The case of the missing App-V files

Image courtesy of ddpavumba at FreeDigitalPhotos.netFile 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 …

Shortcuts limit discovered in Windows 10

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) …

Announcing PassiveInstall

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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 …

How I sequence Java in App-V

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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

The case of the misnamed object

I suddenly seem to be getting asked by a number of software vendors to help them support customers that are using App-V.  This is fantastic!  Vendors that want to support App-V?  We have dreamed of this for 15 years now.  I am thinking that four is perhaps more than just a blip, maybe it is a trend.  I certainly hope …