Citrix Technology Professional Award

I am pleased to announce that I have just been named a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP). The CTP is Citrix’s version of the Microsoft MVP. I rewards professionals that contribute to the community and establishes a two-way dialog with the company, both to improve our understanding of Citrix and as a conduit so that Citrix can access the industry …

Briforum 2009 Videos Released

BrianMadden.com has released the videos from the 2009 conference for free viewing. This includes three sessions that I ran:

This is a session we modified at the last minute when we got permission from Microsoft the night before to show 64-bit app sequencing using an unreleased build of what would become the 4.6 release. It was quite a coop and …

App-V Training Updates

TMurgent is coming back to Sweden! Details are being finalized, but TMurgent and Virisit IT are teaming up again for a class in Malmo (across the bridge from Copenhagen, Denmark) the week of May 31-June 4, 2010. This is our five day “Masters Level” Microsoft App-V 4.6 Concepts, Administration, and Sequencing class. This special class will feature not …

HyperV_Mon 1.7 Released

I added an updated version, Version 1.7, of HyperV_Mon today.

HyperV_Mon is a free monitoring tool for use with Microsoft Hyper-V. It provides a graphical display of the main performance indexes for both the VMs and the physical host. This includes CPU, Memory, Paging, as well as File and Network I/O traffic.

More importantly, it displays CPU “virtualization overhead” that …

OSD Illustrated Updated

Peter gave me a “heads-up” on a couple of new optional things in the OSD that I had not been aware of. These are now added to the OSD Illustrated. Both are optional to support odd cases for 64-bit operating systems. Normally you don’t need these new parameters, even if you are running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, …

The Case of App-V 4.6 Duplicate Package GUIDs

When the App-V sequencer creates a GUID for the package that needs to be unique. If somehow two packages get the same GUID, you will run into an error at deployment and need to re-sequence.

In older releases, people would run into this issue if they took a VM snapshot with the sequencer up and running. Typically, they create the …

There will be an App-V Book!!!!!

We finally made the decision and work is well under way. We will publish a book on App-V!

The book will be focused on being a reference for the App-V Client. We have a ton of material in the Companion Guides from our “Masters Level” App-V Training Classes that we do not really teach to so much as refer to …

App-V 4.6: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and More

App-V 4.6 delivers big integration benefits with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and more

[Note: This is an updated version on 1/6/2011 of the original 2/22/2010 post based on recent information provided by Microsoft on Branch Cache. See also this post: https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=306 ]

While many of us have been waiting on the release of App-V 4.6 so that we …