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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How to improve your Hyper-V lab performance


While looking into Windows IO/Mem performance on a rainy day (i.e. “no golf”), I noticed something that I do in my Hyper-V lab setup that kills performance.

I build new VMs all of the time. Usually they are for a simple test I build with MDT and I throw away the VM after a couple of weeks. I do it …