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June 2008 - Posts

App-V: The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide
I came across this the other day and thought that a lot of you would find it useful so here you go.  If you haven't seen this before, it's part of a series of planning and design guides that clarify and streamline the planning and design process Read More...
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Release Candidate is Now Available!!
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 Read More...
A Farewell to SoftGrid
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 Read More...
Launching Help in Office 2007 generates Windows Installer Error 1305
Here's an interesting issue that Paul Freitas ran across the other day that you might find interesting.  I hadn't seen this one before but if you're sequencing using one drive letter and your clients use another then chances are you'll hit it eventually. Read More...
"Resolve Partial Assembly failed" error when running sequenced application
Here's a cool issue recently uncovered by Paul Freitas, one of our Support Engineers for MS App Virtualization. I hadn't come across this error before but if you see it this may be a good thing to check. ======== Issue: When an application is installed Read More...
MS Application Virtualization: New Group Policy ADM template to be available with the 4.5 Release Candidate
There’s been a lot of interest in whether we are releasing a supported Group Policy Administrative (ADM) Template file with Application Virtualization 4.5. Happily, the answer is “yes”! Our ADM Template will be made available with the 4.5 Release Candidate. Read More...
MSDN and TechNet get a make over
This isn't something specific to MS Application Virtualization but it's pretty cool nonetheless. It was a long time coming but both MSDN and TechNet got a much needed make-over last week so if you haven't stopped by lately you'll want to check it out Read More...
Troubleshooting an ever growing Usrvol_sftfs.pkg file
I was reviewing some of the SoftGrid Microsoft Application Virtualization issues that came in over the past couple weeks I found a good one that was worked by Paul Freitas , one of our Support Engineers out in Boston.  This is a troubleshooting tip Read More...
Sysinternals Live: Launch troubleshooting tools from a browser
We've written about Process Monitor a few times in the past month, and if you've ever had to troubleshoot a SoftGrid sequencing issue then you know how valuable tools such as Process Monitor, File Monitor and Registry Monitor are, and now with Sysinternals Read More...
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