Scripting is completely different in App-V 5 versus 4.*. Back in December, I wrote this post describing App-V 5 Scripting support to supplement and hopefully clarify the limited information provided by Microsoft. It will take more time than I have for a couple weeks to be able to write down what I learned this week into a comprehensible document, but …
The Challenge of Developing for Enterprise and Cloud
Quick thought of the day.
When developing software for the enterprise, the incentives exist to load up with lots of features. The enterprise procurement process emphasizes getting more features for similar money, leading the vendors to add more and more features.
The folks buying to put stuff in the cloud are not the same. They value simplicity. They value automation. …
Slide Deck from my Geek Speak Presentation at Citrix Synergy
As promised, here is Slide Deck from my presentation at Citrix Synergy 2013.
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See me at Geek Speak @Citrix Synergy Anaheim about App-V and Xen Everything
Be sure to schedule your Citrix Synergy Show to see me on stage a Geek Speak Live early on Friday morning!
Can you believe it? I will be on stage at 8:45AM on Friday May 24th at Geek Speak Live at session SYN510 (room 210B). Not some Citrix person droning on about the virtues of the next great thing they …
App_Remediation: New Tool for App-V 5 apps in Roaming Environs
App_Remediation is a new free tool I am releasing to the public today.
App_Remediation is a console application designed to be used with App-V 5 (and above) to save and restore application related data (ARD) between locations that normally do not roam and those that do.
App-V now isolates ARD changes and redirects the saved file changes to locations that …
The return of the Duplicate Package ID in App-V 5
It haunts me still! In every release of App-V since 4.0 there has been a new and unique way to generate apps with duplicate GUIDS. I have blogged about this both here and here. Granted, each time it was a case of wanting to be efficient with MY time and it was solved by careful setup of my snapshots. …
What I Do: App-V 5 and the “Primary Virtual Application Directory”
If you have sequenced on App-V 5, you probably have wondered what to use for the “Primary Virtual Directory” (PVAD).
Me too. But in this blog post I will discuss what I know and what I do (currently).
Under the older versions of App-V, we called this the asset root folder, and all sorts of names, but in …
About my Toolbelt and “The Secret App-V 5 Client Debug Logs”
There is nothing like a good set of tools ready when you have a repair project to do. But too many tools are distracting.
Working with App-V 5 through all of the pre-releases and now the final release for some time, I have settled on my three favorite tools. And it is time to let you in on the secret.…