AVDCG and AVSS Updates

image of toolWhile 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: Generate Package Documentation with AppV_Manage

App_Manage iconComing 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 …

At the App-V User Group

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 …

JreBlock: Script for hiding native Java

Photo: Patrick Mangan

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 …

A collection (so far) of #APPV 5 Client file visibility and blocking information

While I continue to try to get a better grip on connection groups, let’s continue documenting some of the side issues I have come across. Today, I’ll focus on a single package and either want to block visibility of a potential local installation or need to allow visibility of something local, like a license file.

In attempting to work solutions …

Microsoft blogs about AppV_Manage

Maybe there is something to AppV_Manage you’ll find useful. This free tool from the App-V 5 Tools section of the TMurgent website was recently covered as a great source for troubleshooting App-V in a Microsoft support blogpost on TechNet by Microsoft’s own John Behneman!

Check it out here: https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2014/01/30/how-to-troubleshoot-app-v-5-0-deploymentconfig-amp-userconfig-script-deployment-failures-using-appv-manage.aspx

App-V 5 and App Related Data

One of the big benefits of App-V has always been that applications that needed certain kinds of remediation to work today were automatically dealt with.

I’m talking about apps that were developed without complete support for multiple users (or multiple tenants), or for apps that assumed systems that have no security protection to write to common locations.

We just sequenced …