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Start an App-V 5 Process Immediately After Publishing

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...

July 20, 2016

PowerShell

Set Registry Key Permissions with Powershell

A useful script to set registry key permissions with Powershell. This example gives full control to the built in Users group. $acl = Get-Acl "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Example" $person = [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount]"BuiltIn\Users" $access = [System.Security.AccessControl.RegistryRights]"FullControl" $inheritance = [System.Security.AccessControl.InheritanceFlags]"ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit" $propagation = [System.Security.AccessControl.PropagationFlags]"None" $type = [System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType]"Allow"...

June 29, 2016

App-V 5.x

Using Taskkill.exe to Kill Multiple Processes on One Line

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...

June 24, 2016

Application Tips

Configuring Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112

I’ve been configuring Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112 recently using the Enterprise installer (googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi), for a legacy Windows XP environment. Anyway, here’s my recipe. We have manually created a master.preferences file: { "session": { "restore_on_startup": 4, "startup_urls": [ "http://www.yourhomepage.co.uk/" ] }, "browser":...

June 15, 2016

App-V 5.x

Using RunVirtual to Present Excel Addins

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...

May 25, 2016

App-V 5.x

Configuring RunVirtual Registry from the AppxManifest.xml

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...

May 20, 2016

App-V 5.x

Scripting Examples for App-V 5 (Updated)

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...

May 17, 2016

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Check if a User is a Member of an AD Group

[catlist name=”PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory” conditional_title=”Other Posts in this Series:” numberposts=5 pagination=yes customfield_orderby=”series_post_order” order=”asc”] This post will provides an example of how we can use ADSI to check if a user is a member of an AD Group using...

May 13, 2016

App-V 5.x

AppxManifest.xml in place of DeploymentConfig.xml and UserConfig.xml

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...

May 9, 2016

MSI Application Packaging

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 2)

This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series which can be found here. Part 3 of the series can be found here. It’s been a while since I looked at signing un-signed drivers I must admit. In...

April 29, 2016

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Author: Kae

Start an App-V 5 Process Immediately After Publishing

Set Registry Key Permissions with Powershell

Using Taskkill.exe to Kill Multiple Processes on One Line

Configuring Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112

Using RunVirtual to Present Excel Addins

Configuring RunVirtual Registry from the AppxManifest.xml

Scripting Examples for App-V 5 (Updated)

Use ADSI to Check if a User is a Member of an AD Group

AppxManifest.xml in place of DeploymentConfig.xml and UserConfig.xml

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 2)

PowerShell Script Support for Installing and Uninstalling Intune Win32 Applications

Use PowerShell to Read MSI Windows Installer Properties

Evergreen Application Packaging converting Winget to MSIX

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