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Over the holidays, I created a video explaining the technologies used in application and desktop delivery. It’s just about 7 minutes, but should help you understand where the different products fit in.
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I’m Converted: How I Convert Packages from App-V 4.x to 5.1
This has to rank among the top posts that I never thought I would write in my entire life. I mean, it is right up there with “Why I’ll never play golf again”. If we had subtitles, the subtitle of this article would be “The 5.1 Converter Doesn’t Suck“. High praise indeed!
Abstract
This post details out how …
Today We Learn About Elevation, Integrity Levels, and UIAccess
With the App-V MVPs busy at the MVP Summit this week, I’ll offer up this rather long post about elevation, starting with some fairly well known basics and advancing into the absurd detail.
Applications sometimes do things that cause UAC prompts to qualify a process to increase its security settings or level. Most enterprise policies, and Microsoft recommended practices, restrict …
Putting your App-V Scripts directly into the .AppV 5.1 file
Using Scripts to aid the deployment of App-V packages makes the virtual applications more flexible and deployable in production. Prior to the App-V 5.1 release, this was done by manually editing the external Deployment and/or User Configuration.xml files. Not only was the editing originally a clunky process (leading to the development of a free editor tool ACE to edit those …
The case of the misnamed object
I suddenly seem to be getting asked by a number of software vendors to help them support customers that are using App-V. This is fantastic! Vendors that want to support App-V? We have dreamed of this for 15 years now. I am thinking that four is perhaps more than just a blip, maybe it is a trend. I certainly hope …
App-V and .Net Native Images Updated
Last year I wrote an article on App-V and .Net Native Images and how they didn’t work with App-V.
I was wrong, but it wasn’t my fault. It turns out that the trusted tooling that I used, the Microsoft SysInternals ProcessExplorer, was lying to me.
One of the uses of ProcessExplorer is to view the modules (fancy name …
AppVManifestEditor (AVME)
AppVManifestEditor is a new free GUI based tool for editing the AppXManifest file that Microsoft is exposing in the sequencer for editing in the new 5.1 release of App-V.
Microsoft is making the file available for export/import within the sequencer. The syntax of this xml file is undocumented, and editing the xml can be very tricky, so a tool is …
Virtual App Runtime Debugging with Updated AppV_Manage 5
I am pleased to announce version 5 of the free AppV_Manage tool, and in particular the new run-time debugging capabilities. You can find the tool downloader at this link here.
When dealing with a difficult application, you often need to use several tools to try to find out what is wrong. In the past, I had integrated a number …