IE6 on Windows 7 App-V Sequence: CSS should “Open Source” the Recipe

The App-V community has long been a very giving group of professionals, going back to the old Softricity days.  We post on the forums and share recipes on how to sequence apps.  Some of us post on blogs and even produce instructional videos.  And while I don’t tweet, I certainly see signs of a lot of sharing happing via twitter.…

Two new OSD Policies for App-V

Microsoft has informed us of two policies that exist for the OSD that, up to now, had been undocumented.  It is unclear when these policies were added, but clearly they are supported in 4.6, and they may have been around for years.

These policies, now documented in The OSD Illustrated (an interactive online application that depicts and describes the entire …

Updates on Microsoft App-V

There is some news regarding App-V to share.
1. App-V 4.5 SP2 Upgrade Released

2. Microsoft Releasing “Pkg” format specification

3. TMurgent releases free tool to read “Pkg” files

4. TMurgent releases White Paper and Video on App-V 4.6 DSC and Transparency

These are more fully described in my other blog at BrianMadden.com

App-V Training Updates

TMurgent is coming back to Sweden! Details are being finalized, but TMurgent and Virisit IT are teaming up again for a class in Malmo (across the bridge from Copenhagen, Denmark) the week of May 31-June 4, 2010. This is our five day “Masters Level” Microsoft App-V 4.6 Concepts, Administration, and Sequencing class. This special class will feature not …

OSD Illustrated Updated

Peter gave me a “heads-up” on a couple of new optional things in the OSD that I had not been aware of. These are now added to the OSD Illustrated.  Both are optional to support odd cases for 64-bit operating systems.  Normally you don’t need these new parameters, even if you are running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, …

The Case of App-V 4.6 Duplicate Package GUIDs

When the App-V sequencer creates a GUID for the package that needs to be unique.  If somehow two packages get the same GUID, you will run into an error at deployment and need to re-sequence.

In older releases, people would run into this issue if they took a VM snapshot with the sequencer up and running.  Typically, they create the …

App-V 4.6: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and More

App-V 4.6 delivers big integration benefits with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and more

[Note: This is an updated version on 1/6/2011 of the original 2/22/2010 post based on recent information provided by Microsoft on Branch Cache.  See also this post: https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=306  ]

 While many of us have been waiting on the release of App-V 4.6 so that we …