It’s summer. My new book is almost published, and I’m cutting back on my golf (well, a little) due to a bad ankle. So what do I do? Dig into the App-V 5.0 Beta, of course! With lots of shiney new thigs to look at, plus a few dark corners with cobwebs to poke into, it is almost as good …
Author: Tim Mangan
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
Key to Migrating to Windows 7 and Beyond: Virtualize the Apps
I have been doing Application Virtualization for a long time – a dozen years now. For a long time AppVirt was more of a niche than it is today. Originally it was used with Citrix and Terminal Servers, but even when desktop and laptop support was added it was used by a relatively small number of leading edge companies. That …
App-V Client Error 29-00000057 Changing Cache Size Policy
If you have a client (4.6 SP1 x86 Windows Desktop for sure, perhaps other installs and other installers) that is currently configured for a cache size policy of a maximum size and attempt to use the Client Management Console to modify the setting to instead use the Minimum Free Space option, when you hit apply you will get an error:…
The Client Book, now in paperback, also now in German
We released “The Client Book, About Microsoft App-V” some time back, and it has been a tremendous success. To date it has sold over two and a half what we ever expected to sell. Today, we released the paperback version of the book, which makes it available at a bit more afforadable price.
We are also pleased to finally release …
New and Updated (Free) Tools
In conjunction with my upcoming book and sessions at Briforum, I am releasing a number of new and updated tools involving Windows Performance analysis. These tools may be found in the Performance Tools section of the TMurgent website. These tools are generally free to download and use (the only restrictions are for ISVs that want to use them to …
App-V 5.0 (Beta1) Shortcut Editing Tricks
I have been having a problem with some of my sequences with the new App-V 5.0 Beta1 release; sometimes the client doesn’t get changes I make to the shortcut/FTA settings in the sequence editor.
I mentioned this to Patrick before I headed off to speak at the Citrix Synergy “Geek Speak Live” in San Francisco last week. He was supposed …
AppV 5.0: The 10GB Package
…App-V 5.0 Beta: What happened to the OSDs?
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
A long staple of App-V has been the OSD file. This XML based file, along with the sfttray.exe command that runs it, has been the behind-the-scenes mechanism for how users start virtual applications. but you won’t find them in App-V …