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Microsoft Application Virtualization
Originally by: Patrick Mangan
Updated by: Tim Mangan for version 3.0
JreBlock: is a simple PowerShell script to help when you need to sequence a Java JRE inside of an App-V virtual environment and want to block visibility to other Java versions that might be natively installed at the client.
The typical technique to sequencing Java JREs is to actively …
Just in case this bites someone else…
An upgrade of App-V Server to 5.0 SP3 includes a replacement Management Console. As this is Silverlight based, this means that the website delivers a Silverlight XAP file to your browser. Where it remains in your browser cache.
Upgrade of the server does not always mean that the browser cache gets flushed. So …
This week Microsoft released the anticipated App-V 5.0 SP3, along with an updated UE-V 2.1, as part of the MDOP fall release. We normally expect the MDOP release around November 1st, so this drop is a little later than usual for some reason. But it is well worth the wait.
While Microsoft App-V is generally regarded as the …
Tim Mangan
TMurgent Technologies, LLP
September 22, 2014
Related Product: App-V 5.0 SP2 HF5 and prior
When we created the original application virtualization product, SoftGrid, streaming was a very important part of the implementation. Over the years, the streaming aspect has become less important to implementations, while remaining important to the decision makers that …
One of the big benefits of App-V has always been that applications that needed certain kinds of remediation to work today were automatically dealt with.
I’m talking about apps that were developed without complete support for multiple users (or multiple tenants), or for apps that assumed systems that have no security protection to write to common locations.
We just sequenced …
Microsoft App-V seems incredibly hot right now, with everyone getting ready to jump on App-V 5 when SP2 comes out. There is way more activity in this space than I have ever seen!
I have been running training classes on App-V for over six years now. Back when Microsoft bought Softricity, I saw an interest spike. But it was …
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Last week, I wrote a blog post On App-V 5 Performance which received a lot of attention. From the response, it is pretty clear that my message was not understood. I am a geek, so it is not that unusual. So let’s try to fix that here. Here is an English translation of my thoughts: |
The message that I attempted …
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You may have heard that I am working on a book.
It started as a White Paper to help explain how the different caching options in App-V 5 work, to help customers with their questions on how to deploy. But the scope became more book-like, so …