It’s a simple task to virtualize Firefox, as it lends itself well to application virtualization; however getting it right takes a little more effort. I’ve previously shown you how to sequence Firefox 8, Firefox 7 and Firefox 5. Before embarking on sequencing Firefox, please refer to this companion article - Prepare Mozilla Firefox for Enterprise Deployment and Virtualization - which covers configuring a Firefox installation for virtualizing. It’s important that Firefox is configured correctly for virtualization by disabling specific features..

There’s one thing that I can’t get enough of when automating Windows deployments, it’s ambiguous and confusing error messages. More please, I’m a sucker for punishment.

Deploying Citrix Receiver (full or Enterprise) via an unattended command-line, may result in the installer running indefinitely and not completing until you interact with the target machine.

I shared a lightning round session at BriForum London 2012 with Dan Brinkmann. I rolled two lightning rounds (including Should Office Be in the Base Image?) into one with The Definitive Guide to delivering Office with App-V.

At Citrix Synergy 2012, I had the distinct pleasure of moderating a Geek Speak panel: “User Environment Management smackdown 2012” with Shawn Bass, Helge Klein, Harry Labana from AppSense, Bob Janssen from RES Software and Mike Larkin from Citrix on the state of User Environment Management.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have performed technical editor duties on a couple of App-V books by Augusto Alvarez - Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 and Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide.

The App-V 5.0 Sequencer includes a couple of PowerShell modules and for converting packages is the only interface to use. Here’s how to automate the migration of packages from the old 4.x format to the new App-V 5.0 format.

Last Friday turned out to be a pretty awesome day - my wife and I found out we’ll be having a girl in July and I’ve been selected to receive the Citrix Technology Professional award for 2012.

I’ve been configuring a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V deployment in the lab via MDT to a couple of ProLiant DL380 G5’s. I’ve been keeping the deployment as simple as possible, so there’s no SCVMM integrated at this point and as such I’ve need to configure the Hyper-V networking once the OS is deployed to the machine. Naturally, I don’t want to do that manually.