PowerShell: Get command definition.
With 5.0 being so PowerShell friendly, if you spend a decent amount of time in the shell you probably noticed that the definition of commands tends to get truncated when you, say Get-Command Test-LegacyAppVPackage. Which returns something like this (apologies for the horrible formatting to follow):
CommandType Name Definition ----------- ---- ---------- Cmdlet Test-LegacyAppvPackage Test-LegacyAppvPackage [-Source] <String[]> [-Ve... CommandType Name Definition ----------- ---- ---------- Cmdlet Test-LegacyAppvPackage Test-LegacyAppvPackage [-Source] <String[]> [-Ve...
You might find this trick handy (and for more than just this if you are clever).
$(Get-Command Test-LegacyAppVPackage).Definition
Which returns something like this:
Test-LegacyAppvPackage [-Source] <String[]> [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference>] [-WarningAction <Acti
onPreference>] [-ErrorVariable <String>] [-WarningVariable <String>] [-OutVariable <String>] [-OutBuffer <Int32>]
Much better...
App-V 5.0: Where did my logs go?
If you are looking for a log file for the App-V 5.0 beta you have probably gone through the Admin Guide to no avail. Thankfully they are using event logging now. For some reason this is listed under the sequencer section of the Admin Guide but not the client.
App-V 5.0: Add publishing server.
Simple PS script to add a publishing server.
Import-Module AppVClient Add-AppvPublishingServer -Name <name> -Url http://<hostname>:<port>
MUCH better so far microsoft, MUCH better. Now it just needs to be reliable (something you can't really judge with a beta).
App-V 5.0 Beta, out now.
In case you haven't seen it the 5.0 beta is live.
An interesting change...does this mean since they plan to EOL XP soon they are officially dropping support for it in App-V? Wouldn't be surprising. Also like that "any OS" is now the default.
And quite possibly the nicest addition to the sequencer so far...
