Citrix Stuns Computing World in Barcelona

For Release not before October 24, 08:00GMT

Citrix Systems, of Ft. Lauderdale Florida, today stunned the computing world with an explosive announcement at their Europen partner conference in Barcelona Spain today.

Mr. TCitrix President and CEO Mark B. Templeton is well known for ending his keynotes with “One More Thing”, and this was a doozy. “Today, for the first time, I …

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I Was a Cloud Service Provider, and Didn’t Know It!

I realized this summer that I was a player in The Cloud really early on. Yeah, me. The one who spent the last two years calling it “Clown Computing” rather than “Cloud Computing”. Yes, I will now fully admit that I was once a cloud junkie.
I will explain this in this post.
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PkgView 1.6 Released

toolsToday I released an updated version of the free PkgView tool. PkgView is used to view the file and registry changes that a user makes when running virtual applications with Microsoft App-V. These changes are stored in files with a “.pkg” extension associated with the user and the application.

These pkg files have traditionally been a bit of a black …

LaunchIt – a tool to control child programs

tools This is a story about a tool that shouldn’t need to exist, but has proved to be just so darned handy over the years. It was originally written almost 10 years ago, and I recently released an updated version to add more features. This free tool is called LaunchIT.

The most common problem that cause people to ask me …

App-V Package Branching and Issues

QuickBooks

I was working with an Application Service Provider client this week that was having issues with deploying QuickBooks Professional to their Citrix XenApp Servers using App-V. Quick Books is a bit of a pain to sequence, as you need to work around their licensing strategy which is tied to the CPU. We have had a recipe for years that works …

Day 1 with Windows 8 Dev build and App-V Client

CATEGORY: Way unsupported by anyone!

Date: September 18, 2011

EDIT: See comments for resolution to getting App-V to work.

While I installed the Windows 8 Developers Pre-release build last week as soon as I could, I was rather tied up all week in that I was running my App-V training class, so I didn’t have time to do much more …

SCCM 2007 R3 and AppV 4.6 [SP1]: Client Compatibilities

sccmYou’d think it would be easier than this; that SCCM could at least keep it’s own clients up to date. No. So best I document this all in one place in case someone else runs into it.

Issue: Upgrade SCCCM 2007 to R3, and Create a package to install the App-V 4.6 (with or without SP1) client and get it …