Blogs from TMurgent
Version 4.5 of PsfTooling is now available in the Microsoft Store. A free tool, it is used in conjunction with the Microsoft MSIX Packaging tool to add and configure the Package Support Framework (PSF) during the repackaging process.
For those unaware, PSF stands for Package Support Framework, an open source utility that I contribute to for helping traditional …
On November 3rd, I’ll be working a very low paying job that I do a few times a year. You see, I am a poll worker for my local precinct whenever there are elections. Elections occur between 1 and 4 times a year, depending on the year and this year we have them all. I’m asking you, on that day, …
The Package Support Framework, or PSF, is an open source project hosted by Microsoft up on GitHub. The PSF is useful when building MSIX packages for older Win32 and .Net based applications. It allows you to build in Detours based shims to alter the behavior of the application without needing access to the app source code.
Open to community …
PowerShell has an annoying, to me, idea about security. Yeah, yeah, we all love security, blah blah blah. But…
But I make heavy use of my own PowerShell scripting for use in my Lab.
I even wrote my own PowerShell module (see PassiveInstall ) to simplify much of the scripting I do around automating application installs and configuration for packaging. …
One of the things I talked about when App-V was going into the core of the OS was how it was going to provide new opportunities to improve App-V. And the prime example I gave was how the virtual registry worked. Well I was eventually proved right, although the transition is proving to be a bit bumpy for some folks …
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It’s summer. Who should work all that hard anyway? I’m letting the AutoSequencer do the work for me.
With the March 2017 release of Microsoft Windows also came the 1703 version of the Windows ADK. The ADK contains a number of tools used by both developers and IT Pros and is generally updated with each OS release. When you go |
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The Application Book
This is a book for packagers of all types. I find that even the most seasoned of packagers are fuzzy (at best) on what all that stuff that installers do is really for. So in our Master’s Level App-V Training classes I have been diving more and more into how application installers work and what they are |
Introducing a new experiment in learning from TMurgent.
There really is no substitute for a full instructor led course from us to prepare yourself for successful packaging of applications using Microsoft App-V. And if you haven’t taken one of our classes I’d recommend asking any of the hundreds of people who have taken one just how valuable the class …