If you have a client (4.6 SP1 x86 Windows Desktop for sure, perhaps other installs and other installers) that is currently configured for a cache size policy of a maximum size and attempt to use the Client Management Console to modify the setting to instead use the Minimum Free Space option, when you hit apply you will get an error:…
The Client Book, now in paperback, also now in German
We released “The Client Book, About Microsoft App-V” some time back, and it has been a tremendous success. To date it has sold over two and a half what we ever expected to sell. Today, we released the paperback version of the book, which makes it available at a bit more afforadable price.
We are also pleased to finally release …
New and Updated (Free) Tools
In conjunction with my upcoming book and sessions at Briforum, I am releasing a number of new and updated tools involving Windows Performance analysis. These tools may be found in the Performance Tools section of the TMurgent website. These tools are generally free to download and use (the only restrictions are for ISVs that want to use them to …
App-V 5.0 (Beta1) Shortcut Editing Tricks
I have been having a problem with some of my sequences with the new App-V 5.0 Beta1 release; sometimes the client doesn’t get changes I make to the shortcut/FTA settings in the sequence editor.
I mentioned this to Patrick before I headed off to speak at the Citrix Synergy “Geek Speak Live” in San Francisco last week. He was supposed …
App-V Icon Error with SCCM
Hello, my name is Patrick Mangan, and I have been sequencing with App-V. This year TMurgent added a sequencing service where we take on applications that customers are having a really hard time sequencing. Recently while working on one application that had a proprietary licensing scheme to work around I ran into another, unexpected error that I needed to troubleshoot.…
AppV 5.0: The 10GB Package
…App-V 5.0 Beta: What happened to the OSDs?
Note:This is part of a series on App-V 5.0: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
A long staple of App-V has been the OSD file. This XML based file, along with the sfttray.exe command that runs it, has been the behind-the-scenes mechanism for how users start virtual applications. but you won’t find them in App-V …