I know there have been a lot of questions regarding the availability of ZeroTouch for Microsoft SoftGrid (or lack thereof) so I thought I’d take this opportunity to clarify the current state of the product as well as its future as it stands today. But...

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we've received a few reports about our management console not installing on a Windows Server 2003 computer if Service Pack 2 has been installed. There is no true interoperability issue, it just appears that...

Introduction Process Monitor is a troubleshooting and data collection tool used by many systems administrators as well as Microsoft’s support organization. The goal of this post is to help you gain hands-on experience using this valuable troubleshooting...

Hello everyone! We are incredibly excited to announce that after a long, tough road, Microsoft Application Virtualization is now ready for beta!!! This beta represents a lot of blood, sweat and tears by the team, but we believe it was well worth it to...

Ever since Softricity was acquired by Microsoft back in 2006 there's been a lot speculation as to what the name of the SoftGrid product would eventually be - Will it be called Microsoft SoftGrid, MSAV or will Microsoft come up with something completely...

This seems to be a relatively popular question so I thought I'd post a quick heads-up here in case you're thinking about trying this in the future. If you want to virtualize the ConfigMgr 2007 admin console then follow these steps: ======== 1. Install...

Today at the Virtualization Deployment Summit , we announced expanded support for virtualizing Microsoft Office System 2003 and 2007 using both Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.2.  This is great news...

Hi and welcome to the Microsoft SoftGrid blog! As some of you may already know, on July 17th of last year Microsoft completed the acquisition of Softricity Inc., a leading provider of application virtualization and dynamic streaming technologies. Virtualization...

We often times get questions about using scripts with SoftGrid so we thought we would post some basics to get you started. We have the ability to run any number and style of scripts within an OSD file and these scripts can be immensely useful in overcoming...

If you're new to SoftGrid or just new to sequencing (packaging applications), here are a few tips that should help you avoid some time consuming issues: Familiarize yourself with any application you plan to sequence. You also need to be familiar with...

Microsoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Technical Preview for Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.2. This evolutionary release contains several updates, including Windows Vista compatibility, support for sequencing...

The SoftGrid Client (SGC) A tongue in cheek saying we used to use at Softricity went something like this; “With SoftGrid you NEVER have to install an application again, (cough), except our client”. While this may be true, the SoftGrid client does in fact...

Microsoft’s SoftGrid product can do some amazing things to help application compatibility issues. That being said, while administering your SoftGrid environment, you will undoubtedly come across problems with specific applications. You may successfully...

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...

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...

This may be old news to some of you but if you haven't seen the SoftGrid Documentation Set that we published you'll want to check it out. It's published as Knowledge Base article 940163 and includes the following documents: • SoftGrid Client Installation...

If you've ever tried sequencing an application that has an installation program that requires a reboot you may have run into this dilemma - How do you restart the computer if you're running the sequencer to capture the installation actions?  While...

So far in this series we've talked about failing to create and share your Content folder and we've talked about specifying the Default Content Path .  In the last installment of the series we're going to talk about defining the %SFT_SOFTGRIDSERVER...

During our RTM announcement we identified a series a whitepapers that would be available throughout the course of September.  The first wave of papers is complete and available here on the App-V TechCenter.  New whitepapers will be added and...

Questions about upgrading from SoftGrid 4.2 to App-V 4.5 seem to be pretty popular so even though this has been out for a few days I thought I'd go ahead and post a link to our upgrade FAQ.  The list of questions addressed is below and you can find...

One of the major advantages SoftGrid has over some other virtualization technologies is the ability to deploy applications based on user or group membership.  Sure, if you've ever had to deploy applications the old fashioned way then you already...

A few days ago I started a three part series covering the top gotchas new SoftGrid Admins tend to run into with a short discussion on configuring the Content folder for your virtualized applications.  Today I want to talk about specifying the Default...

As a Support Engineer for SoftGrid and App-V, a question that I ask a lot from my customers is "Can I take a look at the documentation you used or created for this sequence?" Most of the time the answer is that no such documentation exists. I also know...

If you have ever tried to setup an App-V Remote Management Console or upgraded your existing 4.1 SoftGrid environment to App-V 4.5 just to have the Remote Management Console stop working this post is for you. Lately we have received a number support calls...

As we said yesterday, each day of this week we will have different posts covering the different App-V Resource Kit tools. Today we will talk about the cache resizing tool. Often companies start exploring application virtualization by publishing a limited...