Category: Tools

OSD Reference Book Published (EBook)

Tim Mangan today publishes an e-book today for the Microsoft App-V Community.  “App-V OSD Reference Book” is an unofficial reference manual for the OSD syntax used by App-V.For years, his online tool “The OSD Illustrated” has been the best reference to this XML based syntax.  Now Tim has formally written the missing reference guide to the syntax.  As
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A Failure To Launch (Tool for App-V)

Today I “launched” a new free tool to provide some organized help with App-V Client errors.  This tool, called A Failure To Launch, is a Silverlight app that allows you to search for information on an error code produced by the App-V Client.

For each of the codes covered, the tool provides information about the cause (or possible causes), …

AppV_DeployNPublish 1.9

Version 1.9 of the AppV Deploy and Publish tools is now available (tools section of the main TMurgent website). This version fixes a few anoyances. AppV_DeployApp now remembers the configured content folder, and you can now deploy a second app without having to exit and restart; all three programs now have a /help option from the command line.…

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 …

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, …