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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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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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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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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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This useful tip on moving to a new domain comes from Paul Freitas, one of our top gun support engineers out in Charlotte, North Carolina: ======== Say a SoftGrid Server is running in a production environment and the domain in which it operates is being
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Should I run anti-virus software when I sequence applications or should I not? That's a question we hear all the time. And no wonder, since we mention in our sequencing best practices that our recommendation is to disable all anti-virus and malware detection
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Yesterday I posted Sequencing Office Professional 2007 in 30 easy steps but it occurred to me that some of you might be interested in softcopy of this as well. I thought about attaching it to the original post but was concerned that since that post was
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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
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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.
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A question we get every now and then concerns taking a snapshot of a virtual machine while you're in the middle of monitoring a sequencing process. Sometimes you might want to do this if the sequencing of your application is long and drawn out,
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We get a lot of questions about what you need to do after installing a 4.x SoftGrid Virtual Application Server (VAS, or would that be Microsoft Application Virtualization Virtual Application Server? I digress...) so I thought I'd post a couple of
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We received a number of questions regarding the upgrade process of the various SoftGrid components, so I thought I’d post some general guidelines and recommended best practices we usually try to follow. This information was originally compiled for
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