For years I have heard from customers and vendors in the packaging and application delivery businesses about how there isn’t a good place anymore to find information on applications. Long ago there was a good site (created by Bob Kelly) named AppDeploy but that was sold to a vendor and renamed to ITNinja and, well let’s just say it stopped …
Category: AppV5
Tripple Releases for awesome MSIX packaging
This post documents the April (2022) releases for MSIX. There are three parts:
- PSF v2022.04.27
- PsfTooling 5.2.0.0
- TMEditX 2.2.0.0
Each have their own section in this post below.
Update on App-V Sequencer Versions
Now that I’m back in the lab I’ve had a chance to test the latest ADK Sequencer for App-V. Here are the results:
- The best sequencer for packaging on Windows 10 is generally the Windows 10 2004 ADK. This addresses the “short name” issue in prior versions, however this sequencer may not be installed on OS versions prior to Win10
App-V Sequencer 21H1 Broken
Updates 2022/1/3: See Update on App-V Sequencer Versions – Confessions of a Guru (tmurgent.com)
UPDATED FYI,
It seems that in the latest version of the ADK (21H1) requires an OS build that is newer than 21H1. It isn’t very clear in the documentation, but, at least for the sequencer, that version of the ADK requires an insider’s build (currently) for …
Training in a pandemic, one year in and going strong.

Most of our business is in training the IT Staffs of large organizations to enable them to better prepare and deliver applications to their (mostly) internal users, specifically around the Microsoft App-V and MSIX technologies. We also do some consulting in the Citrix and End-User-Computing space, and sell some tools. And the bulk of our …
How to Automate Conversion from App-V to MSIX
Customers that use Microsoft App-V are certainly interested in the potential future of MSIX. While the compatibility levels for typical applications under MSIX is not yet acceptable overall and we will be continuing to leverage App-V for years (decades?) to come, I believe that it is important for them to begin the job of working with MSIX apps when we …
App-V Sequencer in ADK 20.04
Microsoft recently released the Windows ADK for Widows 10 version 20.04, and the version includes a new version of the App-V Sequencer. Here is what we know.
1) Although ADK components often work on OS versions other than the one it is released with, in this case you must use Windows 10 20.04 OS when using the ADK sequencer from …
Fix for 1809 and later App-V Sequencer Issues
I’ve noticed lately a few people complaining that they needed to go back to the Windows 10 ADK 1803 sequencer in order to get some applications to work. Recently, a student came to one of our App-V Training Classes and brought with him a reproducible application that demonstrated the problem. Based on what we learned in the class debugging it, and …