Blogs from TMurgent
I’m not sure why I never thought of this before. All of the pieces were right there in front of me for a while, but it didn’t click until today.
Today I created my first Virtual Device Driver with App-V!!!!
OK. Time for the fine print:
The driver isn’t really virtualized, I just make it only exist when it needs …
A treat for you today. You see, today is my day to find out if I am re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP. You get a little nervous waiting for Redmond to wake up and send the email each time. So with a surprise today I find that I am no longer an App-V MVP. Now I’m a “Windows IT Pro” …
I am pleased to announce version 5 of the free AppV_Manage tool, and in particular the new run-time debugging capabilities. You can find the tool downloader at this link here.
When dealing with a difficult application, you often need to use several tools to try to find out what is wrong. In the past, I had integrated a number …
I build a LOT of App-V Sequencer and Client VMs over the course of a year. Not only do I test each release, but hotfixes and a bunch of private builds that I get, and then I also need to handle changes to my own tools (which need testing before release). Plus I want to reuse the technique to build …
While everyone knows about the AppV_Manage tool, used for testing new App-V Packages, many either do not know or have forgotten about two of the other tools.
In fact, unless you were already using them you probably didn’t notice the updates last September. I recently noticed that I totally forgot to blog and tweet about the changes. Well even newer …
Coming Soon! In version 4.0 of AppV_Manage, we will have an optional (paid for) feature to generate package documentation in Microsoft Word format. This work is an outgrowth of the package analyzer function. In version 4 I have enhanced the analysis, going beyond reporting on extensions reported by App-V but also analyzing the package contents to see some of what …
This month I had a great opportunity to meet with the folks from all over Europe at the 2015 European App-V User Group Meeting held near Amsterdam in the Netherlands on March 20th. Sold out, as always, the room was crammed to the 100 maximum capacity. While there, I gave a presentation that was a deep-dive on the numerous ways …
Originally by: Patrick Mangan
Updated by: Tim Mangan for version 3.0
JreBlock: is a simple PowerShell script to help when you need to sequence a Java JRE inside of an App-V virtual environment and want to block visibility to other Java versions that might be natively installed at the client.
The typical technique to sequencing Java JREs is to actively …