Blogs from TMurgent
This is a story about a native windows application installer that needed MSIX to help it work right. And a story about how the App-V package of that app needed MSIX to help it work right. And yes, also a story about how the MSIX package of that app works just right.
Let’s learn about the Shell extension context menu …
TMEditX is the licensed and more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package. [Download_page]
Version 3.3 of TMEditX is now released. It rolls up a number of new features, improvements, and bug-fixes for the end of the spring season. The tool consists of …
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 — …
Most of our business is in training the IT Staffs of large organizations to enable them to better prepare and deliver applications to their (mostly) internal users, specifically around the Microsoft App-V and MSIX technologies. We also do some consulting in the Citrix and End-User-Computing space, and sell some tools. And the bulk of our …
Yesterday I wrote a post (https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=2921 ) because of concerns regarding App-V and MSIX over comments made by a Microsoft employee at MMS. At the time I said “don’t panic”, and was working behind the scenes to see if we could get a public clarification over what I knew couldn’t be true.
Last night (for me here in Europe; …
It haunts me still! In every release of App-V since 4.0 there has been a new and unique way to generate apps with duplicate GUIDS. I have blogged about this both here and here. Granted, each time it was a case of wanting to be efficient with MY time and it was solved by careful setup of my snapshots. …
If you have sequenced on App-V 5, you probably have wondered what to use for the “Primary Virtual Directory” (PVAD).
Me too. But in this blog post I will discuss what I know and what I do (currently).
Under the older versions of App-V, we called this the asset root folder, and all sorts of names, but in …
There is nothing like a good set of tools ready when you have a repair project to do. But too many tools are distracting.
Working with App-V 5 through all of the pre-releases and now the final release for some time, I have settled on my three favorite tools. And it is time to let you in on the secret.…