AppV_Manage & TMEdit Releases

Today we have a couple of releases for Microsoft App-V tooling.  With the cancellation of the End-Of-Life for the App-V Sequencer and Client, we are updating our tooling to catch up on a few things.

Release 5.18 of AppV_Manage

AppV_Manage is our free community tool, typically used by someone packaging applications into App-V and wants a quick way to test …

TMEditX 5.3 Release

TMEditX is the licensed and so much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages; better than PsfTooling since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package.  [Download_page]

  • Feature: Improved support for signing using DigiCert KeyLocker cloud service by locating the KeyLocker tools from the registry.
  • Feature: Added support for custom signing

TMEdit 2.0 Released. Yes, for App-V

TMEdit (not TMEditX) is our App-V package editor tool, used to improve packages for Microsoft App-V. It’s been a while since we had a release and I had been sitting on a few fixes requested by customers. But rather than just some bug-fixes, we have something new here.

First, TMEdit 2.0 is being released as an MSIX package. Why? …

Why we think MSIX is now ready

Last week, at AppManagEvent in The Netherlands, we declared that (finally) MSIX is ready to be the first choice for enterprises to choose when repackaging applications for delivery to Windows.

It has been a long road for MSIX. When introduced 6 years ago, we said two things about MSIX:

  • It would become the future of applications, replacing App-V and

TMEditX 5.1 Release

TMEditX is the licensed and so much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages; better than PsfTooling since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package.  [Download_page]

Features and Fixes

TMEditX:

  • Feature
  • The new TMEditX 5.0 Mega-release

    TMEditX Editor is the licensed and much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages, better than PsfTooling since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package.  [Download_page]

    TMEditX 5.0 has been released!

    This is a big release, significantly improving your ability to get more apps working under MSIX.  Preliminary app-compatibility testing

    MSIX Shortcuts Revised

    These last couple of weeks I have been busy researching into problems some customers were having with MSIX packages with shortcuts. This post will bring you up to date on some new information on how MSIX works, and details on how TMEditX is changing handling these issues starting in version 4.6.

    History of the source of the problems

    Traditionally applications …

    Patch to the PSF, PsfTooling, and TMEditX for Windows 10

    Last week I posted on social media about an issue we ran into in our current training class.  The issue was preventing apps that included the PSF from working on certain Windows 10 operating systems.

    The problem has been identified and fixed, resulting in a slew of releases:

    • PSF version v2024.06.07 of the TimMangan fork of the Package Support Framework.