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.…
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Microsoft Application Virtualization
Two new OSD Policies for App-V
Microsoft has informed us of two policies that exist for the OSD that, up to now, had been undocumented. It is unclear when these policies were added, but clearly they are supported in 4.6, and they may have been around for years.
These policies, now documented in The OSD Illustrated (an interactive online application that depicts and describes the entire …
Tim Mangan named MVP (again)
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Well I received my notice today. Microsoft has named me a “Most Valuable Professional”, or MVP, for Application Virtualization (App-V) for another year. Not a huge surprise, but one always gets nervous until it arrives. |
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 …
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, …
The Case of App-V 4.6 Duplicate Package GUIDs
When the App-V sequencer creates a GUID for the package that needs to be unique. If somehow two packages get the same GUID, you will run into an error at deployment and need to re-sequence.
In older releases, people would run into this issue if they took a VM snapshot with the sequencer up and running. Typically, they create the …
There will be an App-V Book!!!!!
We finally made the decision and work is well under way. We will publish a book on App-V!
The book will be focused on being a reference for the App-V Client. We have a ton of material in the Companion Guides from our “Masters Level” App-V Training Classes that we do not really teach to so much as refer to …