Tim’S MSIX packaging class
Details
Tim Mangan is running his world famous MSIX course for Switzerland. Whether you use modern or traditional application delivery methods, the applications your company depends on must be customized, and in many cases remediated to work in today’s desktops. MSIX is the future for new applications, and while not all traditional applications will work in the MSIX container, this class will give you the ability to get the most application compatibility possible today.
This course is scheduled to accommodate participants from Europe especially for Switzerland, Germany and Austria and will be delivered by Tim Mangan, who is a world leading MSIX and packaging expert.
Special schedule
This course is especially designed to accommodate participants who work 100% in European Time zone and cannot abandon their work responsibilities. This course will take place from Monday to Thursday for 2 weeks between 13:00 – 17:00 (CET)
Who is it for?
This class is for those who are new to MSIX, and those with prior experience already. Ideally you live in the European area and can better accommodate to the scheduled time CET afternoons.
Pre-requisites
The course is designed for people with a general background in IT and/or Packaging. We take students with or without prior experience in App-V.
There are no hard pre-requisites to be able to take the class, however, the following are helpful:
- Knowledge and experience with general Microsoft Server Administration.
- Knowledge and experience with SQL Server Administration.
- Experience with other “packaging” techniques helpful.
- Experience with App-V Administration and Sequencing.
Remote students will be required to build your own VMs at your site prior to the start of the class
- Each student will require two Windows VMs.
- A pre-class prep kit will provide detailed written instructions, a video introduction to building the VMs, and installers for the tools needed.
- Any type of hypervisor may be used, but the student must have access to create and revert to “snapshots”.
- You will need additional storage on a share for the application installers and created packages.
- It is highly recommended that students have two monitors, microphone, video camera, and earphones.
Course Content
A 8 half-days hands-on class where you will learn the concepts, techniques, and latest tricks to be successful and packaging and configuring applications for delivery within the Enterprise using Microsoft MSIX.
1. Concepts of Packaging
- Principals and rules of Packaging
- Filter Drivers, Function hooking, and Dll Injection
- MSIX technology overview
- Principals of Redirection and Copy-on-Write
- Anatomy of an installer package and the Windows API
2. Overview of Delivery Options
- Including Configuration Manager, Intune, App Attach, PowerShell, and 3rd Party Managers.
3. Fundamentals of the MSIX Package Format and Runtime
4. Setting up VMs for Packaging and Testing
- Setting up a MSIX Capture Station
- Setting up a “Smoke Test” Station
5. Packaging with App-V and MSIX
- Hands-on Labs covering Best Practices, VFS techniques, Modification Packages, Plug-Ins, AppInstaller updates, Shared Package Containers, the PSF Fixes, and package scripts.
- PowerShell for MSIX
- Using MSX Packaging Tool
- The 7 fixups available from the PSF
- Using PsfTooling
- Using TMEditX
- Using other Third-party tools for MSIX
- Automation
- MSIX App Attach, VHD/X and CIM