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 …
Author: Tim Mangan
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
Working with Centennial Preview App Converter
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 …
App-V to be added to Windows 10
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 …
New Video: Tim Explains Layers, Masks, and App-Virt
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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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Today We Learn About Elevation, Integrity Levels, and UIAccess
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 …
Putting your App-V Scripts directly into the .AppV 5.1 file
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 …
The case of the misnamed object
I suddenly seem to be getting asked by a number of software vendors to help them support customers that are using App-V. This is fantastic! Vendors that want to support App-V? We have dreamed of this for 15 years now. I am thinking that four is perhaps more than just a blip, maybe it is a trend. I certainly hope …
App-V and .Net Native Images Updated
Last year I wrote an article on App-V and .Net Native Images and how they didn’t work with App-V.
I was wrong, but it wasn’t my fault. It turns out that the trusted tooling that I used, the Microsoft SysInternals ProcessExplorer, was lying to me.
One of the uses of ProcessExplorer is to view the modules (fancy name …