This month I had a great opportunity to meet with the folks from all over Europe at the 2015 European App-V User Group Meeting held near Amsterdam in the Netherlands on March 20th. Sold out, as always, the room was crammed to the 100 maximum capacity. While there, I gave a presentation that was a deep-dive on the numerous ways …
Author: Tim Mangan
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
App-V Internet Explorer Add-on Conflict: Watch those Registry Keys
Students run into this problem in our App-V training classes every time.
The Problem
In one of the labs we deal with creating and deploying a handful of browser plugins in a connection group. And everyone runs into an issue of some of them seemingly not working. The lab specifies a set of plug-ins to use, but I usually encourage …
JreBlock: Script for hiding native Java
Originally by: Patrick Mangan
Updated by: Tim Mangan for version 3.0
JreBlock: is a simple PowerShell script to help when you need to sequence a Java JRE inside of an App-V virtual environment and want to block visibility to other Java versions that might be natively installed at the client.
The typical technique to sequencing Java JREs is to actively …
Why our App-V Training Classes are Finally Upgraded to “Masters” Level
When App-V 5 was released two years ago, I blogged about how we were renaming our training classes as “Experts” level, rather than the Masters Level designation that we used for the App-V 4.6 classes.
The idea was that while I had been working with pre-releases for almost a year, I knew that we didn’t know enough about the …
App-V 5.0 Sp3 Upgrade: Clear Browser Cache to clear issue on Server MC upgrade
Just in case this bites someone else…
An upgrade of App-V Server to 5.0 SP3 includes a replacement Management Console. As this is Silverlight based, this means that the website delivers a Silverlight XAP file to your browser. Where it remains in your browser cache.
Upgrade of the server does not always mean that the browser cache gets flushed. So …
Tim on App-V 5.0 SP3
This week Microsoft released the anticipated App-V 5.0 SP3, along with an updated UE-V 2.1, as part of the MDOP fall release. We normally expect the MDOP release around November 1st, so this drop is a little later than usual for some reason. But it is well worth the wait.
While Microsoft App-V is generally regarded as the …
App-V and .Net Performance
NOTE: This post contains some great information, but has been updated in this post.
This post is about the performance impacts of combining Microsoft App-V 5 sequenced virtual applications with applications that use Microsoft .Net. I wish this story ended with good news, or at least reasonable actions that you could take to improve performance, but it isn’t so. Instead …
Don’t let your App-V 5 Reporting Database grow out of control!
The App-V Reporting database for App-V 5 and above is great for monitoring all usage of your virtual applications. This is quite helpful when it comes to license compliance. While it won’t prevent (accidental) usage of unlicensed apps, it is very useful for detecting usage as part of a program to “true up” your license allocations.
The Reporting Server is …