Showing posts with label Management server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Management server. Show all posts

Friday, October 23, 2015

Management console generates “Could not load file or assembly Newtonsoft.Json” error - App-V 5.1 Support Tip

After upgrading the App-V 5.0 Service Pack 1 Database and Management Server, the following error is generated when loading the App-V management console:


Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)


To know more about resolving this issue click on the below official Microsoft TechNet link:


http://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2015/10/22/app-v-5-1-support-tip-management-console-generates-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-newtonsoft-json-error.aspx

Thursday, October 22, 2015

App-V Support Tip: Publishing Server URL is unreachable after upgrade to 5.1

After upgrading App-V 5.0 Management and Publishing servers to App-V 5.1, you may encounter a problem where publishing no longer function properly and the following issues appear:

- Accessing the Publishing URL in Internet Explorer from directly on the Publishing Server (e.g.http://localhost:82, where 82 is the port assigned to the Publishing Server Service) generates the following error message:

The website cannot display the page

- The event below is seen in Event Viewer\Applications and Servers logs\App-V\Server-Publishing-Private\Debug:
Failed to pre-load publishing metadata. 

Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 
Details:  
Stack Trace: 
   at Microsoft.AppV.Server.Publishing.PublishingMetadataSerializer.PackageSerializer.Load(XElement pkgElement, PublishingMetadata& data) 
   at Microsoft.AppV.Server.Publishing.PublishingMetadataSerializer.RootSerializer.Load(XmlReader reader) 
   at Microsoft.AppV.Server.Publishing.PublishingMetadataSerializer.LoadFromFile(String filePath) 
   at Microsoft.AppV.Server.Publishing.DataManager.ProcessRawMetadata() 
   at Microsoft.AppV.Server.Publishing.DataManager.PreLoadPublishingMetadata() 
   at Microsoft.AppV.Server.Publishing.DataManager..ctor()

To know about the cause and the resolution check the below Microsoft Technet link.