Blogs from TMurgent
Originally published April 3, 2015 : Last Updated December 10, 2020
12/10/2020 Update: Added Bloomberg Terminal
5/18/2019 Update: Added Aspect RTA 18.2.
8/7/2018 Updated: Added RStudio. I suspect this one can be solved other ways as well, but PVAD is an easy way to solve it.
7/27/2017 Update: Added a new app reported in. Also, I am seriously questioning if …
I build a LOT of App-V Sequencer and Client VMs over the course of a year. Not only do I test each release, but hotfixes and a bunch of private builds that I get, and then I also need to handle changes to my own tools (which need testing before release). Plus I want to reuse the technique to build …
Last June, I posted a way to sequence AutoCAD 2015 using App-V 5 on a Blog post here. This was done using the then latest-and-greatest version of App-V, 5.0 SP2 with Hotfix 4. We had been having trouble with many AutoCAD versions since the 2014 versions started appearing with some sort of incompatibility, and Hotfix 4 overcame whatever that …
While everyone knows about the AppV_Manage tool, used for testing new App-V Packages, many either do not know or have forgotten about two of the other tools.
In fact, unless you were already using them you probably didn’t notice the updates last September. I recently noticed that I totally forgot to blog and tweet about the changes. Well even newer …
Coming Soon! In version 4.0 of AppV_Manage, we will have an optional (paid for) feature to generate package documentation in Microsoft Word format. This work is an outgrowth of the package analyzer function. In version 4 I have enhanced the analysis, going beyond reporting on extensions reported by App-V but also analyzing the package contents to see some of what …
This month I had a great opportunity to meet with the folks from all over Europe at the 2015 European App-V User Group Meeting held near Amsterdam in the Netherlands on March 20th. Sold out, as always, the room was crammed to the 100 maximum capacity. While there, I gave a presentation that was a deep-dive on the numerous ways …
Students run into this problem in our App-V training classes every time.
The Problem
In one of the labs we deal with creating and deploying a handful of browser plugins in a connection group. And everyone runs into an issue of some of them seemingly not working. The lab specifies a set of plug-ins to use, but I usually encourage …
Originally by: Patrick Mangan
Updated by: Tim Mangan for version 3.0
JreBlock: is a simple PowerShell script to help when you need to sequence a Java JRE inside of an App-V virtual environment and want to block visibility to other Java versions that might be natively installed at the client.
The typical technique to sequencing Java JREs is to actively …