I recently packaged an application that, upon launch, started a process which spawned a child process. The child process remained running after the parent process was closed, and this caused an issue when unpublishing the App-V 5 package. This blog … Continue reading
I’ve been converting a bunch of apps recently from App-V 4.6 format to App-V 5.1 format. I knew this could be done using PowerShell cmdlets, so rather than reinvent the wheel I used a great script written by Tim Mangan … Continue reading
I have a piece of software that acts as an ‘agent’ sitting in the background (in the System Tray) waiting to intercept print requests. It needs to be running all the time since it intercepts print requests from ANY desktop … Continue reading
I’ve had an issue with my current App-V 5 application. When I launch an executable called CentralSurveillance.exe, it spawns another two processes called K2DataLogger.exe and K2MSService.exe. And these remain open even when I close CentralSurveillance.exe. My first thoughts were that … Continue reading
I’ve recently been having a look at the best way to present Excel Add Ins using our locally installed instance of Microsoft Excel and our virtualised Add Ins. The easiest approach is probably to create an additional shortcut in your … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The following posts contains common App-V 5 Powershell commands. Assuming a package consisting of the following: Package Name: AlkaneSolutions AlkaneSolutions.appv AlkaneSolutions_DeploymentConfig.xml AlkaneSolutions_UserConfig.xml and a connection group consisting of: Package Name: AlkaneSolutions_ConnectionGroup AlkaneSolutions_ConnectionGroup.xml General Commands Import the App-V 5 module (so … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading