Coming Soon! In version 4.0 of AppV_Manage, we will have an optional (paid for) feature to generate package documentation in Microsoft Word format. This work is an outgrowth of the package analyzer function. In version 4 I have enhanced the analysis, going beyond reporting on extensions reported by App-V but also analyzing the package contents to see some of what …
At the App-V User Group
This month I had a great opportunity to meet with the folks from all over Europe at the 2015 European App-V User Group Meeting held near Amsterdam in the Netherlands on March 20th. Sold out, as always, the room was crammed to the 100 maximum capacity. While there, I gave a presentation that was a deep-dive on the numerous ways …
App-V Internet Explorer Add-on Conflict: Watch those Registry Keys
Students run into this problem in our App-V training classes every time.
The Problem
In one of the labs we deal with creating and deploying a handful of browser plugins in a connection group. And everyone runs into an issue of some of them seemingly not working. The lab specifies a set of plug-ins to use, but I usually encourage …
JreBlock: Script for hiding native Java
Originally by: Patrick Mangan
Updated by: Tim Mangan for version 3.0
JreBlock: is a simple PowerShell script to help when you need to sequence a Java JRE inside of an App-V virtual environment and want to block visibility to other Java versions that might be natively installed at the client.
The typical technique to sequencing Java JREs is to actively …
Why our App-V Training Classes are Finally Upgraded to “Masters” Level
When App-V 5 was released two years ago, I blogged about how we were renaming our training classes as “Experts” level, rather than the Masters Level designation that we used for the App-V 4.6 classes.
The idea was that while I had been working with pre-releases for almost a year, I knew that we didn’t know enough about the …
App-V 5.0 Sp3 Upgrade: Clear Browser Cache to clear issue on Server MC upgrade
Just in case this bites someone else…
An upgrade of App-V Server to 5.0 SP3 includes a replacement Management Console. As this is Silverlight based, this means that the website delivers a Silverlight XAP file to your browser. Where it remains in your browser cache.
Upgrade of the server does not always mean that the browser cache gets flushed. So …
Tim on App-V 5.0 SP3
This week Microsoft released the anticipated App-V 5.0 SP3, along with an updated UE-V 2.1, as part of the MDOP fall release. We normally expect the MDOP release around November 1st, so this drop is a little later than usual for some reason. But it is well worth the wait.
While Microsoft App-V is generally regarded as the …
App-V and .Net Performance
NOTE: This post contains some great information, but has been updated in this post.
This post is about the performance impacts of combining Microsoft App-V 5 sequenced virtual applications with applications that use Microsoft .Net. I wish this story ended with good news, or at least reasonable actions that you could take to improve performance, but it isn’t so. Instead …