CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:19pm |
Our standard manifest templates have been updated to work with 64-bit EXEs.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Monday, April 11, 2011 2:54pm |
Although these new properties were available as of Vista, you may not be aware of them due to skipping Vista.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Monday, April 4, 2011 1:25pm |
Microsoft is providing a bunch of freely downloadable App-V Package Accelerators (recipies feature added the recent SP1) for their own software and select free software applications. They are up to 17 as of this writing.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Friday, April 1, 2011 11:55am |
Previously we reported that applying SP1 to a computer that was running VMWare Workstation could cause VMs to be very slow and in some cases cause them to crash. Workstation 7.1.4 has been released and addresses this problem.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:21am |
When a 32-bit program need to print, it uses a special program called splwow64.exe (print thunking layer) to talk to 64-bit printer drivers. PDF printers and some viewers seem to have quite a few challenges with this approach. Here's how I solved my challenges with free alternatives. Also have a few observations about the HP Unversal driver and splwow64.exe.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:00am |
Any given .MSI package is processed as either 32-bit or 64-bit. Depending on the bitness of the process that starts msiexec.exe, the 32 or 64-bit client process may process the user interface of the package, but in the end it is always handed over to the 64-bit Windows Installer Service. Let's unravel some of the mysteries of how this all works and any implications for your packages and processes.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:06pm |
The schedule contains new offerings for App-V Sequencing Engineer (ENG-70), Win7 LUA/Non-Admin Application Integration Engineer (ENG-60) and Windows 7 Packaging Engineer (ENG-51) (with the new 64-bit day!). Check the schedule here.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Monday, March 14, 2011 3:52pm |
Microsoft has release App-V 4.6 SP1. There are some very cool sequencer upgrades in this release. Here are the details on the upgrade and the easiest way to get the upgrade (some public downloads).
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011 12:09pm |
We've been hearing a lot of uncertainty about the challenges and risks of supporting 64-bit Windows. 64-bit Windows 7 has created a massive wave of adoption - put yourself in a position to assess application and operations impact with this new class.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, March 3, 2011 3:33pm |
Working in an environment of mixed 32-bit and 64-bit Windows can mean some frustration when managing registry settings for 32-bit software. In this article we give a description of the challenges, tips and and techniques and a very handy .REG file to ease your frustration!
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, March 3, 2011 1:57pm |
Installing SP1 on a Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 machine that runs VMWare Workstation may cause serious problems with your VMs. This article contains the documented workaround.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:42am |
Windows 7 SP1 has been released by Microsoft. Although notable new functionality for Windows 7 is a short list, the service pack rolls up almost 800 hotfixes.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Friday, February 11, 2011 11:06am |
Some of you really want to be up to the literal second on your tech news - so we now have a twitter feed. Follow the twitter ID @CSIWindowscom to receive our headlines.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:50pm |
"We are not supporting 64bit.", "We are going to do one .MSI package for XP and Windows 7." Sound familiar? It is always best to support as few variants as possible, but make sure you do not paint yourself into a corner.
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 11:48am |
We have made some changes to Windows 7 App-V Sequencing Engineer so that it covers more bases and so that you can purchase just what you need.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Friday, February 4, 2011 1:18am |
Google didn't call it that, but I am. Google Chrome now has support for corporate deployment including a stand-alone MSI and Group Policy templates.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Monday, January 17, 2011 9:26pm |
IBM has been researching how Admins troubleshoot complex systems - to better understand what works and what does not. A couple years and many hours of video tape later, some of their findings are being published at by Communications of the ACM. Check out how the principles in our upcoming troubleshooting course would have helped out in one of these scenarios...
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:09am |
The January 31st delivery of App-V Sequencing Engineer (ENG-70) is full. We have a new date in April available...
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, January 6, 2011 9:22pm |
External manifests can be very frustrating – they never seem to behave as documented. After a long session of forehead-repeatedly-meets-wall one of the greatest sources of frustration has been unearthed.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:02pm |
After feedback from readers, this script has been enhanced to be able to sense when it is running under the 32-bit subsystem of 64-bit Windows. Other improvements include...
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