I Was a Cloud Service Provider, and Didn’t Know It!

I realized this summer that I was a player in The Cloud really early on. Yeah, me. The one who spent the last two years calling it “Clown Computing” rather than “Cloud Computing”. Yes, I will now fully admit that I was once a cloud junkie.
I will explain this in this post.
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PkgView 1.6 Released

toolsToday I released an updated version of the free PkgView tool. PkgView is used to view the file and registry changes that a user makes when running virtual applications with Microsoft App-V. These changes are stored in files with a “.pkg” extension associated with the user and the application.

These pkg files have traditionally been a bit of a black …

LaunchIt – a tool to control child programs

tools This is a story about a tool that shouldn’t need to exist, but has proved to be just so darned handy over the years. It was originally written almost 10 years ago, and I recently released an updated version to add more features. This free tool is called LaunchIT.

The most common problem that cause people to ask me …

App-V Package Branching and Issues

QuickBooks

I was working with an Application Service Provider client this week that was having issues with deploying QuickBooks Professional to their Citrix XenApp Servers using App-V. Quick Books is a bit of a pain to sequence, as you need to work around their licensing strategy which is tied to the CPU. We have had a recipe for years that works …

Day 1 with Windows 8 Dev build and App-V Client

CATEGORY: Way unsupported by anyone!

Date: September 18, 2011

EDIT: See comments for resolution to getting App-V to work.

While I installed the Windows 8 Developers Pre-release build last week as soon as I could, I was rather tied up all week in that I was running my App-V training class, so I didn’t have time to do much more …

SCCM 2007 R3 and AppV 4.6 [SP1]: Client Compatibilities

sccmYou’d think it would be easier than this; that SCCM could at least keep it’s own clients up to date. No. So best I document this all in one place in case someone else runs into it.

Issue: Upgrade SCCCM 2007 to R3, and Create a package to install the App-V 4.6 (with or without SP1) client and get it …

Tip: To clean up a single bad “remembered” form data in Internet Explorer

Thanks to Ryan Walters, wherever you are for this!

I love the Internet Explorer feature to remember entries in form data. Well, at least I love it again, thanks to this tip. For some time I hated it every time I hit certain websites. Why? Because one time I mistyped an entry.

Usually this happens because my right hand hitting …

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