Blogs from TMurgent
Recently, I outlined changes I made to the MSIX Package Support Framework (PSF) in this post. In that post I indicated that there was to be a follow-up submission into the PSF and then I would be releasing a new version of the free PsfTooling tool that includes the updated PSF. That work is now complete.
PsfTooling 3.1.0 is …
Those paying attention might know that I started a project last summer to contribute to the MSIX Package Support Framework, an open source project that Microsoft hosts up on GitHub.
I spent a month writing code to improve the PSF, and then started the long process of getting it pulled into the master source. It, uh, took a little longer …
Last week I released my Report Card on MSIX, a comprehensive look at how MSIX measures up today. A work in progress, MSIX can handle some of the applications that you are deploying today. And it is sure to get better in the future. But what about your apps specifically?
I’ve taken the lessons that I learned from all …
File this one under “Things to consider when your app doesn’t work”.
What the customer wanted:
I was working with a large customer that is in the Health Care business. They had an application, well maybe we should call it an integrated suite of applications, that is used to tune hearing aids. One major app and a ton …
Call it the case of the missing shortcut. Although I discovered the issue because of App-V, the culprit really turns out to be the OS itself.
As some of you know I am busy working on a new App-V tool. As part of the testing, I built a number of test applications (or pulled out oldies-but-goodies that I already had) …
A PowerShell Automation Framework for Application Packaging with Passive/Silent Installations.
Today I am releasing another free tool for the community, called PassiveInstall, plus a free online training course for it (see bottom of this article for a link to the training). A PowerShell module intended for use by anyone wanting to create customized automated installations of vendor applications …
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Earlier this week I was queried (by Andrew) about an issue with the JreBlock script we use for sequencing Java. There was an issue with using in on 64-bit machines. Patrick wrote the original version for us more than 4 years ago, and we were using a different version in our training classes than was on the website |
NOTE: This post is part of a series. You might want to start at the beginning:
To distribute App-V packages, you have …