I’m not at MMS nor build this week. Instead I find myself in Switzerland training enterprises on how to best prepare and deploy applications using a combination of Microsoft App-V and MSIX technologies as they exist today. Yet I find myself inundated with requests for comments by enterprise customers concerned over a series of tweets from attendees at the MMS …
MSIX and Certificates – Part 1 for Developers
Just a quick note to point out the article I wrote for my friends at Advanced Installer regarding Certificates and MSIX. It is Part 1 of a two-part series.
Here is a link to Part 1, which is for Developers. There will be a Part 2 for IT Pros repackaging into MSIX.…
Short-Names and Recapture
When we capture installer activity for the purpose of creating a package to deploy on another device, the possibility of causing new issues exist. We rely on the tools that we use for the capture/packaging, the runtime environments we use on the target, and the “smarts” of the person doing the packaging to avoid these issues.
Two potential issues that …
Long Paths and Recapture
When we capture installer activity for the purpose of creating a package to deploy on another device, the possibility of causing new issues exist. We rely on the tools that we use for the capture/packaging, the runtime environments we use on the target, and the “smarts” of the person doing the packaging to avoid these issues.
Two potential issues that …
What’s new in the PSF (Part 2 – Feb 28, 2019)
I didn’t expect to write this article so soon! More on that later, let’s get to the juicy stuff.
The Package Support Framework, or PSF, is an open source project hosted by Microsoft up on GitHub. The PSF is useful when building MSIX packages for older Win32 and .Net based applications. It allows you to build in Detours based …
What’s new in the MSIX PSF: Feb 24, 2019
Those paying attention might know that I started a project last summer to contribute to the MSIX Package Support Framework, an open source project that Microsoft hosts up on GitHub.
I spent a month writing code to improve the PSF, and then started the long process of getting it pulled into the master source. It, uh, took a little longer …
Understanding PSFLaunch for MSIX
Running Win32/WPF applications in a container like MSIX is different than when running installed in the traditional way. While there are benefits, the container also can cause issues with applications when you simply repackage them without making changes to the application source.
In The MSIX Report Card for 1809 , I took a look at the results of such vanilla …
Fixing PowerShell ExecutionPolicy and GPO
PowerShell has an annoying, to me, idea about security. Yeah, yeah, we all love security, blah blah blah. But…
But I make heavy use of my own PowerShell scripting for use in my Lab.
I even wrote my own PowerShell module (see PassiveInstall ) to simplify much of the scripting I do around automating application installs and configuration for packaging. …