Blogs from TMurgent
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Well here was a wasted hour trying to figure this one out. It should have been so easy!
Problem: Installed a lab App-V 5 Management/Publishing Server with default instance database on that server. Works great. Install second Management/Publishing server needing to use the remote database. Fails.
What could have been the problem: (but wasn’t)
Tim Mangan
TMurgent Technologies, LLP
September 22, 2014
Related Product: App-V 5.0 SP2 HF5 and prior
When we created the original application virtualization product, SoftGrid, streaming was a very important part of the implementation. Over the years, the streaming aspect has become less important to implementations, while remaining important to the decision makers that …
Maybe Steve Thomas isn’t as crazy as he looks? I thought he went a little nuts when he wrote this blog post and suggested that you should always sequence using VFS. I mean, that is dead set against everything Microsoft has ever said. I did not disagree with the idea of VFS’ing things, but I have never said to VFS …
A customer was using XenApp with PVS. The same PVS image was used on machines on a farm. They added App-V 5 to the PVS image and decided to use the PowerShell interface to add applications virtually at boot time. One of the servers refused every app, while everything else worked on the ‘identical’ servers.
Investigation showed that the Add …