Hello, my name is Patrick Mangan, and I have been sequencing with App-V. This year TMurgent added a sequencing service where we take on applications that customers are having a really hard time sequencing. Recently while working on one application that had a proprietary licensing scheme to work around I ran into another, unexpected error that I needed to troubleshoot.…
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Microsoft Application Virtualization
AppV 5.0: The 10GB Package
…App-V 5.0 Beta: What happened to the OSDs?
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
A long staple of App-V has been the OSD file. This XML based file, along with the sfttray.exe command that runs it, has been the behind-the-scenes mechanism for how users start virtual applications. but you won’t find them in App-V …
Breaking into the new APP-V 5.0 APPV format
App-V 5.0 Beta: The End of CSIDLs
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Plowing my way through the new Sequencer. Looking at the options page of the sequencer, the ParseItems look a little different.
One of the most important jobs of the sequencer is to make the package Machine, OS, and User neutral. …
Beta for App-V 5.0
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
In a blog post today, Microsoft’s Karri Alexion-Tiernan announced the Beta for App-V 5.0, plus an additional MDOP add-on called UE-V.
App-V 5.0 is the most dramatic change to App-V in a really long time, possibly the biggest since …
Virtual Applications on the Desktop, on the Server, and In the Cloud
I had an opportunity to speak before our user group on Application Virtualization a few weeks ago. We record the videos so we now have this talk available online.
The basis of the talk was a higher level talk than I normally do, but it does explain what I see going on in the AppVirt space right now, which is …
Sequencing with Tim Mangan: Episode 13 Posted
I haven’t posted a sequencing video in a while, so I was due. Then a customer queried me about dealing with a large package. When I looked into the question, I found that the way I used to deal with large packages isn’t supported by the sequencer any more (when did that change?).
So I worked out a …