Blogs from TMurgent
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
NOTE: This post is part of a series. You might want to start at the beginning:
Microsoft App-V, the App-V being shorthand …
With Microsoft now including App-V directly inside the operating system for Windows 10 Enterprise and Education SKU desktop customers, we need a way to help people get started with App-V today. While there is a wealth of detail information available online from the community some of it is outdated and most is too detailed for someone starting out. This five …
In two weeks we will have the final Briforum conference in Boston, as Brian has announced that he is leaving TechTarget, and IT for a while. This will be the 20th Briforum, which I have had the unique honor of being the only person other than Brian to speak at all 20 events. If you’re on the fence, you …
This week Microsoft made available a preview of the first publicly available code involving Project Centennial, so I played with it a bit and if you are thinking of doing the same this post might help.
Project Centennial is about taking standard Win32 and .Net applications and creating an AppX package that contains a Windows Universal App (UWA) front end …
This week, Microsoft finally announced their plans for App-V. They will move App-V into the core of the operating system. Microsoft’s Steve Thomas, speaking in a webinar with Flexera, made the announcement (near the end of the webinar). This is HUUUUUUUUUGE!
This work has been ongoing for some time, and I had the opportunity to meet with the …
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Over the holidays, I created a video explaining the technologies used in application and desktop delivery. It’s just about 7 minutes, but should help you understand where the different products fit in.
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With the App-V MVPs busy at the MVP Summit this week, I’ll offer up this rather long post about elevation, starting with some fairly well known basics and advancing into the absurd detail.
Applications sometimes do things that cause UAC prompts to qualify a process to increase its security settings or level. Most enterprise policies, and Microsoft recommended practices, restrict …
Using Scripts to aid the deployment of App-V packages makes the virtual applications more flexible and deployable in production. Prior to the App-V 5.1 release, this was done by manually editing the external Deployment and/or User Configuration.xml files. Not only was the editing originally a clunky process (leading to the development of a free editor tool ACE to edit those …