Strange App-V Remote Admin Share Behaviors

An introduction…

Fern the dog, click to enlargeDealing with the family over holidays can be stressful, and being an obvious geek sometimes helps. Sometimes it is just easier to disappear into the computer rather than ask questions, and because they are family they know me well enough to give me some slack. Because sometimes I see something and I just don’t want to know why. …

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Custom App-V Sequencing

LifesaverI have been asked something like a gazillion times over the years if TMurgent offered contract App-V Sequencing. Almost every time I say no. Sure, we do a little bit of it each year, but mostly to make sure that the training we give “is real” to what customers need.

Today, this changes.

The reason that I would say no …

Playing with App-V Reporting

An old friend, Michael Bilodeau, posted a blog last week about setting up an HTTP reporting portal for App-V. (See Technet blog https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2011/11/10/how-to-create-a-sample-app-v-http-reporting-service.aspx). Michael might not be a familiar name to many of you, but he is to me. Michael was my development manager for the server side of the original SoftGrid server (now known as the traditional App-V …

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How do you know if App-V Apps need security updates?

Secunia CSI I was recently looking into alternatives to Windows Intune for ways to check if non-Microsoft application updates are needed, and stumbled into a company called Secunia. More importantly to their being an alternative to Intune, they developed a neat way to look at your App-V packages and tell you if those need updates too.

 

Secuna, based in Denmark,

Citrix Synergy Barcelona “Super Session” aka Keynote

Citrix “Super Session”, Synergy Barcelona Oct 27, 2011

Otherwise called a Keynote, this morning’s session focused on three topics: Collaboration, Cloud, and Mobility. While Wednesday’s session was about announcements, this morning was about explaining the message. Mark T left the work to his minions (not sure if he was sleeping in or off somewhere). Can’t believe I am saying this, …

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Citrix Synergy Barcelona: Day 1 Keynote

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

This week I am at the Citrix Summit and Synergy shows in Barcelona Spain. I am also attending the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) meetings where Citrix gives us a private briefing on what they are working on, although much of that is more distant work that remains under NDA so I can’t blog about that.

Summit, …

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Citrix Stuns Computing World in Barcelona

For Release not before October 24, 08:00GMT

Citrix Systems, of Ft. Lauderdale Florida, today stunned the computing world with an explosive announcement at their Europen partner conference in Barcelona Spain today.

Mr. TCitrix President and CEO Mark B. Templeton is well known for ending his keynotes with “One More Thing”, and this was a doozy. “Today, for the first time, I …

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I Was a Cloud Service Provider, and Didn’t Know It!

I realized this summer that I was a player in The Cloud really early on. Yeah, me. The one who spent the last two years calling it “Clown Computing” rather than “Cloud Computing”. Yes, I will now fully admit that I was once a cloud junkie.
I will explain this in this post.
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Tim in SoftwareWow shirt It goes back to the