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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

App-V 5 Connection Group Manager

[wpdm_package id=’1199′] 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...

November 25, 2015

VBScript

Create Lnk Shortcut using VBScript

Dim objShell : Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim userProfileFolder : userProfileFolder = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERPROFILE%") Dim desktopFolder : desktopFolder = userProfileFolder & "\Desktop" Dim programFilesFolder : programFilesFolder = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramFiles%") Dim shortcutName : shortcutName = "Alkane Test" Dim shortcutDescription : shortcutDescription = "Alkane...

November 3, 2015

Miscellaneous

Disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee

I was testing an app on a Virtual Machine (a P2V of the client build) and I had a feel McAfee was preventing something from functioning. To test this I needed to disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee. This is how I did it:...

September 29, 2015

SharePoint

Hide the Ribbon Controls in SharePoint 2013

I’m using modal dialog boxes (Fancybox) in my jQuery project, and I didn’t want the usual SharePoint ribbon header to appear in these. The simple solution was to hide the ribbon controls in SharePoint 2013 using the following jQuery: $(document).ready(function...

September 25, 2015

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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)

App-V 5 Connection Group Manager

Create Lnk Shortcut using VBScript

Disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee

Hide the Ribbon Controls in SharePoint 2013

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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