October 2008 - Posts
Yesterday must have been The Day Of The Tool as not only did our very own Andrew Montgomery post on the new App-V Best Practices Analyzer but Karri over on the MDOP blog posted on a veritable salad of App-V deployment and management tools include the
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Just a quick heads up about a couple new white papers that are available for Microsoft Application Virtualization: ----- The first concerns App-V 4.5 management with ConfigMgr 2007 R2 ----- The second is the Microsoft App-V 4.5 Trial Guide ----- All Application
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A sensible question to ask is how you know whether your Streaming Server has settings that result in sub-optimal server performance. Enter the Microsoft Application Virtualization Best Practices Analyzer tool. The App-V BPA is a tool used to scan an App-V
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Here's a cool tip from Michelle Foley on an issue you may run into if you're using one of our newer OSs, or even if you're not I suppose. If you're rolling out App-V 4.5 and noticing that some clients aren't getting the apps and icons they should
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Looks like over on the MDOP blog Karri Alexion-Tiernan posted some tidbits about the latest App-V related tools and whitepapers. The quick list is below but you can read her entire post here . ======== · App-V Home Page Update –
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We have three updated Knowledge Base articles for you this week - titles and links are below: ======== SoftGrid for Terminal Server EN 958917 - Error code when you silently publish an application in a SoftGrid client by using the sftmime command: "4501DB-0C404064-00000006"
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A while back I posted that Microsoft® Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 for Terminal Services will be available to customers as of November 1, 2008 but it looks like you can actually get it via the MVLS site today. Over on the VirtualWorld
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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
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EDIT: The chart linked below may contain some inaccurate information. We're working to update this and will let everyone know when it's complete. I've gone ahead and taken the liberty of removing the features that (according to my sources) don't appear
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See, I told you we had some new KBs in the pipe. We had three new Knowledge Base articles for the week and the titles and links are below: ======== SoftGrid for Windows Desktop 958920 - Error message when you try to save changes to a template on
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Just a friendly reminder that dates are still available for the FREE Microsoft virtualization summit GetVirtualNow. At the summit you can find out how Windows Server 2008® with Hyper-V™, Microsoft System Center - including Virtual Machine
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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! ========
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If you've used SoftGrid or App-V for any length of time then you're surely aware of the virtual drive letter used by each client to host the virtual applications. Typically this is Q: but can be other drive letters as well. Under normal circumstances
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Just an FYI that the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Beta is now released. Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) is covered so this should prove to be an invaluable tool as you plan your rollouts. ======== The Microsoft Assessment
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If you're in charge of administering Microsoft Application Virtualization or any large infrastructure then chances are you're pretty concerned with making sure you're aware of any new Knowledge Base articles as quickly as possible. That's why you
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Here's a great tip sent to me by Sebastian Gernert, one of our Support Escalation Engineers in Germany. Apparently this came up in a forum post so we can't take all the credit but I've written up the summary below: ======== Issue: When attempting
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OK, I know this isn't the type of thing I'd normally cover on this blog but since all of you will likely be affected by Windows 7 in one way or another I thought you might find this interesting in an FYI sort of way. Apparently over on the Windows
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Here's a quick summary of the latest Microsoft Application Virtualization news and downloads for October, including the download for the 4.5 desktop client, case studies, new whitepapers and last but not least, a new home for SoftGrid App-V on the web.
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This isn't necessarily support related but I see questions along this vein asked with regular frequency so I thought that if you haven't seen Gartner's report titled Quantifying the Value of Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack then you might be interested
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I know we've been heavy on the MDOP lately but since if you have one you have the other I figured all you SoftGrid guru's would want to be kept up to date on stuff like this anyway. If you missed the initial announcement, Microsoft now offers a
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If you're in the market for a training class that covers all the various components of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), including SoftGrid/Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), then this is probably what you're looking for. Introduction:
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Here's a neat tip John Behneman sent me the other day. If you have any plans on sequencing Photoshop then this one's for you: ======== When sequencing Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 you may be presented with the following error during the installation
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If you've ever tried sequencing an application that has an installation program that requires a reboot you may have run into this dilemma - How do you restart the computer if you're running the sequencer to capture the installation actions? While
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A new feature released with the 4.1.2.21 & 4.2.1.21 versions of the SoftGrid Client is the ability to run SoftGrid Packages without a Virtual Application Server (VAS). While we do have some documentation on installing and configuring the client
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I'm not sure if you saw these already or not but in case you didn't you'll definitely want to check these out. The first is the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Security Configuration Wizard roles that contain hardening definitions for: Microsoft
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For those of you anxiously waiting to get your hands on Microsoft® Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 for Terminal Services you'll be happy to know that it will be available to customers as of November 1, 2008 through licensing.microsoft.com
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If you've done much troubleshooting of SoftGrid/App-V virtual applications then Process Monitor is probably one of your most highly valued tools. It'll quickly and easily tell you what's being accessed, who's doing the accessing, and is a quick
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Just a quick FYI that the App-V 4.5 Release Notes are now available online at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc817171.aspx . We recommend that you read these Release Notes thoroughly before you install the Application Virtualization
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