Clickonce Applications keep wanting to be reinstalled in windows server 2012

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I am getting a really strange issue. I have ClickOnce application which i deploy manually to clients running many different versions of windows. The issue I am facing is that on the machines running Windows Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2 the ClickOnce app often asks to be installed. What I mean is, I will install an app onto a machine running one of those versions of Windows and after a while (sometimes a few days, sometimes a few months) if I try to run the app on that machine, it comes up with the installation prompt screen. I have tried looking up this error, but I can find nothing of use. I am not sure if anyone else has experienced something similar?

Any assistance into this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Posted 3-Oct-14 2:30am

Roland gr

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Wendelius · Answer 1 · 2014-10-03T04:05:00

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I've had similar problems. Another variation is that the new version won't install at all.

So far the only fix I've been able to do is to remove the app completely from the computer and then do a fresh install. Sometimes I've had to manually clean the APPDATA folder.

Posted 3-Oct-14 4:05am

Wendelius

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Roland gr 3-Oct-14 10:09am

Thanks for your quick reply. I will try this fix when I see the issue crop up again.

Wendelius 3-Oct-14 10:11am

You're welcome. Hopefully it helps :)

Roland gr 20-Oct-14 9:35am

Shortly after your reply I ran into the issue again on a couple of clients and used your suggestion to attempt to fix them, but the same thing seems to have cropped up again on one of the machines (running Server 2012) :/ Thanks for the suggestion though as it seems to have helped on some PCs, just not all.