PaperShare

I posted a new White Paper on a new site called PaperShare today. The site was created by two people I know quite well, David Greschler (one of the Softricity Founders and until recently at Microsoft) and Doug Brown (known for his dabcc.com website).

PaperShare is only in Beta right now, but I am excited at how they are combining …

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XenApp Publishing Extensions 3.0 for XenApp 6

A year ago I released XenApp Publishing Extensions 2.0 for use with XenApp 4.5 and 5.0. This free GUI based tool simplifies App-V virtualized application publishing for XenApp. The tool used the traditional mfcom interface for working with XenApp, and did not work with XenApp 6.

Today, I am releasing version 3.0 for use with XenApp 6. While the front …

App-V & Installing to the (Q:\) Asset Folder or Not: a 4.6 Sp1 Bug Uncovered

App-V: Installing to the (Q:\) Asset Folder or Not

NOTE: The issue with the 4.6 SP1 sequencer that is identified in this article appears to have been fixed when sequencing using the 4.6 SP1 HF3 sequencer.

The “Best Practices” for sequencing applications with App-V, and SoftGrid before it, have always included installing the application to the “asset folder” (sometimes referred …

White Paper: Perceived Performance Reloaded

Today I posted a new whitepaper associated with the Perceived Performance presentation I made at BriForum London yesterday.  We had a great session with a diverse eupoean crowd in attendance.I wish I had another name for this than a “white paper”, because most of what we see in white papers today are just blatant product pitches with a technical description. 

BriForum Preview Video

Again this year I will be speaking again at Briforum, but this time there are two of them. The first will be in London, England on May 10-11th, and the second in Chicago here in the US July 18-20th. We decided to have some fun this year and make a video teaser for my session. So here it is!…

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AppV_DeployNPublish 2.0.1 for App-V 4.6 SP1

When Microsoft release App-V 4.6 Sp1, which was all about the new sequencer, they also quietly put out an updated client.  You don’t need the updated client to use SP1 sequenced packages, but it is an option.  Supposedly the client was mostly about rolling up hotfixes, but we know that there must be changes to support the upcoming SCCM 2012 …