The Compatibility Gladiator
Application Compatibility Planning, Remediation, Mitigation, Virtualization, and Modernization
On Optimizing Large Deployments of Windows Analytics
One of the more crucial pillars to ongoing success with managing initial Windows 10 deployments, as...
Date: 07/07/2018
On the Art of Predicting Compatibility Regression when Assessing Risk
In my last blog post:...
Date: 03/09/2018
Determining an Application's Impact when Assessing Risk
In my most recent blog...
Date: 02/20/2018
Leverage a Risk-Based Approach to Application Compatibility Testing
Once upon a time, application compatibility projects usually followed these basic tenets: 1.)...
Date: 02/14/2018
How Detailed is Your Enterprise Application Catalog?
Over the past several years, I have been involved in many application projects. Whether the project...
Date: 02/13/2018
Recent App-V Case Studies
Internally, I was recently asked if I had any examples of recent App-V Case Studies that other...
Date: 05/24/2017
A New MED-V Blog Post . . . Yes, for Real
For most individuals in my profession, any plans that were originally made for today were upended by...
Date: 05/16/2017
Resolving the App-V 4 - SQL Server 2008 R2 Supportability Conundrum
Over the past 6 months, I’ve had quite few customers coming to me with concerns regarding what they...
Date: 04/05/2017
Application Virtualization and Compatibility at Microsoft Ignite 2016!
Greetings all! If you are headed to Atlanta for #MSIgnite this year, I wanted to give you a heads up...
Date: 09/26/2016
On Debugging Virtual Applications: Part 1: Overview (or Let’s Start at the Beginning)
For many application packagers, virtual application sequencers, and general IT pros, the concept of...
Date: 02/19/2016
App-V: On Current Recommended Practices and how they Evolve . . . (a.k.a. - about that PVAD)
This morning, I was on a joint webinar with Flexera...
Date: 02/16/2016
App-V: Current Recommended Practices for using App-V with Azure RemoteApp
In recent blogs posts, I’ve been discussing the topics of how to leverage App-V for software...
Date: 02/12/2016
App-V: On Targeting Azure RemoteApp Images with the App-V Management & Publishing Server
There are two types of Collections with Azure RemoteApp: A Cloud Collection and a Hybrid Collection....
Date: 02/10/2016
App-V: More on App-V with Azure RemoteApp
Last April, we gave a little bit of information on the limited use of App-V applications with Azure...
Date: 02/09/2016
Anatomy of an Outlier Bug: The Issue of the Failed App-V Report Upload
When software malfunctions, product support teams attempt to narrow the issue down to user error,...
Date: 01/24/2016
Less Than 1 Week Until the End of Support for Legacy versions of Internet Explorer (except Windows Vista and Server 2008)
Here we are! It is almost time. Over 16 months ago, Microsoft announced that support for legacy...
Date: 01/06/2016
For my Friends and Family: You have no excuse not to secure your Microsoft Accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication
I am always begging my close friends and family, many who are not all that technical, to follow...
Date: 11/27/2015
Farewell to Zune
As I write this, within a few hours, the Zune Service is expected to end per earlier announcements....
Date: 11/14/2015
App-V 5.x Client Publishing Server Address
Hi all, I've had the pleasure of working with the Gladiator for the past 5 years and now I have...
Date: 10/22/2015
Planning for Windows iSCSI SAN boot on Private Cloud Bare Metal Hosts
Data Center Modernization has definitely reached critical mass. The message that came from TechEd...
Date: 06/12/2015
On the Bloggers, Analysts, and the Shareholders.
Over the past 20 years, I have had many different roles in IT. I’ve been a helpdesk jockey,...
Date: 06/12/2015
App-V: On App-V Applications Hosted in Azure RemoteApp
With the release of Azure RemoteApp, Enterprise customers can now move their non-persistent RDS...
Date: 04/28/2015
App-V 5: On Java Virtualization Strategies
Throughout the past 15 years, from its origins in Softricity, one of App-V’s primary use cases has...
