A limitation of App-V applications that are published to users is that we can’t simply right-click a shortcut and run the application as a different user (we will refer to this as the ‘impersonating user’), even if the impersonating user … Continue reading
Why on earth would we need to use an executable to launch another executable!? Well, a while ago I was working on an App-V package where the main shortcut pointed to an executable that resided on a server-side location. The … Continue reading
In modern enterprise environments we typically tell users (or IT administrators) to log in with their normal domain account, and use their administrative domain account for elevation purposes. However, when using a full App-V infrastructure where applications are published to … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Virtualisr is a tool used for App-V 4.6, App-V 5 and App-V 5.1 automated sequencing/virtualisation. It can convert scripted installs (VBS, BAT, CMD) to App-V, convert MSI to App-V and convert executables/legacy installers to App-V. It can rapidly accelerate application migrations … Continue reading
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This is some VBScript code which generates a random GUID and copies it to the clipboard. It doesn’t copy the brackets intentionally, so that pasting the GUID can be used for multiple scenario’s such as MSI (ProductCodes and PackageCode etc, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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.
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 … Continue reading