I’ve been doing a few App-V demos recently. This has entailed building lots of App-V Management Servers back to back in a lab. It’s for that reason the whole App Virt Management Server Service not automatically starting even though it is set to automatically start has been brassing me off no end, it’s all about SQL being on the same server and the App-V Service starting before SQL, not usually an issue in a production environment with dedicated SQL Clusters but it was causing havoc in my lab. Something had to be done.
Ordinarily you’d set a DependOnService entry for the service in the registry but I thought I’d try the “Automatic (Delayed Start)” option on the service, a new feature with Windows 2008. Well, I’m happy to report it worked a treat.
Now the App-V server service starts everytime without fail, everyone’s a winner.
