Blogs from TMurgent
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
One of the new features of the 1703 Sequencer mentioned in TechNet “What’s New” page involves templates.
No, Microsoft didn’t do what we asked to make it easy to always load the sequencer with a Template using a registry setting like we did in 4.x. But they did solve an issue that traps everyone when updating packages. The issue is …
Microsoft this week announced some changes in App-V 5 associated with the release of Windows 1703 “Creators Update”. While there is a minor client change to support cleaning up unpublished packages documented here, the real news comes when we see the updated Sequencer, which is the subject of this post.
As of the previous release, the Windows 10 based …
Sebasitan, the German Microsoft Escalation Engineer we often get new news from about App-V, recently blogged about the dates for the lifecycles for App-V 5.1. Before people get upset, let’s make sure you understand what this means.
On the date when a product version, or service pack, is released, it sets the clock ticking for end of free mainstream support …
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Earlier this week I was queried (by Andrew) about an issue with the JreBlock script we use for sequencing Java. There was an issue with using in on 64-bit machines. Patrick wrote the original version for us more than 4 years ago, and we were using a different version in our training classes than was on the website |
Shhh! Don’t tell anyone this about App-V. Just because you didn’t hear any sound does not mean that there wasn’t a lot a noise involved. In the last year, Microsoft has made two incredibly big moves with its App-V product, and you probably didn’t hear much about it. What happened? First, Microsoft has effectively stopped charging you for App-V. Second, …
This summer we held the final (we think) BriForum here in Boston. These 20 conferences have been both fun and very educational and I’m sorry to see them end. So at the conference I pulled together a panel of some of the top minds in the desktop and virtualization space and had an excellent informative and fun session called “The …
I’ll keep this simple. If you are an IT Pro dealing with Windows and it’s updates, you need to change your attitude toward updates.
It is time to stop worrying about the details. You no longer need to analyze every patch that comes out of Microsoft, test, and deploy. It is time to just let Microsoft deal with it. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/further-simplifying-servicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/…
NOTE: This post is part of a series. You might want to start at the beginning:
To distribute App-V packages, you have …