Recording of Tim on BrianMadden Live show

I had the honor of being the featured guest on the “BrianMadden Live” podcast earlier this week. The recording can be found at this link: here.

I also posted a couple of articles on Brian’s site the last month that are worth mentioning. One of them is my “What you need to know about App-V 5” article which has …

What the #&$&? is the OSD filename?

Once upon a time in a land far, far, away, when an APPV virtual package landed on a client machine, the OSD file was cached in a special folder using the filename it was packaged with. This made it easy to debug a new package at the client by editing the local copy.

Then one day that changed. When the …

App-V 5.0: Evolving the “Integrated Experience” for Virtual Applications


I ran the effort to build the original version of App-V at Softricity, the company that Microsoft acquired the product from, almost a dozen years ago, and the 5.0 Beta release represents the most dramatic set of changes to the product since. Much has changed in computer technology of that period, and Microsoft very clearly has looked at what is …

White Paper: Welcome To The Dataverse!

Today I am publishing a new “White Paper” titled Welcome To The Dataverse.

This is an opinion piece, reflecting my latest thoughts on “The Data Problem” will be presented at Briforum Chicago tomorrow. It has been five long years since I presented “The Data Problem” at Briforum Darmstadt Germany and a lot has changed. But a lot has also …

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New Book: Windows System Performance Through Caching

I am happy to announce the availability of my new book.


image of The Client Book

The caching of code and data is a common technique used throughout the Windows Operating System in order to improve system and application performance. While System Performance is a difficult subject, this work represents a digestable look at performance by isolating the top fifteen or so ways that caching …