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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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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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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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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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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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We've seen one or two issues like this and while we're still investigating it I wanted to send out a heads up in case anyone else ran into it: ======== Issue: You may start having communication problems between Outlook and Exchange after installing the
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One of our top Microsoft Application Virtualization engineers by the name of Paul Freitas recently wrote up a couple quick notes on Disconnected Operation (DO) mode and I thought it might be something you all would like to see as well. This assumes
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Last September the esteemed Michelle Foley posted about the List of Applications That Can Be Virtualized but we keep getting a lot of questions on this so I thought it might be time for another go-round. The information in that post is still valid
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This seems to be a relatively popular question so I thought I'd post a quick heads-up here in case you're thinking about trying this in the future. If you want to virtualize the ConfigMgr 2007 admin console then follow these steps: ======== 1. Install
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If you're a regular reader of the SoftGrid, err, uhh, Microsoft Application Virtualization blog here then you probably remember semi-regular posts announcing each weeks new Knowledge Base articles. The would include posts such as http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2008/02/27/new-knowledge-base-articles-for-2-10-through-2-9.aspx
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This may be old news to some of you but it has proven to be so popular that I thought it was worth a mention here. This is a topic that came up on the forum a month or two back but I'll post it here to save you the trip. Basically someone
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