Microsoft's own Steve Rachui explains how to quickly and easily test remote SQL connectivity using any account you like.  This is a neat trick that will surely prove useful when working with a wide variety of products. J.C. Hornbeck | System Center...

Just a heads up on a new MED-V Knowledge Base article we published yesterday.  If you're having trouble uploading an image to an image distribution server you'll definitely want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms The following error may occur...

So you say you didn't get a chance to attend Tech·Ed Berlin?  Or maybe you did but you still just can't get enough of Desktop Virtualization?  Either way, Dave Trupkin, Senior Product Manager for App-V and Med-V, was there and he spent some...

Just in case you missed it, our very own Karri Alexion-Tiernan recently posted a great article that goes through the trends, the advantages and the opportunities of integrating Desktop Virtualization into your Windows 7 plans over on the Windows Team...

In working with MED-V and supporting MED-V, I have found that there are three major areas that can be affected when using NAT mode instead of Bridged Mode with persistent mode MED-V workspaces. - Application Icons not displaying properly (or being cached...

The following is a list of the entire default environment variables used by MED-V 1.0 Service Pack 1 organized by use context. Variables Allowed for Renaming Computer during VM Setup During the VM Setup process, there is an optional action to rename the...

Hi, I’m Dave Trupkin, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), the two desktop virtualization components of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). Today I...

Working in support, I get many questions and issues related to how MED-V v1 handles user settings and credentials.  Hopefully the information below will help explain how a lot of this works. The ProfileInfo.XML File Basic user settings such as server...

Whether you need to demonstrate MED-V in proof-of-concept situation for an application compatibility scenario or testing in an offline or development setting, gaining access to multiple machines may be challenging. Having a portable mechanism for testing...

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) Workspaces may periodically lose network connectivity due to one or more of the following reasons: 1.) Failure to retrieve an IP address via DHCP. 2.) DHCP Client loses current IP Address lease. 3.)...

If a user is attempting to start a MED-V Workspace and the user receives a message stating that there are no workspaces available, or they see list of workspaces and the one intended for the user is not available, this is usually because of one of the...

When using MED-V version 1, you have the option of controlling which web URLs will open in the host browser and which URLs will open in the guest browser. This only works with Internet Explorer because the mechanism MED-V uses to facilitate this is a...

I know this isn’t necessarily specific to WSUS but I wanted to let you know of a new support offering that we're rolling out. I am sure many of you have contacted Microsoft for support in the past and are aware of our various support offerings. We have...

I ran into an existing issue with a customer the other day. The customer had many users which were having trouble starting their MED-V workspaces. All of the users affected were getting this error message upon startup: They were using revertible workspaces...

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) removes the barriers to Windows 7 upgrades by resolving application incompatibility issues from legacy LOB applications and Internet Explorer 6/7 web apps. MED-V v2 Beta will enable customers to pre...

One request I have seen often from my customers lately has been a request for an in-depth discussion on how MED-V handles images and metadata. If you have been working with MED-V, by now you are probably familiar with the basics of how MED-V handles images...

An issue I see sometimes with our MED-V customers using image deployment servers is the slow download speed when downloading MED-V images. This can be quite inconvenient when leveraging TrimTransfer for deploying images (especially updates for revertible...

In many Enterprise environments, there are multiple users logging onto a single workstation. What happens when multiple users use a workstation that has a MED-V Workspace? When managed properly, each user will be able to use the MED-V workspace and their...

Has this ever happened to you? You prepare a Virtual PC image for use with MED-V and you get the following error: “Failed to start Workspace <workspacename>”. Event ID 52 This is immediately followed a list of five possible causes. I would like...

When you run the MED-V Client on the Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system, you may get a warning message when you attempt to log out of Windows while a MED-V workspace is still running: (Waiting for) MED-V The MED-V workspace must be closed before...

Printing in MED-V is pretty straight forward. You have two options for printing from MED-V workspaces: Printing from within the guest operating system and redirecting guest operating system printer output to the host printer subsystem (local printer redirection...

The Windows® 7 operating system and its default browser, Windows® Internet Explorer® 8, offer many exciting new features and benefits. However, organizations may find that some of the older applications they rely on are not yet functional or supported...

The following are some of the errors you may encounter when attempting to join a domain using the VM Setup script for Persistent MED-V Workspaces. This process is referred to as FTS (First-Time-Setup.) All of these fall under Event ID 49 which reflects...

I am constantly asked the following questions in some form or fashion: When do I use the VM Preparation Tool to configure Auto Logon? Do I use both SYSPREP and the VM Preparation Tool to configure Auto-Login? Why is this option there in the VM preparation...

Now that MED-V 1.0 Service Pack 1 is available, here are some recommendations regarding upgrading a MED-V 1.0 RTM environment to Service Pack 1. Necessary Preparation In general, the method for the likely best upgrading experience requires some preparation...