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GLADIATOR@MSFT

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Adventures in Desktop, Application, and User State Virtualization

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89 from 4 Feb 2014 to 19 Feb 2016
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2016 7

  1. On Debugging Virtual Applications: Part 1: Overview (or Let’s Start at the Beginning)
  2. App-V: On Current Recommended Practices and how they Evolve . . . (a.k.a. - about that PVAD)
  3. App-V: Current Recommended Practices for using App-V with Azure RemoteApp
  4. App-V: On Targeting Azure RemoteApp Images with the App-V Management & Publishing Server
  5. App-V: More on App-V with Azure RemoteApp
  6. Anatomy of an Outlier Bug: The Issue of the Failed App-V Report Upload
  7. Less Than 1 Week Until the End of Support for Legacy versions of Internet Explorer (except Windows Vista and Server 2008)

2015 16

  1. For my Friends and Family: You have no excuse not to secure your Microsoft Accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication
  2. Farewell to Zune
  3. App-V 5.x Client Publishing Server Address
  4. Planning for Windows iSCSI SAN boot on Private Cloud Bare Metal Hosts
  5. On the Bloggers, Analysts, and the Shareholders.
  6. App-V: On App-V Applications Hosted in Azure RemoteApp
  7. App-V 5: On Java Virtualization Strategies
  8. On App-V with Azure: Streaming Applications from the Cloud
  9. App-V 5: On the App-V 5 Virtual Registry
  10. Recommendations for Ignite 2015
  11. On Office with App-V: Planning for a Virtual Office Deployment
  12. Application Troubleshooting: An Error Message, Without Context, is Worthless
  13. App-V 5: Do you Still have to Run Process Monitor within the App-V Bubble when Troubleshooting Applications?
  14. App-V 5: Further into COM and Dynamic Virtualization
  15. Manageability Lingo, Standards, & Acronyms, Oh My!
  16. App-V 5: On the LocationProvider and the IgnoreLocationProvider Feature

2014 66

  1. Free Office 2013 App-V Deployment Training now Available on Microsoft Virtual Academy
  2. App-V 5: On the PackageSourceRoot
  3. MDOP 2014 R2 is now Available!
  4. App-V 5: On Background Streaming
  5. WMI Explorer 2.0 is now on Codeplex!
  6. On Troubleshooting HTTP Streaming
  7. App-V 5: On Using BranchCache vs. Multi-Range with HTTP Streaming
  8. App-V: How the Sequencer Detects an Existing Package was Created
  9. App-V 5: On Environment Variables
  10. App-V 5: On the Catalog and Catalog Caching
  11. App-V 5: The Case of the Rogue App Path
  12. App-V 5: On why the App-V 5 Sequencer *Really* Reboots
  13. App-V 5: On Package Entitlement and Publishing
  14. App-V 5: On App-V Package Modernization with the OPC (Open Package Container) or: One Package Container to rule them all!
  15. App-V 4.6 Sequencing: What are the logs really for?
  16. App-V 4.6: So your Client Installation or Upgrade has failed: How do you break down the Logging?
  17. App-V 5 and Citrix Integration Resources
  18. App-V 5: On Application Launch
  19. App-V: On Virtual Registry Nomenclature
  20. App-V 4 Application Troubleshooting: Breaking Down Virtualization Issues Pt. II
  21. AppV 5: Important Considerations and Ramifications for Package Upgrade and VFS Write Mode
  22. App-V 5: On the (now sometimes) Immutable Package Cache Location
  23. App-V 4 Application Troubleshooting: Breaking Down Virtualization Issues Pt. I
  24. App-V 5: Application Troubleshooting: “Fly-by-Night” Error Messages
  25. App-V 5: On App-V Nomenclature
  26. App-V 5: Installing to the PVAD: Don’t do it . . . Yes . . . I said it.
  27. VMM: Options for Offline Servicing, P2V, and Building Virtual Networks
  28. App-V 5: Revisiting Registry Staging
  29. App-V 5 – How App-V 5 Handles Software Clients, Application Capabilities, and URL Protocol Handlers
  30. MED-V: The Case of the Unresponsive Word Window
  31. Free App-V Training from Microsoft Virtual Academy!
  32. The Role of Server Groups in App-V 4
  33. App-V 4: Factors that can cause Performance Issues with App-V 4.x Servers
  34. App-V 5: On App-V 4.x to 5.x Token Transitions
  35. App-V 5: On Asset Intelligence
  36. Chatting All Things Dash V with Richard C on RunAs Radio!
  37. App-V 5: On Streaming
  38. App-V 5: On AddPackage and ConfigurePackage
  39. App-V 5: Be Careful Toggling Shared Content Store Mode
  40. App-V 5: The Case of the Failed Connection Group Descriptor (or . . . Another Reason not to Use Notepad for XML File Creation)
  41. App-V 5: Creating and Testing Office 2013 Connection Groups in Stand-Alone Mode
  42. App-V 5: On Sequencing Using Tokenized Paths, PVAD’s, VFS, and VFS Write Mode
  43. App-V @ #msTechEd 2014 - View the recordings in case you missed it!
  44. App-V 5: Application Troubleshooting: On the Origins of an Error Message
  45. MDOP 2014 Released - along with App-V 5 SP2 Hotfix 4 - plus New Performance Guidelines!
  46. App-V 5: On Virtual Fonts
  47. Information Regarding the Latest Update for Windows 8.1
  48. The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0 is Now Live on the Microsoft Download Center
  49. App-V 5: On Roaming Exclusions
  50. Windows XP: April 8th - Almost Here!
  51. Important Read: Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality
  52. Are you still Using MED-V? If so, do NOT install this update
  53. Microsoft adds software boot camps as prizes for Imagine Cup 2014
  54. App-V 5: On Using Sequencing Templates
  55. Enabling Advanced Windows Installer Logging
  56. App-V 5: On Dynamic Configuration
  57. App-V 5: More on Connection Groups
  58. TechEd North America 2014: Come See Me Talk About App-V 5 Sizing and Capacity Planning
  59. Channel 9 Interview: Life as an MCS Consultant
  60. Connection Group Case Study #2: Paint.NET
  61. Connection Group Case Study: Notepad++
  62. On the Design of (and Sequencing for) Connection Groups
  63. Online Event: Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center
  64. App-V 5: The Case of the RunVirtual Collision
  65. App-V 5: On Run Virtual, RDS Run Virtual, Virtualizable Extensions, and Dynamic Virtualization
  66. Are you *sure* you need to rebuild the WMI Repository?