Date: 04/26/2015
On App-V with Azure: Streaming Applications from the Cloud
In App-V in general, the Content Store (also referred to as the package source or streaming source)...
Date: 04/17/2015
App-V 5: On the App-V 5 Virtual Registry
I have been meaning to follow-up my previous discussions of the App-V registry staging subsystem...
Date: 04/16/2015
Recommendations for Ignite 2015
Better Dynamic Application Delivery through UE-V & App-V: Aaron Ruckman and myself will be...
Date: 04/16/2015
On Office with App-V: Planning for a Virtual Office Deployment
Microsoft Office: A flagship product suite ubiquitous within the enterprise. The average enterprise...
Date: 04/16/2015
Application Troubleshooting: An Error Message, Without Context, is Worthless
Note: This blog contains free stock photos that were too hilarious to pass up. I was inspired to...
Date: 03/04/2015
App-V 5: Do you Still have to Run Process Monitor within the App-V Bubble when Troubleshooting Applications?
If - by that question you want to know if you must start an instance of Process Monitor within the...
Date: 03/02/2015
App-V 5: Further into COM and Dynamic Virtualization
It has been addressed to me by the MVP community that more clarification is needed with regards to...
Date: 01/13/2015
Manageability Lingo, Standards, & Acronyms, Oh My!
Since the dawn of the 21st century (and even before) you have been hearing many items related to...
Date: 01/10/2015
App-V 5: On the LocationProvider and the IgnoreLocationProvider Feature
In a previous blog entry,...
Date: 01/08/2015
Free Office 2013 App-V Deployment Training now Available on Microsoft Virtual Academy
This week, we have released more guidance on deploying Office 2013 with App-V 5.0 through MVA. In...
Date: 12/11/2014
App-V 5: On the PackageSourceRoot
One way App-V client administrators are able to centrally control and override content streaming...
Date: 12/09/2014
MDOP 2014 R2 is now Available!
The latest version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack has been released! This release...
Date: 12/08/2014
App-V 5: On Background Streaming
Several years ago, I wrote an article for the App-V team blog on the Autoload feature that was first...
Date: 12/03/2014
WMI Explorer 2.0 is now on Codeplex!
When I worked in support, I troubleshot WMI quite bit using many tools. One tool I still keep my eye...
Date: 11/11/2014
On Troubleshooting HTTP Streaming
In App-V stream-to-disk scenarios where HTTP will be used as the streaming protocol, having some...
Date: 10/30/2014
App-V 5: On Using BranchCache vs. Multi-Range with HTTP Streaming
Like with 4.6, App-V 5 uses HTTP Streaming – however – the functionality varies...
Date: 10/28/2014
App-V: How the Sequencer Detects an Existing Package was Created
One of the most consistent recommended practices throughout the history of App-V sequencing is to...
Date: 10/26/2014
App-V 5: On Environment Variables
Environment variables are managed on a per-package basis in App-V 5 just as they have with previous...
Date: 10/26/2014
App-V 5: On the Catalog and Catalog Caching
The App-V 5 catalog is the client collection of package information and package group (Connection...
Date: 10/04/2014
App-V 5: The Case of the Rogue App Path
I have been working issues where it was difficult to determine why a specific application in a...
Date: 09/30/2014
App-V 5: On why the App-V 5 Sequencer Really Reboots
Prior to version 5 of App-V, when you sequenced an application that required a reboot, the reboot...
Date: 09/30/2014
App-V 5: On Package Entitlement and Publishing
Before you ever want to begin testing client publishing, you want to ensure that your entitlements...
Date: 09/22/2014
App-V 5: On App-V Package Modernization with the OPC (Open Package Container) or: One Package Container to rule them all!
Much of the changes in App-V 5 revolved around moving to more integrated components (NTFS, a...
Date: 09/20/2014
App-V 4.6 Sequencing: What are the logs really for?
For sequencing in App-V 5, the new ETW model simplifies the process and moves App-V to the Windows...
Date: 09/20/2014