Using Shims with App-V 5
I was working on a package recently called Mead Co ScriptX 7.0.2, and was trying to make it work on Windows 7 x64. By default when you clicked the shortcut on the Start Menu it did nothing. However if I...
Running the x64 Powershell from x86 SCCM ConfigMgr
This post describes running the x64 Powershell from x86 SCCM ConfigMgr. I stumbled upon an issue when I’d created a powershell script to manage App-V 5 packages. On an x64 platform, we tried to launch the powershell script with the...
Publishing App-V 5 packages with SCCM 2007
Introduction At the time of writing this article App-V 5 is not natively supported by SCCM 2007. Publishing App-V 5 packages with SCCM 2007 requires either deploying the MSI which gets created by the sequencer, or create a custom Powershell script...
ValMakr – Command Line Windows Installer Automated Validation
ValMakr Prerequisites Visual C++ Redistributables evalcom2.dll (installed with Orca.msi) Introduction ValMakr is a tool which enables us to validate Windows Installers and Windows Installer transforms from the command line. We can use it to automate part of the Quality Assurance process...
CubMakr Version 2 – Video Demonstration
Link to tool: CubMakr Online Tool This is a quick demonstration of the new CubMakr Version 2 features. It covers custom ICE naming, integration with your application tracker and custom ICE routines.
CubMakr – Version 2 BETA Release
Last week we released CubMakr V2, with a few new features. You can find a quick video here. One of the new features was simply being able to specify custom ICE references as opposed to all the ICE messages appearing...
CubMakr – Advanced Scripting Example
I thought I’d give a quick example of how advanced users can utilise advanced scripting in CubMakr. Example 1: Integrating with your Application Tracker The first example I want to show is how we can integrate the CubMakr with your...
A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 1)
This is a cleaned-up version of a post I made a while ago on ITNinja (http://www.itninja.com/question/guide-to-signing-unsigned-drivers). I’ve also incorporated a few changes for Windows 7 etc (using a later version of the WDK) and thanks goes to Rowan Heuvel over at...
