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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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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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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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Have you ever seen one of those blogs where all the writer does is post about posts on other people's blogs? Well that's not my goal here, although for the 2nd day in a row I'm going to have to poach something from Justin Zarb and his world famous
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Here's a great tip from Jason Alanis, a real life SoftGrid support engineer in Texas. While we don't see this terribly often it can be confusing when you run into it. ======== Issue: When a virtualized application was streamed to a client, the client
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I had to put together an Excel 2003 package for another project so with all the questions we get about sequencing Office and the various applications it contains, I thought it might be a good idea to document this in case anyone else wanted to use it.
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A SQL Database issue that we have seen in the field with SoftGrid 4.1 Servers is the SoftGrid SQL database growing very large and reaching a point where the SoftGrid server becomes sluggish and starts showing signs of intermittent connectivity problems
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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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Here's a tip for any of you running into a problem launching the SoftGrid or App-V management console. This one comes from Steve Bucci, a real life (where's that reference from?) SoftGrid/App-V engineer from North Carolina: ======== Issue: The SoftGrid
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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
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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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