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Certificate Store Permissions and Windows Live Block App-V RTSPS Protocol

Last week, when converting our existing ICT internal dogfood trial of App-V to a highly available production capable App-V solution, we came to a decision to utilize the RTSPS (Real Time Streaming Protocol Secure) protocol for streaming our applications.

Using some my own and another colleagues laptops for testing the RTSPS protocol, we ran into an issue whereby the client received the following error:

The specified Application Virtualization Server has shut down the connection. Try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, report the following error code to your System Administrator.

Error Code: xxxxxx-xxxxxx0A-10000009

We initially discovered from an App-V blog article (http://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2010/03/09/troubleshooting-common-rtsps-issues-with-app-v.aspx) that this issue occurs when the server lacks permissions for the NETWORK SERVICE account to access the certificate store machine keys.

Following the advise of the article for Windows Server 2008 R2 systems, this was quickly resolved by using a Certificate Management based Microsoft Management Console to grant Read permission for the NETWORK SERVICE account to the certificate which is being used to sign the RTSPS protocol in App-V.

Thinking the issue was resolved, we proceeded to initiate a Refresh on the App-V client and tried to stream an application that we had previously sequenced, however we now received a new error:

The Application Virtualization Client could not update publishing information from the server App-V Server. The server will not allow a connection without valid NTLM credentials. Report the following error code to your System Administrator.

Error code: 4615186-1690900A-00002002

Leaving us puzzled. We were unable to find a solution initially, so we turned to Bing for some assistance, unearthing an interesting but niche blog post.

According to the source of our findings (http://blogs.ethz.ch/jlaville/2011/08/25/app-v-error-00002002/) machines with components from the Windows Live Essentials suite of applications cannot run the RTSPS protocol due to a registry key added to the LSA Security Packages key.

AppV Regedit LSA No LIVESSP

After removing the livessp value from the multi-value string in the registry and restarting the system we were successfully able to refresh the server and also stream the applications.