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 …
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Microsoft Application Virtualization
App-V and .Net Native Images Updated
Last year I wrote an article on App-V and .Net Native Images and how they didn’t work with App-V.
I was wrong, but it wasn’t my fault. It turns out that the trusted tooling that I used, the Microsoft SysInternals ProcessExplorer, was lying to me.
One of the uses of ProcessExplorer is to view the modules (fancy name …
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 …
AVDCG and AVSS Updates
While everyone knows about the AppV_Manage tool, used for testing new App-V Packages, many either do not know or have forgotten about two of the other tools.
In fact, unless you were already using them you probably didn’t notice the updates last September. I recently noticed that I totally forgot to blog and tweet about the changes. Well even newer …
At the App-V User Group
This month I had a great opportunity to meet with the folks from all over Europe at the 2015 European App-V User Group Meeting held near Amsterdam in the Netherlands on March 20th. Sold out, as always, the room was crammed to the 100 maximum capacity. While there, I gave a presentation that was a deep-dive on the numerous ways …
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 …