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Microsoft Application Virtualization
Once upon a time in a land far, far, away, when an APPV virtual package landed on a client machine, the OSD file was cached in a special folder using the filename it was packaged with. This made it easy to debug a new package at the client by editing the local copy.
Then one day that changed. When the …
Did you ever sequence an app, give it the ol’ smoke test and think it is good to go, just have have it thrown back at you because the although the app works great, it always crashes after about 10 minutes after launch? If so, this is the blog post for you! This post will cover some old ground and …
| NOTE: This post was updated on April 5, 2013. The latest versions of the charts are now found at this link on the TMurgent main site under the App-V 5 tools. |
Microsoft provides a variety of libraries with versions of Visual Studio that developers can reference in their programs. Of course, over time these libraries are updated and replaced It’s summer. My new book is almost published, and I’m cutting back on my golf (well, a little) due to a bad ankle. So what do I do? Dig into the App-V 5.0 Beta, of course! With lots of shiney new thigs to look at, plus a few dark corners with cobwebs to poke into, it is almost as good …
I have been doing Application Virtualization for a long time – a dozen years now. For a long time AppVirt was more of a niche than it is today. Originally it was used with Citrix and Terminal Servers, but even when desktop and laptop support was added it was used by a relatively small number of leading edge companies. That …
If you have a client (4.6 SP1 x86 Windows Desktop for sure, perhaps other installs and other installers) that is currently configured for a cache size policy of a maximum size and attempt to use the Client Management Console to modify the setting to instead use the Minimum Free Space option, when you hit apply you will get an error:…
We released “The Client Book, About Microsoft App-V” some time back, and it has been a tremendous success. To date it has sold over two and a half what we ever expected to sell. Today, we released the paperback version of the book, which makes it available at a bit more afforadable price.
We are also pleased to finally release …
I have been having a problem with some of my sequences with the new App-V 5.0 Beta1 release; sometimes the client doesn’t get changes I make to the shortcut/FTA settings in the sequence editor.
I mentioned this to Patrick before I headed off to speak at the Citrix Synergy “Geek Speak Live” in San Francisco last week. He was supposed …