It is with great enthusiasm that the Microsoft Application Virtualization product team announces the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of App-V 4.5!!! App-V 4.5 represents a huge step forward for the product and is the result of many hours of hard work by...

We tend to see more issues with sequencing Office than any other product so I decided to put together a quick step by step on how I do it. I needed to create another package for another project anyway so figured why not. My hope is that this will give...

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...

One of the questions I always seem to get from people new to the SoftGrid product is “Hey J.C., I’m new to this whole SoftGrid thing, so what are some of the errors I might run into once I roll this out?” Well, that’s a great question, and an easy one...

As promised, here's part 2 of Brian Kelly's SoftGrid Operations Guide: ====== 3.3 Remove a Specific Application from a SoftGrid Client PC The following procedure describes how to remove a specific application package from the SoftGrid cache on a client...

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...

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 week I want to go over a few of the best practices for sequencing applications, including a couple Vista specific suggestions now that version 4.2 is released and we fully support sequencing and virtualizing applications on Windows Vista. Each application...

Today, our topic will be files and folders. As you probably already noticed, there is another drive (often named as Q ), which is not accessible from user environment, in client machines Today we will cover the files and folders which are available by...

Brian Kelly, one of our top gun SoftGrid tech guru's, recently put together a really cool SoftGrid operations guide that covers day-to-day procedures for managing and operating the SoftGrid infrastructure.  Well, I guess technically it would now...

"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...

During the sequencing process of Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Service Pack 2 (SP2) using the Microsoft App-V 4.6 sequencer you may get the following error: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side...

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...

<Updated 08/03/2009> If you're familiar with all the cool new features we've put into Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 then you're probably already aware of Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) and how it can really streamline your virtualization...

The Microsoft Application Virtualization team is very excited to announce that our version 4.5 Release Candidate is now available! We’ve been working incredibly hard since the Beta release to bring you the best version of the product to date and we think...

This week we released the latest version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance (MDOP) on http://licensing.microsoft.com , including the SoftGrid 4.2 Client and Sequencer which add Vista compatibility. The CD image also contains...

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...

So I was perusing the SoftGrid forums the other day and came across an issue a few folks were having and fortunately the solution as well.  Apparently when installing the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) server component you can run into...

The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V enables Office 2010 client products to be sequenced and deployed with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is required for sequencing and deploying...

Here are a couple tips on some errors you might run into implementing Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 in a standalone mode.  These were written up John Behneman, our resident App-V issue documenting machine.  Hope this helps! =====...

The App-V 5.0 Beta Server is made up 3 components – Management Server, Publishing Server and the Management Database. The components are dependent but have varying requirements and actions to have them successfully deployed. The goal of this series...

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...

Because I have received many questions about App-V with HTTP, I decided to create an article to describe the process and the underlying theory of this deployment method. From an App-V point of view, this deployment method is not too complicated, but there...

These Microsoft App-V Package Accelerators help you quickly and easily create an App-V virtual application package for various software packages, all by simply clicking through a Wizard and answering a couple questions. By following the Wizard in the...

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...