AppV 5.0 User Refresh Not Working

[J_Worth]

We have recently deployed AppV 5.0 to an IT room and have published some applications on a user basis (by targetting an AD group). However, when these students logon to the machine, a user refresh does not occur and instead the students have to open the AppV Client GUI and then click the "Update" button to manually force this refresh. Once this is done, the application appears in the user's start menu and all is well.

 

I have enabled the User Refresh at Logon Group Policy setting and when running RSOP.msc on a client, these GPO settings are being successfully applied.

 

Has anyone else experienced an issue like this and if so, how did you go about resolving it.

 

Many thanks.

 

J.Worth

[J_Worth]

Figured out a solution!

 

Created a PowerShell script and set it to run when the user logons by placing it in the Startup folder. Fixes the issue beautifully! It only took two lines!

 

import-module appvclient

 

Sync-AppVPublishingServer 1

[jamesfed]

By chance are these laptop computers in the IT room?

[J_Worth]

By chance are these laptop computers in the IT room?

 

No they're wired desktops

[JohnMorgan]

I know this is an old post, but wanted to share what I encountered. I was having the same end result. Discovered with the help of this post that the GPO sets the sync interval by creating tasks in Task Scheduler, which are VB Scripts for some reason, which simply call the Powershell command "sync-appvclient" - with the added option of -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned. The command failed because we had our ExecutionPolicy set to AllSigned by GPO.