Exciting news! AppVentiX 4.1, our latest release, is now available. Packed with numerous 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.
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New features and improvements in AppVentiX 4.1
Scalability Enhancements
Optimized for large-scale environments, delivering higher performance and reduced load on network shares. The agent now caches the content share inventory and reads only changed content.
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.
The AppVentiX story
AppVentiX is a lightweight powerful management and deployment solution for App-V, MSIX (app attach) and FSlogix app masking, AppVentiX makes it incredibly simple and straight forward to deploy and update Microsoft application packages in your environment. AppVentiX also allows customers to manage App-V and MSIX side by side and helps with the journey from App-V to MSIX.
AppVentiX supports the management of App-V and MSIX (app attach) on virtual machines and physical machines. No matter if they run in the cloud or on-premises. Both Server OS, Multi-session OS and Single-session OS are supported by AppVentiX.
AppVentiX supports customers no matter if they are running on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid, by supporting all hybrid uses cases AppVentiX helps customers when they want to move from on-premises to cloud and from App-V to MSIX, in a pace that fits the customer.
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