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The World Simplified is a Virtual World
Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional Add-In for Rack Server Virtualization (Virtual Rack)
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over 5 years ago
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zarbie
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Duane Thomas a buddy of mine, pinged me a link to this darn cool add-in to Visio. This amazing Add-in from Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional helps you plan virtualization. With over 70% of server hardware being under-utilized, this very valuable...
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Terminal Server Fonts in SoftGrid
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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Just wanted to ping this up to the community as this has been an interesting talking point to a number of our Terminal Server/Citrix customers. In the past Softricity SoftGrid never use to be able to virtualize fonts in terminal server environments. To...
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VMRCPlus in a bit more depth
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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In case you missed the news, I wanted to make sure you heard that VMRCplus version 1.5 is available internally and will soon be available publicly in TechNet magazine and as part of the Virtual Server Resource Kit. VMRCplus is an alternate UI as opposed...
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Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 Beta Available Now
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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This to me was a pretty big announcement on Friday that the Microsoft Terminal Server Team Released .......... The mac RDC Client is back! This is great for the new upcoming Windows Server 2008 TS Gateway .... as our mac customers can look to start to...
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Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack including SoftGrid and Sys Internals - 1/2 day technical overview
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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Ok So Mr Bennett and I are running the SoftGrid Section of a technical community day at TVP on the 28th March! Some details are on http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2007/03/07/microsoft-desktop-optimisation-pack-including-softgrid-and-sys...
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SoftGrid MDOP Video with Chad Jones
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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Chad Jones has got a nice demo and overview up on the web. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/enterprise/videos.mspx Its right at the bottom of the page! Or you could just click the link below :) If you get to see...
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Using Scripts with SoftGrid
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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The chaps out in Boston are doing some great work at the moment and have even started getting there blog going! I will probably point to the Team a lot when important notes do pop up. Anyway they also done an excellent post on scripting in SoftGrid The...
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Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 RC released to the web!
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over 4 years ago
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zarbie
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With the public availability of Windows 7 RC, Windows Server 2008 R2 RC and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, you may want the Windows 7 RC Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) tools which are now publicly available. What is RSAT RSAT Client is the...
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A few Citrix and SoftGrid bits!
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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So its been a really busy week and my time was not spent blogging! I ended up completing my Prince2 certification which meant this week was a busy one to say the least! Friday came and another exam and the certification was in So I was in a thread on...
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Dynamic Virtual Channels
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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With Windows Server 2008 creeping up to us closer and closer an important aspect to the Microsoft Virtualization Strategy is our terminal server deployments. The TS team posted some further information around the Dynamic Virtual Channels in Windows Server...
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Quickly Launching the Command Prompt
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over 4 years ago
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zarbie
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One of the quickest and easiest feature for the 4.5 client is being able to launch a command prompt from the virtual environment. I was one of them peps that also use to get annoyed when i had to modify the OSD file in 4.2 and earlier…. Now in 4.5 you...
The World Simplified is a Virtual World
Windows Server Virtualization Videos from Teched 2007!
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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So I will be posting some great Virtualization Video's from TechEd 2007 over the next couple of days! These were two great Videos around Windows Server Virtualization (Which had more people hitting these stands than you could shake a stick at!). These...
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<HREF> Examples
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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Owwwww with just 7 days before ITForum in Europe its getting very exciting! I wont be on the SoftGrid Stand however you can come and bug me on one of the Windows Server 2008 stands! Look for the jolly looking version of me these days I am out in Stockholm...
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Micro Branch Scenario
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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I saw this great little discussing around the Micro Branch Scenario that Gene Ferioli was discussing. In the 4.5 Help file we describe the Micro Branch Scenario as the following; Micro Branch Scenario This scenario is ideal for environments where you...
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Hyper-V R2 sizing tool now available from HP
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over 4 years ago
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zarbie
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Good Old Patrick Lownds pinged me today to let me know that HP have released there Hyper-V R2 sizing tool. The HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 is an automated, downloadable tool that provides quick and helpful sizing guidance for “best-fit” HP...
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Virtual Application Management with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2
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over 5 years ago
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zarbie
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Steve pinged me earlier today to let me know that a new white paper that he had been working on was up. The white paper was around SCCM 2007 R2 and App-V 4.5 management. The Virtual Application Management with App-V 4.5 and SCCM R2 whitepaper is now available...
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How do customers get access to download SoftGrid online?
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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You can download it today from the MVLS website 1. Go to https://licensing.microsoft.com 2. Log-in using Passport account 3. Select Product Downloads on the left pane 4. Select in the “Search By Product”: a. Desktop Optimization Pack...
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PFE Hyper-V Ops Day – October
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over 5 years ago
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zarbie
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We ran a Hyper-V day at the end of October, and collated a series of useful links and best practice guidance. Well here we go: Architecture Informal Hyper-V Architecture Disucssions http://edge.technet.com/Media/Hyper-V-how-it-works-Interview-with-PMs...
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How to deploy SoftGrid MSI's under Limited User context
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over 5 years ago
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zarbie
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This was a nice little post that Ment van der Plas wrote. Its funny cos it helped in a discussion that I was having Matheesha who works in another team but does a similar job! The discussion was around delegating permissions to allow application installations...
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SoftGrid Operations Guide - Part 1
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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So Brian has been writing this guide and updating it for some time! He has put a lot of work into the document and finally it was decided to post it to the SoftGrid Product Team Blog . Brian Kelly, one of our top gun SoftGrid tech guru's, recently put...
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Learning Microsoft SoftGrid Blogcast Series
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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So I saw this little set of nuggets that Brian Tucker has been really good to sit down and come up with for deploying SoftGrid 4.1.1.302 from Scratch. Its a really nice quick introduction for the die hard SMS man! So hats of to Brian for starting to become...
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Using Filemon and Regmon to troubleshoot sequenced applications
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over 6 years ago
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awbennett
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So it’s late, all you have in front of you is a stacked number of empty cans, an empty pizza box with that last piece of cold pizza (Go on you know want it...) and surprise you are the last in the office. Why I hear you ask? Well you have followed the...
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Microsoft Office 2007 Sequencing Guide Released!!!
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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Extra Extra Hot of the Press..... Wanted to ping this out so that you can all get onto this and start playing! This is the guide to Microsoft Office 2007 being sequenced (use the 4.1 SP1 or 4.2 sequencer) with SoftGrid and released to the SoftGrid 4.1...
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SoftGrid 3.1 Sequencing Best Practices (Technically out of date)
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over 6 years ago
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zarbie
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General Disclaimer This is a copy of a document created by Softricity, Inc specifically to provide assistance in sequencing applications using the system. It was developed for Sequencer v3.1. While it is technically out of date , the material is still...
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Virtual PC and Virtual Server verison numbers as well as additions
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over 5 years ago
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Dcraig
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Have you ever tried to figure out if you had the latest VM additions installed on all your Virtual Guests? This week I was at a customer site reviewing a Virtual Server 2005 R2 Deployment. At the customer site they had a mix of VM additions installed...
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