Blogs from TMurgent
File this one under “Things to consider when your app doesn’t work”.
What the customer wanted:
I was working with a large customer that is in the Health Care business. They had an application, well maybe we should call it an integrated suite of applications, that is used to tune hearing aids. One major app and a ton …
Call it the case of the missing shortcut. Although I discovered the issue because of App-V, the culprit really turns out to be the OS itself.
As some of you know I am busy working on a new App-V tool. As part of the testing, I built a number of test applications (or pulled out oldies-but-goodies that I already had) …
Two days ago about I wrote about CReg/Vreg because I anticipated the fix coming in March’s OS rollup. So surprise! The following day we get fixes a month early.
The totality of information coming from Microsoft about the changes are included in the KB article for the February rollup for Windows 10 1709: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4074588/windows-10-update-kb4074588. …
If you are using App-V and moving to Windows 10 1703 or 1709 , you need to be aware of an issue, temporary workaround, and “permanent fix” that we are waiting for.
The short of it is that last summer Microsoft decided to change the implementation of the App-V virtual registry to use containers. We don’t know a lot about …
A PowerShell Automation Framework for Application Packaging with Passive/Silent Installations.
Today I am releasing another free tool for the community, called PassiveInstall, plus a free online training course for it (see bottom of this article for a link to the training). A PowerShell module intended for use by anyone wanting to create customized automated installations of vendor applications …
While I will admit that I thought about this possibility, I never would have written about it unless I found a customer actually doing this.
I met them in a recent training class, and here is their story.
For most companies, delivering applications as App-V virtual apps is one of many ways that they deliver applications. They might also use …
My general recipe for sequencing AutoCAD 2015 is found in this post from a couple of years ago: https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=2268
Today, Patrick Mangan reminded me that he had to modify that recipe to handle AutoCAD 2016 and 2017.
In the original recipe, we handle the problem of the runtime AutoCAD writing a dll file outside of the virtual environment to a …
Sebasitan, the German Microsoft Escalation Engineer we often get new news from about App-V, recently blogged about the dates for the lifecycles for App-V 5.1. Before people get upset, let’s make sure you understand what this means.
On the date when a product version, or service pack, is released, it sets the clock ticking for end of free mainstream support …