Blog | Alkane

Configuring RunVirtual Registry from the AppxManifest.xml

To configure the RunVirtual key from an App-V package we needed to add a registry key/value to the local machine via an App-V script. Since our environment is VDI we are using a new feature in App-V 5 SP3 which...

May 20, 2016

App-V Application Packaging

Scripting Examples for App-V 5 (Updated)

Below are a few scripting examples for App-V 5 configuration files (DeploymentConfig, UserConfig and AppxManifest files – the XML syntax varies slightly between these files but the same principle applies). They’re purely for illustrative purposes and aim to show how...

May 17, 2016

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Check if a User is a Member of an AD Group

This post will provides an example of how we can use ADSI to check if a user is a member of an AD Group using the [ADSISearcher] type accelerator: #remember that this is used as a regular expression (using -match),...

May 13, 2016

App-V Application Packaging

AppxManifest.xml in place of DeploymentConfig.xml and UserConfig.xml

There’s a new feature in the App-V 5.1 Sequencer which enables us to export and import a file called AppxManifest.xml: I’ve been using this approach recently to add custom scripting logic to my packages (I used ACE to make my...

May 9, 2016

MSI Application Packaging

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 2)

This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series which can be found here. Part 3 of the series can be found here. It’s been a while since I looked at signing un-signed drivers I must admit. In...

April 29, 2016

App-V 5 Connection Group Manager

I’ve been testing a new tool developed by Howard over at HRP Consultancy called App-V 5 Connection Group Manager. It’s very handy indeed. There are dozens of scripts out there which do a similar job (keyword – ‘similar’), but most importantly they...

November 25, 2015

VBScript

Create Lnk Shortcut using VBScript

Dim objShell : Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim userProfileFolder : userProfileFolder = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERPROFILE%") Dim desktopFolder : desktopFolder = userProfileFolder & "\Desktop" Dim programFilesFolder : programFilesFolder = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramFiles%") Dim shortcutName : shortcutName = "Alkane Test" Dim shortcutDescription : shortcutDescription = "Alkane...

November 3, 2015

Miscellaneous

Disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee

I was testing an app on a Virtual Machine (a P2V of the client build) and I had a feel McAfee was preventing something from functioning. To test this I needed to disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee. This is how I did it:...

September 29, 2015

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