This article is a little stale but it's very well written and a great intro if you're new to SoftGrid or wanting to learn more. The title of the article is Take Your App's Virtual With Microsoft SoftGrid and it covers: Benefits of application virtualization...

Here's a problem I ran into a few days ago that I thought was kind of interesting. In case you ever try to sequence Excel 2007 you might appreciate some of the notes I took and what I did to get it working. ====== Problem: After sequencing Excel 2007...

I noticed some posts on the SoftGrid Forums lately that could be addressed with some useful scripting with the .OSD files for a SoftGrid package. Scripting within .OSD files is a very powerful feature and can be used to solve or create workarounds for...

An interesting conversation came up in the lunch room today that I thought deserved a good blog for clarification. As you may well be aware, one of the “best practices” for Sequencing an application is to have the application install itself during the...

Remember when I said that if you're troubleshooting a virtualized application on Windows Vista you need to be using Process Monitor v1.23 ? Well, another issue was discovered in v1.23 so an update has been made and we're now at v1.24. I won't go into...

A week or so ago I talked about how MSDE (Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine) or SQL Express should not be used in a production environment but I never indicated what versions of SQL server we do recommend. After someone asked me this the other day I did some...

"Can you send me a list of all the applications that can be successfully virtualized using Microsoft SoftGrid?" "Can AppX be successfully virtualized using Microsoft SoftGrid?" If I had a nickel for every time I got one of these two questions...... Don...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Windows Server. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Virtualization is a high-priority topic for many enterprise...

If the SoftGrid Terminal Server Client is installed though a normal Terminal Server session it is possible that you may experience inconsistent, confusing and very hard to troubleshoot problems. The SoftGrid Terminal Server Client needs to be installed...

Process Monitor v1.23 is now released and available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx . So why do you want it? You'll want this updated version because it adds the /HookRegistry switch. This switch...

In the current SoftGrid implementation, there are three distinct methods of providing users with an updated version of an existing SoftGrid application. This article will review the three methods and the associated benefits and considerations. When discussing...

Since SoftGrid is part of MDOP I thought you might find this interesting. ====== As of the October Product Use Rights (PUR), customers can now use three of the five MDOP components (AIS, DaRT and AGPM) on their servers covered in the same domain as their...

There are a couple questions we seem to get a lot regarding the new MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization so I thought I’d go ahead and send out this mini-FAQ and try to clear up some of the confusion. 1. Will the new SoftGrid ‘MSI Utility...

Introduction Application virtualization is a key feature of the SoftGrid platform. It provides administrators with a way to prevent applications from interfering with or modifying the local environment. It can also prevent two virtual applications from...

If you try to virtualize (sequence) Adobe CS3 you might find that it fails with the following error: "SystemGuard download failed (error code 53256)". The sft-seq-log.txt also shows the following: [08/01/2007 16:51:38 VRB VFSX] SxS: Starting SxS...

The MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization is a new solution accelerator planned for Q4 CY2007 that expands SoftGrid’s interoperability with SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007. In particular it enables the distribution of virtual applications via SMS...

“A VE for IE” If an organization has applications that are web based it is possible to use the Sequencer to create a Virtual Environment for these applications. Although it is not possible to Sequence all base operating system applications, such as Internet...

I recently had a call where a customer changed the location of the user profiles from a remote file server to the local Citrix Server due to a file server failure. After that the client would receive a 0C-0000003C error attempting to access one very large...

We come across this issue every once in a while so I thought I'd send it out in the hopes that it might save you some pain and heartache if you run into it. Symptoms: When opening or using the SoftGrid Server Management console you may experience the...

In response to a recent post on the Microsoft SoftGrid Forums at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/softgrid/bb676741.aspx this Blog post has been submitted in order to lend some form of guidance to Sequencing scenarios that are beyond the “Standard Sequencing...

This isn't specific to SoftGrid but I thought you might like to know about this anyway. Should be a nice way to find out what you need to do to be ready for the upcoming time change. By the way, SoftGrid isn't affect by the time change but I imagine you...

Microsoft unveiled the plans for its new application virtualization interoperability with SMS/SCCM, third party ESD systems and standalone clients at VMworld. The MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization is a solution accelerator which enables...

Ever wanted to try the Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization system in your own environment? Well now you can. We are pleased to announce the availability of the updated trial guide for Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 and 4.2. This guide walks you...

Here are the new SoftGrid Knowledge Base articles that published between August 26th and September 1st. Yep, there's only one again this week and if you've been keeping up with the blog you've already seen this one but I figured I would go ahead and post...

Just a quick heads up that there are new builds of the SoftGrid 4.2 clients available for download. The new build number is 4.2.0.310 and the SoftGrid 4.2 KB article ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941408 ) has been updated to point to the proper download...