Blogs from TMurgent
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 …
AppV_Manage is a free tool from TMurgent used to test newly sequenced App-V 5 application packages. Versions 3.1 and 3.2 have added integrations to round out this phase of the packaging experience.
Automation When Citrix announced the end of life for Citrix Streaming (See What’s a Citrix Streaming Customer to do now?) there was a need for a tool
While I continue to try to get a better grip on connection groups, let’s continue documenting some of the side issues I have come across. Today, I’ll focus on a single package and either want to block visibility of a potential local installation or need to allow visibility of something local, like a license file.
In attempting to work solutions …
Maybe there is something to AppV_Manage you’ll find useful. This free tool from the App-V 5 Tools section of the TMurgent website was recently covered as a great source for troubleshooting App-V in a Microsoft support blogpost on TechNet by Microsoft’s own John Behneman!
Check it out here: https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2014/01/30/how-to-troubleshoot-app-v-5-0-deploymentconfig-amp-userconfig-script-deployment-failures-using-appv-manage.aspx …
One of the big benefits of App-V has always been that applications that needed certain kinds of remediation to work today were automatically dealt with.
I’m talking about apps that were developed without complete support for multiple users (or multiple tenants), or for apps that assumed systems that have no security protection to write to common locations.
We just sequenced …
App_Remediation is a new free tool I am releasing to the public today.
App_Remediation is a console application designed to be used with App-V 5 (and above) to save and restore application related data (ARD) between locations that normally do not roam and those that do.
App-V now isolates ARD changes and redirects the saved file changes to locations that …
There is nothing like a good set of tools ready when you have a repair project to do. But too many tools are distracting.
Working with App-V 5 through all of the pre-releases and now the final release for some time, I have settled on my three favorite tools. And it is time to let you in on the secret.…
The following is taken from my book Windows System Performance Through Caching.
When the Windows OS boots, it uses information from previous boot experiences to speed up the boot process. Microsoft calls this “ReadyBoot”.
The process of booting up the OS involves both a lot of disk access and CPU instructions. But left alone, the resources used at boot …