AppV_DeployNPublish 2.0.1 for App-V 4.6 SP1

When Microsoft release App-V 4.6 Sp1, which was all about the new sequencer, they also quietly put out an updated client. You don’t need the updated client to use SP1 sequenced packages, but it is an option. Supposedly the client was mostly about rolling up hotfixes, but we know that there must be changes to support the upcoming SCCM 2012 …

App-V 4.6 SP1: Saga of the duplicate GUID (continued)

We held our first training class on Microsoft App-V 4.6 SP1 last week in Malmo, Sweden. During the class, we ran into an “old friend” that entered the room using a new disguise. Although we thought he died, our friend the duplicate GUID still lives on. To explain…

When application packages are sequenced with App-V, a package GUID (Globally Unique …

SCCM 2012 Beta 2 with App-V First Look

Microsoft made Beta 2 of SCCM 2012 available last week. Because I do a lot with App-V, I needed to get this up and running in my lab. This is a “first look” report. SCCM 2012, which is anticipated to be released in the 4th quarter of 2011, is a major overhaul of the product.

I’m not much of an …

AppV_DeployNPublish 2.0 Released

Version 2 of the AppV_DeployNPublish tools has been released. These free tools were designed to allow for deployment of App-V virtualized applications without a back-end infrastructure. In addition, these have become the standard way to quickly test newly sequenced applications.

Version 2 incorporates feedback received in the first release, especially around the command line interface options. More importantly, it includes …

Das Microsoft App-V Client Buch (There will be an App-V Client Book, in German)

We are underway on a translation of the App-V Client book into German. With luck, “Das Microsoft App-V Client Buch” will be published by summertime.

Nico Lüdemann, a fellow MVP and CTP, is busy working on the translation. As App-V 4.6 SP1 did not change the client in any significant way (as far as we know!) we didn’t need to …

App-V 4.6 SP1 “Masters” class is ready!

As an MVP for App-V, Microsoft sometimes makes early versions privately available to us to get us to provide them some valuable feedback before it is too late in the development cycle to make changes. So I have been looking at the 4.6 SP1 changes for quite a while now — almost a year.

This enabled us an early start …

App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer Flow Diagram

Now that the new 4.6 SP1 sequencer is out, I am releasing yet another ebook. This is just a several page PDF that is a flow chart of the wizard logic of the sequencer.

There are a lot of possible paths through the new sequencer, and if you have been left wondering why you didn’t get a chance to edit …

The New App-V Package Accelerator

Delivering Customization without the bits

Abstract

“Microsoft App-V 4.6SP1 offers a new opportunity for ISVs and Enterprise IT Administrators to create and use pre-customized application software as virtualized applications. This is a two sided benefit to the industry. ISVs can pre-virtualize their applications, transforming the end customers job of sequencing even the most complex applications into a task that can …