Blogs from TMurgent
Tim is a Microsoft MVP, and a Citrix CTP Fellow.
He is an expert in App-V and MSIX.
This is a story about a tool that shouldn’t need to exist, but has proved to be just so darned handy over the years. It was originally written almost 10 years ago, and I recently released an updated version to add more features. This free tool is called LaunchIT.
The most common problem that cause people to ask me …
I was working with an Application Service Provider client this week that was having issues with deploying QuickBooks Professional to their Citrix XenApp Servers using App-V. Quick Books is a bit of a pain to sequence, as you need to work around their licensing strategy which is tied to the CPU. We have had a recipe for years that works …
The latest installment in this video series is now out. A look at App-V 4.6 SP1 and solving a Windows 7 Jumplist issue with App-V and the application Skype.
Runs 32 minutes.…
CATEGORY: Way unsupported by anyone!
Date: September 18, 2011
| EDIT: See comments for resolution to getting App-V to work. |
While I installed the Windows 8 Developers Pre-release build last week as soon as I could, I was rather tied up all week in that I was running my App-V training class, so I didn’t have time to do much more …
You’d think it would be easier than this; that SCCM could at least keep it’s own clients up to date. No. So best I document this all in one place in case someone else runs into it.
Issue: Upgrade SCCCM 2007 to R3, and Create a package to install the App-V 4.6 (with or without SP1) client and get it …
Thanks to Ryan Walters, wherever you are for this!
I love the Internet Explorer feature to remember entries in form data. Well, at least I love it again, thanks to this tip. For some time I hated it every time I hit certain websites. Why? Because one time I mistyped an entry.
Usually this happens because my right hand hitting …
App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer added a lot of detection logic to help identify issues with attempted sequencings. One of those features was the detection of device drivers, as virtualizing device drivers is not supported. I have seen this feature working in the past, and assumed that I could count on it. Maybe not…
In a comment here on the blog…
While looking into Windows IO/Mem performance on a rainy day (i.e. “no golf”), I noticed something that I do in my Hyper-V lab setup that kills performance.
I build new VMs all of the time. Usually they are for a simple test I build with MDT and I throw away the VM after a couple of weeks. I do it …
