Blogs from TMurgent
You probably saw my post about the end of life for App-V About Microsoft App-V End of Life – Confessions of a Guru (tmurgent.com)
In this post, I’ll highlight a summary of what a migration project looks like. You have time, but if your organization depends on App-V today, someone should be starting a planning project now.
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Last fall, Microsoft updated the end-of-life statements for Microsoft App-V with a date of April 2026. You can see the current statement at this link: MDOP support extended – Microsoft Lifecycle | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft has never, to my knowledge, adequately explained why App-V has to go away. However, nothing lasts forever, and it has been a good run — …
TMEdit is the licensed and more capable tool for fixing up App-V packages (the application virtualization system that actually works) since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft Sequencer Tool to create the final package. TMEdit Download (tmurgent.com)
The TMEdit tool analyzes and fixes App-V packages. This release contains the following changes:
For years I have heard from customers and vendors in the packaging and application delivery businesses about how there isn’t a good place anymore to find information on applications. Long ago there was a good site (created by Bob Kelly) named AppDeploy but that was sold to a vendor and renamed to ITNinja and, well let’s just say it stopped …
This post documents the April (2022) releases for MSIX. There are three parts:
Each have their own section in this post below.
The Package Support Framework (PSF) was originally an open-source project to help Win32/DotNet applications run when inside an MSIX Container. TMurgent has taken up the support for …
Now that I’m back in the lab I’ve had a chance to test the latest ADK Sequencer for App-V. Here are the results:
Updates 2022/1/3: See Update on App-V Sequencer Versions – Confessions of a Guru (tmurgent.com)
UPDATED FYI,
It seems that in the latest version of the ADK (21H1) requires an OS build that is newer than 21H1. It isn’t very clear in the documentation, but, at least for the sequencer, that version of the ADK requires an insider’s build (currently) for …
Most of our business is in training the IT Staffs of large organizations to enable them to better prepare and deliver applications to their (mostly) internal users, specifically around the Microsoft App-V and MSIX technologies. We also do some consulting in the Citrix and End-User-Computing space, and sell some tools. And the bulk of our …