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References

Running a Locally Installed Application Inside a Virtual Environment with Virtualized Applications – Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack | Microsoft Learn

Background

This XML snippet was spurred from a requirement to enable the use of ActiveX components for an App-V packaged application. ActiveX is a component of Internet Explorer, and is known as a legacy method to publish various forms of multimedia content onto web pages. This particular piece of software has been around for a number of years, and uses HTML to deliver some aspects of the UI within a Win32 application. However, when running as part of an app-v package, the ActiveX components would not work.

Solution

Configure iexplore.exe to run inside the virtual environment when it’s called.

• Open the App-V package User Deployment Config file.
• Under the “User Scripts” block configure parameters to run the following PowerShell command (See full example under the XML heading of this page):

-ExecutionPolicy ByPass -WindowStyle Hidden -Command New-Item -Path “HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\Client” -Name RunVirtual -force | New-Item -Path “HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\Client\RunVirtual” -Name “iexplore.exe” -force; Set-Item -Path “HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\Client\RunVirtual\iexplore.exe” -Value “ChangeWithAppVPackageID” -force

• Import the modified User Deployment Config into your App-V package deployment model.

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