications on AppVolumes 2.18 that require the use of custom scripts. Some require system context but other require user context.  In AppVolumes 2.X no Problem, however, the same scripts in AppVolumes 4 seem to be on the Agent Side now, and subject to updates. We used them on the AppStack in the past (ie.: Firewall Rule for a particular app, or license activation).  We found this link to the documentation Default and Custom Configuration Files which references custom scripts. This is new in AppVolumes 4 and they all run in system context. In order for them to run at all, which I didn't find on that page, you need to configure "RunAppEventScripts" under the "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\svservice\Parameters" registry key .  Now the scripts execute, but both in system context.  Documentation states:  To run a custom script in the user context, you can add an entry in the registry key, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run in the base virtual machine, Writable Volume, or application package.  The problem I have is that when I configure this run key, the "{Appstack Volume Guid}" and "{App Guid}" Change from the provisioning machine to end user terminal and the AppGUID I believe changes every time I update the volume. Therefore, I can never run anything in user context. There probably is a simple solution to this that I haven't found yet.  Would anybody know what the solution is?   

Hi All,  I have been banging my head against this problem, I'd appreciate any help.  The Horizon Remote Assistance only works for one of our Windows 10 1909 Pools, all the others do not work. I cannot figure out why.  What I understand is that the feature leverages the Windows build in assistance (msra.exe).  On the functioning Pool, I click the remote assistance button and a msirc file is being downloaded. I click it, and it works.  On the other pools, the file is never downloaded.  What I have tried:  Even though remote assistance was explicitly disabled in our environment, it worked on “the one” pool. I then reconfigured all other pools to verify all ports work the way they should to accept remote assistance using msirc and that worked (unsolicited). I gathered that the file may be created by the connection server / proxy gateway using the message bus port 4002. On the functioning VM, one I trigger it, I see some SBM traffic for desktop.ini files (which I don’t understand how that relates to the generation of the incident file). On the non-functioning VM, when I click the button, I can see packets going towards the VM, and I can see packages arriving at the VM, but then nothing happens. I have not done any enhanced logging on the VM yet -to be honest I don’t know which logs at which level I should look through to see that kind of traffic. Any pointers would be appreciated.  

Hey experts. I have just gone through an upgrade to vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 and therefore I am cleaning up datastores. While doing so, I found a few replica disks that in my opinion are not used anymore. So I googled and found this KB2009844. This found a few unused, but not all of them. I then moved on to KB1031842 and couldn't find any VMs running on these replica disks. They seem to reference themselves like so: /vmfs/volumes/57f75a4c-ba0cbaa1-6717-62698250000a/replica-33d98af9-4f75-4505-ac15-25f82e6d23c9/replica-33d98af9-4f75-4505-ac15-25f82e6d23c9-000001-digest.vmdk-->>parentFileNameHint="replica-33d98af9-4f75-4505-ac15-25f82e6d23c9-digest.vmdk" While I was browsing through those disks, I noticed they still had an annotation, which indicated that they are replica disks based on gold images that have been deleted a long time ago. I then found this KB1008704 to unprotect them to manually delete them, but I am wondering if I should really do this. I am assuming that if sviconfig -operation=findunusedreplica doesn't identify the replica disks as unused, there must be something in the database that references them. I was wondering if anyone has ever done this, and if anyone could provide some tips on how to track down those references in order to clean up the database and not run into new problems down the line.

Hi Community, It's very easy to export stuff that is stored in the local user profile or in the registry. But I have this strange application that stores it's configuration in C:\ProgramFiles\ApplicationName\config. I have been experiementing with log off and log on tasks but it fails probably because of user permissions: [FATAL] FkexUtils::ExecuteCommand: Error 193 calling <script-path> (AsUser). Is there any reccomended way of doing this? B/R

Hey Community, I guess most syadmins strive to eliminate flash and java off their workstations. We have some applications that require the use of JAVA and some are more picky than others. I wanted to create an AppStack for those applications and use a fully isolated JAVA thinapp and then install the software on top of that. I am guessing I need to create the correct entry points for the JAVA thinapp but I am not entirely sure what that would look like. For instance, I have a legacy application that uses JAVA_7_65. I move the JAVA thinapp to the C: Drive and then execute the MSI. The entry points that I selected during the capture process is java and javaw.exe. When I then start the installation process for the legacy application, it looks for a java executable. I navigate to my thinapp folder and select the java application. I see the thinapp window launch, however, the application doesn't install. So far, I have only tried this with this one application. I was hoping somebody has done something like this before and could give me a hint? Thanks for your help in advance!

Experts! I admit I am not a very advanced in app volumes mainly because I don't find a lot of resources on how to become an app volumes wizard. My setup Dual App Managers (Load Balanced) pointing towards Always-On SQL New Windows 7 Gold Image with Office 2010 & Lync 2010 & Adobe Reader included. Office Versions are 32 bit on 64 bit Windows 7. Issues solved (but not sure why) Project 2010 Appstack attached - Office Reconfigures or when opening Sharepoint wants to install something from MSOCache. But not on all users. Visio 2010 Appstack attached - same behaviour Visio Viewer (in Gold Image) Problems Please note: no license errors ---- Solution to those: Office repair installation and reinstalled the Appstacks, opening all office products and opening Sharepoint to ensure all components are installed. Remaining Issue: Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.0.17 AppStack attached and opening Word, it wants to reconfigure. Only when opening Word. Redid the process from above and so far no solution. So far, my solutions have been guess work as I don't 100% understand what is going on and why it is happening. I was wondering if anyone else has seen these problems and has a solution to this? However, I'd be even more interested on a more generic troubleshooting approach for issues arising when AppStacks are attached to a VM, because I foresee more of these issues coming up. h I'd be happy for any help you guys could provide and also grateful for any resources I could read to get a deeper understanding of how app volumes works and how the merge process works. For instance, I observed that when a user logs in with the Visio app stack installed, everything works fine. The user logs of, the VM is not refreshed, and the next user doesn't have a visio entitlement, therefore requires Visio viewer, in some cases Visio viewer will break. I would have expected though that all traces of the Visio appstack are removed once the vmdk is unmounted? I have now started to refresh on log off as a consequence. Thanks for your support in advance.