Excited to share that AppVentiX released a brand new version full of cool new features and improvements!
AppVentiX continues to be the go-to solution, recognized by IT industry experts for its real-time, user-friendly, and robust management of App-V and MSIX (app attach) applications across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud native environments.
Highlights of the new AppVentiX 4.1 release:
This release contains a lot of scalability improvements for large-scale environments, delivering higher performance and reduced load on network shares.
Central View Enhancements
- Optimized inventory caching mechanism, reducing content inventory processing time from seconds to milliseconds.
- Improved content overview with dedicated views for Package content and App masking, making navigation more intuitive.
- Right-click context menu updates and faster overall load times.
- Added column filtering options in Central View for quicker sorting, searching, and data analysis.
Inventory Improvements
- Enhanced multi-machine inventory handling.
- New ability to change the inventory storage location (e.g., move to a different share).
Multi-Domain Support
- Improved compatibility and functionality in multi-domain environments.
User Group Retrieval Enhancements
- Updated group memberships can now be retrieved without requiring user logoff/logon, enabling immediate application availability after group assignment.
MSIX Improvements
- Enhanced roaming support when using profile containers like FSLogix.
- Improved expand to App Attach process.
- Package information is now correctly displayed in the refresh progress window.
- Improved experience when importing applications from the Microsoft Store.
- Easier creation of MSIX packages directly from the Central View console, with simplified management of shortcuts, scripts, and package content.
App-V Enhancements
- New option to unpublish packages at logoff, ensuring a clean publishing state and preventing orphaned shortcuts.
- Extended App-V client settings in agent configuration.
- Support for multiple deployment configuration files in the same folder (see Admin Guide).
- Agent GUI now supports mounting App-V packages.
- By default, the agent GUI only displays packages published to the current user unless launched with administrative privileges.
Agent Stability Improvements
- The AppVentiX Agent service will now retry if the initial configuration cannot be retrieved, instead of stopping.
- General improvements to service stability and module loading.
- Enhanced Citrix image mode detection.
- Enhanced offline support with improved configuration caching for scenarios where the configuration share is unavailable.
Improved Refresh Experience
- Package information is now accurately displayed during application refresh operations, both via the agent GUI and the dedicated Start Menu refresh applet, providing clearer status updates.
QUIC File Share Support
- Full support for QUIC file shares, a secure SMB over SSL protocol compatible with on-prem and Azure file shares, based on the latest TLS standards.
AVD Integration Enhancements
- Now supports multiple Azure subscriptions for better scalability in virtual desktop environments.
General Improvements
- Numerous usability and UI updates.
- Broad stability and scalability enhancements across the platform.
- AppVentiX Powershell module improvements.
Other improvements and fixes
The following list of improvements are also implemented in version 4.1:
- PowerShell Module UI Bug
Fixed an issue where the “Show Icon” was missing for packages published via the AppVentiX PowerShell module. - Expand to App Attach could fail
Resolved a problem where expand to App Attach failed for packages with long names. - MSIX Dependency Handling
Fixed incorrect display of MSIX dependency packages in the package details view. - Regional Compatibility
Addressed various localization issues on non-English operating systems. - App-V Client Module Load
Improved reliability in loading App-V client modules by the service. - Other Fixes
Various minor fixes and enhancements to improve overall stability and performance.
AppVentiX has a free community version and installs under 10 minutes, AppVentiX doesn’t need any back-end infrastructure. You will get immediate results which will make you confident about releasing new applications and updates in real-time. AppVentiX supports Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365, RDS, Omnissa and Citrix deployments both on-premises and in the cloud. Both persistent and non-persistent configurations are supported. The solution is powerful, light weight and integrates easily in your existing environment.
For more information visit the AppVentiX website:
AppVentiX 4.1 Release
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