| Just where the heck is StealthPuppy when you need him? Somebody has to talk about Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and App-V. At times it has been hard to sequence Adobe Reader, but these days you can almost do it while sleeping. OK, so I’ll take a shot at writing about it because old posts make it sound so hard. |  Photo |
Tag: Sequencing
AppVManifestEditor (AVME)
AppVManifestEditor is a new free GUI based tool for editing the AppXManifest file that Microsoft is exposing in the sequencer for editing in the new 5.1 release of App-V.
Microsoft is making the file available for export/import within the sequencer. The syntax of this xml file is undocumented, and editing the xml can be very tricky, so a tool is …
Virtual App Runtime Debugging with Updated AppV_Manage 5
I am pleased to announce version 5 of the free AppV_Manage tool, and in particular the new run-time debugging capabilities. You can find the tool downloader at this link here.
When dealing with a difficult application, you often need to use several tools to try to find out what is wrong. In the past, I had integrated a number …
Sequencing AutoCAD 2015 Update
Last June, I posted a way to sequence AutoCAD 2015 using App-V 5 on a Blog post here. This was done using the then latest-and-greatest version of App-V, 5.0 SP2 with Hotfix 4. We had been having trouble with many AutoCAD versions since the 2014 versions started appearing with some sort of incompatibility, and Hotfix 4 overcame whatever that …
App-V Internet Explorer Add-on Conflict: Watch those Registry Keys
Students run into this problem in our App-V training classes every time.
The Problem
In one of the labs we deal with creating and deploying a handful of browser plugins in a connection group. And everyone runs into an issue of some of them seemingly not working. The lab specifies a set of plug-ins to use, but I usually encourage …
JreBlock: Script for hiding native Java
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 …
App-V 5 and App Related Data
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 …
AppV is Hot Now
Microsoft App-V seems incredibly hot right now, with everyone getting ready to jump on App-V 5 when SP2 comes out. There is way more activity in this space than I have ever seen!
I have been running training classes on App-V for over six years now. Back when Microsoft bought Softricity, I saw an interest spike. But it was …