Blogs from TMurgent
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
Quick thought of the day.
When developing software for the enterprise, the incentives exist to load up with lots of features. The enterprise procurement process emphasizes getting more features for similar money, leading the vendors to add more and more features.
The folks buying to put stuff in the cloud are not the same. They value simplicity. They value automation. …
As promised, here is Slide Deck from my presentation at Citrix Synergy 2013.
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Be sure to schedule your Citrix Synergy Show to see me on stage a Geek Speak Live early on Friday morning!
Can you believe it? I will be on stage at 8:45AM on Friday May 24th at Geek Speak Live at session SYN510 (room 210B). Not some Citrix person droning on about the virtues of the next great thing they …
App_Remediation is a new free tool I am releasing to the public today.
App_Remediation is a console application designed to be used with App-V 5 (and above) to save and restore application related data (ARD) between locations that normally do not roam and those that do.
App-V now isolates ARD changes and redirects the saved file changes to locations that …
It haunts me still! In every release of App-V since 4.0 there has been a new and unique way to generate apps with duplicate GUIDS. I have blogged about this both here and here. Granted, each time it was a case of wanting to be efficient with MY time and it was solved by careful setup of my snapshots. …
If you have sequenced on App-V 5, you probably have wondered what to use for the “Primary Virtual Directory” (PVAD).
Me too. But in this blog post I will discuss what I know and what I do (currently).
Under the older versions of App-V, we called this the asset root folder, and all sorts of names, but in …
There is nothing like a good set of tools ready when you have a repair project to do. But too many tools are distracting.
Working with App-V 5 through all of the pre-releases and now the final release for some time, I have settled on my three favorite tools. And it is time to let you in on the secret.…
The following is taken from my book Windows System Performance Through Caching.
When the Windows OS boots, it uses information from previous boot experiences to speed up the boot process. Microsoft calls this “ReadyBoot”.
The process of booting up the OS involves both a lot of disk access and CPU instructions. But left alone, the resources used at boot …