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 …
Author: Tim Mangan
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
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, …
The Case of App-V 4.6 Duplicate Package GUIDs
When the App-V sequencer creates a GUID for the package that needs to be unique. If somehow two packages get the same GUID, you will run into an error at deployment and need to re-sequence.
In older releases, people would run into this issue if they took a VM snapshot with the sequencer up and running. Typically, they create the …
There will be an App-V Book!!!!!
We finally made the decision and work is well under way. We will publish a book on App-V!
The book will be focused on being a reference for the App-V Client. We have a ton of material in the Companion Guides from our “Masters Level” App-V Training Classes that we do not really teach to so much as refer to …
App-V 4.6: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and More
App-V 4.6 delivers big integration benefits with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and more
[Note: This is an updated version on 1/6/2011 of the original 2/22/2010 post based on recent information provided by Microsoft on Branch Cache. See also this post: https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=306 ]
While many of us have been waiting on the release of App-V 4.6 so that we …
Windows Server 2008 RDS CALs and App-V Licensing
Windows Server 2008 RDS CALs and App-V Licensing[1]
| Note: This article is outdated and remains only for historical purposes. Licensing for App-V has changed over time, especially with the App-V client becoming part of the Client and Server OSs in Windows 10 and Server 2016. Licensing for App-V is now covered by a companies Enterprise or Education Agreement with |
Virtualization Deep Dive Day 2010
What a great day of training and education and networking! This year’s event was no less than awesome. With over 200 people registered for the event, watching live from four sites in two countries, and a great lineup of speakers who gave nothing but deep technical content, everyone had a blast! Well, except for Lee Benjamin, who got snowed …