Troubleshooting Application Management Issues

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If you are facing a difficult software distribution issue, and you've verified that the software windows 7 certification deployment options are correct, you may want to enable Application Management debugging. To do this, you must go to the system experiencing the problem and log on as an administrator. You then enable Application Management debugging by editing the registry as described in the following steps:
1.Click Start, dick Run, type Regedit and then press Enter, In the Registry Editor,expand the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\
Windows NTXCurrentVersion.
2.Right-click the CurrentVersion key, point to New, and then click Key. Type Diagnostics as the new key name, and then press Enter.
3.Right-click the Diagnostics key, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.Type AppMgmtDebugLevel as the name of the new value, and then press
Enter. Double-click the AppMgmtDebugLevel value,
4.In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, type 4b in the Value Data box, and then click OK. Close the Registry Editor.
Once you restart the computer ...
... (for applications assigned to the computer) or have logged on the user (for applications assigned or published to the user), you should be able to find the AppMgmtlog file in the mcts certification folder. Read the entries in this file to gain insight into the problems that are occurring with the application installation. If you don't see this log file, it could be that the application deployment policy is not even reaching the local client system. This could be the case if the policy is disabled or possibly being fil?tered through inheritance blocking or security filtering.
After you complete your debugging, be sure to remove the AppMgmtDebugLevel key so that you don't waste system resources logging information that you don't require.
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