Blogs from TMurgent
I haven’t posted a sequencing video in a while, so I was due. Then a customer queried me about dealing with a large package. When I looked into the question, I found that the way I used to deal with large packages isn’t supported by the sequencer any more (when did that change?).
So I worked out a …
Last week Microsoft opened up the Beta for App-V 4.6 Service Pack 2. You can apply at https://connect.microsoft.com for permission to join the Beta. They ask a lot of detailed questions about your environment, but it seems to be an automatic approval into the program. You find the beta under the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, although it supports both Windows …
Just a quick note about an awesome event I am running next month.
The 4th annual Virtualization Deep Dive Day is scheduled for Saturday March 10th, 2012, in Randolph MA (South of Boston). This multi-track event draws from the best of the best to talk about all aspects of virtualization, from server to desktop, application to storage. With a Keynote …
With 2012 here and vacations behind us it is time to get serious about some App-V training. So what are our plans for training in the next quarter?
| February 6th-10th Irvine, California, USA | |
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We are working with a new partner, Agile360, to finally bring our Masters Level App-V Training class to California. We always get a lot of requests for |
An introduction…
Dealing 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. …
I 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 …
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 …
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.