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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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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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Here's an interesting issue our very own John Behneman ran into the other day. If you're currently investigating a case of missing icons then check this out. ======== Issue: When distributing App-V 4.5 standalone packages to a 4.5 Application
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Ever wanted to open a command prompt for a Virtual Application without editing the package's OSD file? In Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 you no longer have to edit the virtual apps OSD to get a command prompt, just run the following command
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Questions about upgrading from SoftGrid 4.2 to App-V 4.5 seem to be pretty popular so even though this has been out for a few days I thought I'd go ahead and post a link to our upgrade FAQ. The list of questions addressed is below and you can find
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During our RTM announcement we identified a series a whitepapers that would be available throughout the course of September. The first wave of papers is complete and available here on the App-V TechCenter. New whitepapers will be added and
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In case you missed the announcement over on the Virtual World blog , the October issue of TechNet Magazine is now posted online and contains an article focused specifically on Microsoft Application Virtualization. But that's not all as it also contains
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Here's an interesting issue we've seen a couple times in the past few months. Thanks to John Behneman for bringing this to my attention: ======== Issue: When using RTSPS and a 3rd party Certificate Authority some clients may receive the following
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In case you missed all the fireworks and champagne corks yesterday it was in celebration of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 being released to manufacturing. Of course you already know that this version of MDOP will include the highly
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So far in this series we've talked about failing to create and share your Content folder and we've talked about specifying the Default Content Path . In the last installment of the series we're going to talk about defining the %SFT_SOFTGRIDSERVER%
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Here's a great tip on file associations if you publish your virtual apps through a Citrix box. Thanks to Cesar Nunez for writing this up: ======== Issue: When publishing applications through Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Content Redirection (File
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A few days ago I started a three part series covering the top gotchas new SoftGrid Admins tend to run into with a short discussion on configuring the Content folder for your virtualized applications. Today I want to talk about specifying the Default
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As the popularity of Microsoft SoftGrid/App-V continues to accelerate at a record pace, it seems that there's an ever-increasing number of folks who are new to SoftGrid and anxious to jump right in and stream their first virtual app. While overall
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A big advantage to SoftGrid or App-V is that you can run it on a Terminal Server - something some lesser application virtualization products don't do. Being able to run on Terminal Server offers several critical advantages but it also leads to a
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One of the major advantages SoftGrid has over some other virtualization technologies is the ability to deploy applications based on user or group membership. Sure, if you've ever had to deploy applications the old fashioned way then you already
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