In conjunction with my upcoming book and sessions at Briforum, I am releasing a number of new and updated tools involving Windows Performance analysis. These tools may be found in the Performance Tools section of the TMurgent website. These tools are generally free to download and use (the only restrictions are for ISVs that want to use them to …
Author: Tim Mangan
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
App-V 5.0 (Beta1) Shortcut Editing Tricks
I have been having a problem with some of my sequences with the new App-V 5.0 Beta1 release; sometimes the client doesn’t get changes I make to the shortcut/FTA settings in the sequence editor.
I mentioned this to Patrick before I headed off to speak at the Citrix Synergy “Geek Speak Live” in San Francisco last week. He was supposed …
AppV 5.0: The 10GB Package
…App-V 5.0 Beta: What happened to the OSDs?
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
A long staple of App-V has been the OSD file. This XML based file, along with the sfttray.exe command that runs it, has been the behind-the-scenes mechanism for how users start virtual applications. but you won’t find them in App-V …
Breaking into the new APP-V 5.0 APPV format
App-V 5.0 Beta: The End of CSIDLs
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Plowing my way through the new Sequencer. Looking at the options page of the sequencer, the ParseItems look a little different.
One of the most important jobs of the sequencer is to make the package Machine, OS, and User neutral. …
Beta for App-V 5.0
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
In a blog post today, Microsoft’s Karri Alexion-Tiernan announced the Beta for App-V 5.0, plus an additional MDOP add-on called UE-V.
App-V 5.0 is the most dramatic change to App-V in a really long time, possibly the biggest since …
Virtual Applications on the Desktop, on the Server, and In the Cloud
I had an opportunity to speak before our user group on Application Virtualization a few weeks ago. We record the videos so we now have this talk available online.
The basis of the talk was a higher level talk than I normally do, but it does explain what I see going on in the AppVirt space right now, which is …