Category: Sequencing

App-V 4.6 Sp2 Beta

Last week Microsoft opened up the Beta for App-V 4.6 Service Pack 2. You can apply at https://connect.microsoft.com for permission to join the Beta.  They ask a lot of detailed questions about your environment, but it seems to be an automatic approval into the program.  You find the beta under the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, although it supports both Windows …

App-V Training Updates – Winter 2012

With 2012 here and vacations behind us it is time to get serious about some App-V training. So what are our plans for training in the next quarter?

February 6th-10th Irvine, California, USA
irvine We are working with a new partner, Agile360, to finally bring our Masters Level App-V Training class to California. We always get a lot of requests for
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Custom App-V Sequencing

LifesaverI have been asked something like a gazillion times over the years if TMurgent offered contract App-V Sequencing. Almost every time I say no. Sure, we do a little bit of it each year, but mostly to make sure that the training we give “is real” to what customers need.

Today, this changes.

The reason that I would say no …

How do you know if App-V Apps need security updates?

Secunia CSI I was recently looking into alternatives to Windows Intune for ways to check if non-Microsoft application updates are needed, and stumbled into a company called Secunia. More importantly to their being an alternative to Intune, they developed a neat way to look at your App-V packages and tell you if those need updates too.

 

Secuna, based in Denmark,
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LaunchIt – a tool to control child programs

tools This is a story about a tool that shouldn’t need to exist, but has proved to be just so darned handy over the years. It was originally written almost 10 years ago, and I recently released an updated version to add more features. This free tool is called LaunchIT.

The most common problem that cause people to ask me …

App-V Package Branching and Issues

QuickBooks

I was working with an Application Service Provider client this week that was having issues with deploying QuickBooks Professional to their Citrix XenApp Servers using App-V. Quick Books is a bit of a pain to sequence, as you need to work around their licensing strategy which is tied to the CPU. We have had a recipe for years that works …