{"id":1104,"date":"2012-09-27T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T15:40:33","slug":"what-the-is-the-osd-filename","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"What the #&#038;$&#038;? is the OSD filename?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time in a land far, far, away, when an APPV virtual package landed on a client machine, the OSD file was cached in a special folder using the filename it was packaged with.  This made it easy to debug a new package at the client by editing the local copy.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day that changed.  When the package is applied to the client today, a different filename for the cached copy of the OSD is generated on the fly.  This will be a GUID, and it isn&#8217;t the convenient OSD GUID that is already inside the file.  No, no.  It is a new unique GUID so that it is different on every single client machine (at least in theory).<\/p>\n<p>So how do I figure out which GUID filename I want to edit?<\/p>\n<p>The date\/time stamp is usually a good starting point, since it probably is the last package added.  But with a package containing 20 or more OSD files, opening up each one to find the right one was tedious.  Then I noticed that I already had the info staring me in the face.<\/p>\n<p>My AppV_Manage tool (part of the free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/AppV_DeployNPublishApp\/Default.aspx\">AppV_DeployNPublish<\/a> tools) has the mapping right there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FindOSD.png\" Width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>No matter how you deploy the packages (RTSP, SCCM, etc), you can still install just the Manage tool to get a more decent client management console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time in a land far, far, away, when an APPV virtual package landed on a client machine, the OSD file was cached in a special folder using the filename it was packaged with. This made it easy to debug a new package at the client by editing the local copy. Then one&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What the #&#038;$&#038;? is the OSD filename?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,48],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-appv4","category-sequencing","tag-app-v","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}