Blogs from TMurgent
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
If you are using App-V and moving to Windows 10 1703 or 1709 , you need to be aware of an issue, temporary workaround, and “permanent fix” that we are waiting for.
The short of it is that last summer Microsoft decided to change the implementation of the App-V virtual registry to use containers. We don’t know a lot about …
A PowerShell Automation Framework for Application Packaging with Passive/Silent Installations.
Today I am releasing another free tool for the community, called PassiveInstall, plus a free online training course for it (see bottom of this article for a link to the training). A PowerShell module intended for use by anyone wanting to create customized automated installations of vendor applications …
While I will admit that I thought about this possibility, I never would have written about it unless I found a customer actually doing this.
I met them in a recent training class, and here is their story.
For most companies, delivering applications as App-V virtual apps is one of many ways that they deliver applications. They might also use …
My general recipe for sequencing AutoCAD 2015 is found in this post from a couple of years ago: https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=2268
Today, Patrick Mangan reminded me that he had to modify that recipe to handle AutoCAD 2016 and 2017.
In the original recipe, we handle the problem of the runtime AutoCAD writing a dll file outside of the virtual environment to a …
One of the things I talked about when App-V was going into the core of the OS was how it was going to provide new opportunities to improve App-V. And the prime example I gave was how the virtual registry worked. Well I was eventually proved right, although the transition is proving to be a bit bumpy for some folks …
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It’s summer. Who should work all that hard anyway? I’m letting the AutoSequencer do the work for me.
With the March 2017 release of Microsoft Windows also came the 1703 version of the Windows ADK. The ADK contains a number of tools used by both developers and IT Pros and is generally updated with each OS release. When you go |
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The Application Book
This is a book for packagers of all types. I find that even the most seasoned of packagers are fuzzy (at best) on what all that stuff that installers do is really for. So in our Master’s Level App-V Training classes I have been diving more and more into how application installers work and what they are |
Introducing a new experiment in learning from TMurgent.
There really is no substitute for a full instructor led course from us to prepare yourself for successful packaging of applications using Microsoft App-V. And if you haven’t taken one of our classes I’d recommend asking any of the hundreds of people who have taken one just how valuable the class …