Updates on Microsoft App-V

There is some news regarding App-V to share.
1. App-V 4.5 SP2 Upgrade Released

2. Microsoft Releasing “Pkg” format specification

3. TMurgent releases free tool to read “Pkg” files

4. TMurgent releases White Paper and Video on App-V 4.6 DSC and Transparency

These are more fully described in my other blog at BrianMadden.com

New Free Tool: PkgView for App-V

Have you ever wanted to see what was captured in the App-V user or global PKG file? 

For the last 4 years, on and off, I have been trying to build a tool to do just that.  And for just as long I have been really close to having such a tool, but not close enough to release one.  I

New Tool: XenApp Publishing Extensions 2.0 for App-V

The XenApp Publishing Extensions 2.0 are two tools that enable easy publication of applications to your XenApp 4.5 or 5.0 farm.

Once you have deployed App-V virtual applications to your XenApp 4.5 and 5.0 Farms, you will want to publish the shortcuts to users. This can be a slow and tedious process  for App-V virtual applications when using the XenApp …

Citrix Technology Professional Award

I am pleased to announce that I have just been named a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP).  The CTP is Citrix’s version of the Microsoft MVP.  I rewards professionals that contribute to the community and establishes a two-way dialog with the company, both to improve our understanding of Citrix and as a conduit so that Citrix can access the industry …

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Briforum 2009 Videos Released

BrianMadden.com has released the videos from the 2009 conference for free viewing.  This includes three sessions that I ran:

This is a session we modified at the last minute when we got permission from Microsoft the night before to show 64-bit app sequencing using an unreleased build of what would become the 4.6 release.  It was quite a coop and …

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App-V Training Updates

TMurgent is coming back to Sweden! Details are being finalized, but TMurgent and Virisit IT are teaming up again for a class in Malmo (across the bridge from Copenhagen, Denmark) the week of May 31-June 4, 2010. This is our five day “Masters Level” Microsoft App-V 4.6 Concepts, Administration, and Sequencing class. This special class will feature not …

HyperV_Mon 1.7 Released

I added an updated version, Version 1.7, of HyperV_Mon today.

HyperV_Mon is a free monitoring tool for use with Microsoft Hyper-V. It provides a graphical display of the main performance indexes for both the VMs and the physical host. This includes CPU, Memory, Paging, as well as File and Network I/O traffic.

More importantly, it displays CPU “virtualization overhead” that …

OSD Illustrated Updated

Peter gave me a “heads-up” on a couple of new optional things in the OSD that I had not been aware of. These are now added to the OSD Illustrated.  Both are optional to support odd cases for 64-bit operating systems.  Normally you don’t need these new parameters, even if you are running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, …