Blogs from TMurgent
This week Microsoft made available a preview of the first publicly available code involving Project Centennial, so I played with it a bit and if you are thinking of doing the same this post might help.
Project Centennial is about taking standard Win32 and .Net applications and creating an AppX package that contains a Windows Universal App (UWA) front end …
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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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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!
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This post details out how …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …