Blogs from TMurgent
Microsoft Application Virtualization
With 2012 here and vacations behind us it is time to get serious about some App-V training. So what are our plans for training in the next quarter?
| February 6th-10th Irvine, California, USA | |
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We are working with a new partner, Agile360, to finally bring our Masters Level App-V Training class to California. We always get a lot of requests for |
I was recently looking into alternatives to Windows Intune for ways to check if non-Microsoft application updates are needed, and stumbled into a company called Secunia. More importantly to their being an alternative to Intune, they developed a neat way to look at your App-V packages and tell you if those need updates too.
Today I released an updated version of the free PkgView tool. PkgView is used to view the file and registry changes that a user makes when running virtual applications with Microsoft App-V. These changes are stored in files with a “.pkg” extension associated with the user and the application.
These pkg files have traditionally been a bit of a black …
This is a story about a tool that shouldn’t need to exist, but has proved to be just so darned handy over the years. It was originally written almost 10 years ago, and I recently released an updated version to add more features. This free tool is called LaunchIT.
The most common problem that cause people to ask me …
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 …
The latest installment in this video series is now out. A look at App-V 4.6 SP1 and solving a Windows 7 Jumplist issue with App-V and the application Skype.
Runs 32 minutes.…
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 …
You’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 …
