VMware has introduced a new major release of Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), version 2006 (v10.0). With the release of every 9.x version of DEM, some smaller and bigger improvements, fixes and new features were implemented. What can you expect from this 2006 release? You can read all about it in this blog post. Versioning As mentioned in the introduction, VMware has moved to a new versioning scheme [YY][MM], where [YY] stands for the last two digits of the year (20 in this case) and [MM] stands for the number of the month (June in this case) in which the version is released to manufacturing (RTM).

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With the introduction of App Volumes 4 version 2006, VMware has introduced a preview of multi-format delivery with MSIX app attach. This provides the option to use the same lifecycle and assignment features that were already present in previous versions of App Volumes 4, but now also with MSIX app attach VHDs. This blog post shows you what is already possible with the App Volumes 4 version 2006 release. Introduction Before diving into the App Volumes part, I assume that you are already familiair with MSIX app attach in general, creating MSIX packages and generating VHD packages for MSIX.

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Recently I was involved in a project where I had to create a lot of shortcuts in VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM). DEM does not have a built-in option to bulk import existing shortcuts at this moment. Instead of creating the shortcuts all manually and since the DEM shortcuts are all file based (XML), I decided to create a small script. This script allows you to select a folder that contains existing shortcuts (LNK files) and export them to a folder, where they are saved as DEM XML (shortcut) files.

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