Blogs from TMurgent
Today I am releasing the first of what should be an annual series of “Report Cards” on the state of the MSIX space.
You can get and download the report from this link.
This report covers the state of the three basic aspects of MSIX:
How do can you automate common changes you need to make to your App-V Packages? AutoUpdatePackage, a new command line utility that is part of TMEdit.
Common Scenarios:
Over the past 6 years, my AppV_Manage tool has become a standard part of App-V packaging at so many companies around the world, initially as a companion to aid in quickly testing, but then to aid in troubleshooting and diagnosis, and …
At the Windows Developer Conference this March, Microsoft announced MSIX as their latest idea of the future for application delivery. This followed with more details released at the Microsoft Build Conference in May. I applaud these efforts by Microsoft; they follow the call I made last year for the development of a new standard application format that meets both the …
It seems strange that I’ve never written this article before. I haven’t needed to. But we need to be reminded now and then.
Those of us using App-V, which includes most of the largest, and best run, enterprises around the world, do so because it is the easiest way to customize, prepare, and deliver applications to internal users. That’s …
File this one under “Things to consider when your app doesn’t work”.
What the customer wanted:
I was working with a large customer that is in the Health Care business. They had an application, well maybe we should call it an integrated suite of applications, that is used to tune hearing aids. One major app and a ton …
Call it the case of the missing shortcut. Although I discovered the issue because of App-V, the culprit really turns out to be the OS itself.
As some of you know I am busy working on a new App-V tool. As part of the testing, I built a number of test applications (or pulled out oldies-but-goodies that I already had) …
Two days ago about I wrote about CReg/Vreg because I anticipated the fix coming in March’s OS rollup. So surprise! The following day we get fixes a month early.
The totality of information coming from Microsoft about the changes are included in the KB article for the February rollup for Windows 10 1709: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4074588/windows-10-update-kb4074588. …