Blogs from TMurgent
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You may have heard that I am working on a book.
It started as a White Paper to help explain how the different caching options in App-V 5 work, to help customers with their questions on how to deploy. But the scope became more book-like, so …
Back when we created SoftGrid, the OS only supported one “owner” application for a given file type association. And we learned to live with this, but really didn’t like it all that much. Now we don’t have to.
For natively installed applications, somewhere along the way Microsoft added a new interface for developers (or more specifically …
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OK. So XenDesktop 7, the new combined version of XenDesktop and XenApp is now released.
And we can see that Citrix has not integrated their own application virtualization solutions (Citrix Streaming) into the Citrix Studio console. Instead, they have chosen to with integrate Microsoft App-V 5. |
And not just into the Management console, but also in the new AppDNA, which …
Scripting is completely different in App-V 5 versus 4.*. Back in December, I wrote this post describing App-V 5 Scripting support to supplement and hopefully clarify the limited information provided by Microsoft. It will take more time than I have for a couple weeks to be able to write down what I learned this week into a comprehensible document, but …
As promised, here is Slide Deck from my presentation at Citrix Synergy 2013.
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App_Remediation is a new free tool I am releasing to the public today.
App_Remediation is a console application designed to be used with App-V 5 (and above) to save and restore application related data (ARD) between locations that normally do not roam and those that do.
App-V now isolates ARD changes and redirects the saved file changes to locations that …
It haunts me still! In every release of App-V since 4.0 there has been a new and unique way to generate apps with duplicate GUIDS. I have blogged about this both here and here. Granted, each time it was a case of wanting to be efficient with MY time and it was solved by careful setup of my snapshots. …
If you have sequenced on App-V 5, you probably have wondered what to use for the “Primary Virtual Directory” (PVAD).
Me too. But in this blog post I will discuss what I know and what I do (currently).
Under the older versions of App-V, we called this the asset root folder, and all sorts of names, but in …