Virtual App Runtime Debugging with Updated AppV_Manage 5

The KahunaI am pleased to announce version 5 of the free AppV_Manage tool, and in particular the new run-time debugging capabilities.  You can find the tool downloader  at this link here.

When dealing with a difficult application, you often need to use several tools to try to find out what is wrong.  In the past, I had integrated a number …

Sequencing AutoCAD 2015 Update

Photo about changeLast June, I posted a way to sequence AutoCAD 2015 using App-V 5 on a  Blog post here. This was done using the then latest-and-greatest version of App-V, 5.0 SP2 with Hotfix 4.  We had been having trouble with many AutoCAD versions since the 2014 versions started appearing with some sort of incompatibility, and Hotfix 4 overcame whatever that …

AVDCG and AVSS Updates

image of toolWhile everyone knows about the AppV_Manage tool, used for testing new App-V Packages, many either do not know or have forgotten about two of the other tools.

In fact, unless you were already using them you probably didn’t notice the updates last September.  I recently noticed that I totally forgot to blog and tweet about the changes.  Well even newer …

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

Photo: Patrick Mangan

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 …

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

image attribution Stuart MilesThis 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