September 2007 - Posts
Compressing or not compressing during sequencing has benefits and disadvantages:- Compressed . The sequenced stream will be smaller; this can be useful where storage is of concern, or more probable, where the network utilisation is of concern. Compressing
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No. Once a computer is using virtual applications deployed in this way it can not longer 'switch' back to streaming mode. By 'switch' I mean run in mixed-mode or easily go back to streamed mode. The client will either work in machine context offline mode,
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The new MSI Utility has been announced (formally WiAVE); check out the product teams' blog here and for more information on client side application licensing see my blog entry here . Using the MSI Utility we are now pre-caching the virtual application
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There is a simple answer to this, and of course, a more complex one. Simple answer. No. The virtual application is read only and cannot be infected once it has been sequenced. Complex answer. There are several places a virus or malware can be introduced,
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I noted an issue yesterday where an application took over 40 seconds to launch on a Windows Vista client. After the usual investigation methods (was it sequenced on Vista, is the Cache ok, running performance monitoring tools, event logs, SG logs, etc)
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The simple answer is one (1). The sequencer is a single threaded application and will not take advantage of multi-core or multi-socket systems. Sequencer investments are better made in the disk I/O sub-system (see my item on disk performance). In theory,
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The sequencer, virtual or physical, should have two partitions (or disks), the first, normally C: is for the base build, and the 2 nd , normally Q: is for the installation of the application to be sequenced. Sequencing is a very disk I/O intensive operation.
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If a virtualised application writes to the event log, will the host machine (and therefore any event log monitoring services) have visibility. Yes. We don't virtualise the event log in the SystemGuard and therefore any applications that write to it, will
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