I have been doing Application Virtualization for a long time – a dozen years now. For a long time AppVirt was more of a niche than it is today. Originally it was used with Citrix and Terminal Servers, but even when desktop and laptop support was added it was used by a relatively small number of leading edge companies. That …
Category: Sequencing
App-V 5.0 (Beta1) Shortcut Editing Tricks
I have been having a problem with some of my sequences with the new App-V 5.0 Beta1 release; sometimes the client doesn’t get changes I make to the shortcut/FTA settings in the sequence editor.
I mentioned this to Patrick before I headed off to speak at the Citrix Synergy “Geek Speak Live” in San Francisco last week. He was supposed …
App-V Icon Error with SCCM
Hello, my name is Patrick Mangan, and I have been sequencing with App-V. This year TMurgent added a sequencing service where we take on applications that customers are having a really hard time sequencing. Recently while working on one application that had a proprietary licensing scheme to work around I ran into another, unexpected error that I needed to troubleshoot.…
AppV 5.0: The 10GB Package
…App-V 5.0 Beta: What happened to the OSDs?
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
A long staple of App-V has been the OSD file. This XML based file, along with the sfttray.exe command that runs it, has been the behind-the-scenes mechanism for how users start virtual applications. but you won’t find them in App-V …
Breaking into the new APP-V 5.0 APPV format
App-V 5.0 Beta: The End of CSIDLs
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Plowing my way through the new Sequencer. Looking at the options page of the sequencer, the ParseItems look a little different.
One of the most important jobs of the sequencer is to make the package Machine, OS, and User neutral. …
Beta for App-V 5.0
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
In a blog post today, Microsoft’s Karri Alexion-Tiernan announced the Beta for App-V 5.0, plus an additional MDOP add-on called UE-V.
App-V 5.0 is the most dramatic change to App-V in a really long time, possibly the biggest since …