Blogs from TMurgent
Microsoft Application Virtualization
Today we have a couple of releases for Microsoft App-V tooling. With the cancellation of the End-Of-Life for the App-V Sequencer and Client, we are updating our tooling to catch up on a few things.
AppV_Manage is our free community tool, typically used by someone packaging applications into App-V and wants a quick way to test …
Microsoft announced a change of plans for the End-Of-Life for App-V and inclusion into AppAttach for AVD at a conference in Hamburg Germany. In this post I’ll outline what was said and offer my ideas on what it might mean for you.
At the MAD 2024 Conference in Hamburg Germany last week, Microsoft’s Jim Moyle and Sebastian …
TMEdit (not T
MEditX) is our App-V package editor tool, used to improve packages for Microsoft App-V. It’s been a while since we had a release and I had been sitting on a few fixes requested by customers. But rather than just some bug-fixes, we have something new here.
First, TMEdit 2.0 is being released as an MSIX package. Why? …
An open source tool to automate conversion of your App-V Packages to MSIX.
It seems I forgot to add a blog post about this tool when I released it last fall. So here it is to make it more visible.
AppV2MSIX is a powershell script that will automate the conversion of a folder full of App-V packages to MSIX. If …
Last fall, Microsoft updated the end-of-life statements for Microsoft App-V with a date of April 2026. You can see the current statement at this link: MDOP support extended – Microsoft Lifecycle | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft has never, to my knowledge, adequately explained why App-V has to go away. However, nothing lasts forever, and it has been a good run — …
TMEdit is the licensed and more capable tool for fixing up App-V packages (the application virtualization system that actually works) since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft Sequencer Tool to create the final package. TMEdit Download (tmurgent.com)
The TMEdit tool analyzes and fixes App-V packages. This release contains the following changes:
For years I have heard from customers and vendors in the packaging and application delivery businesses about how there isn’t a good place anymore to find information on applications. Long ago there was a good site (created by Bob Kelly) named AppDeploy but that was sold to a vendor and renamed to ITNinja and, well let’s just say it stopped …
Customers that use Microsoft App-V are certainly interested in the potential future of MSIX. While the compatibility levels for typical applications under MSIX is not yet acceptable overall and we will be continuing to leverage App-V for years (decades?) to come, I believe that it is important for them to begin the job of working with MSIX apps when we …