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Get Virtual Now?!
Now in case you have not heard there is a big event going on soon! The theme of the event is “Get Virtual Now” ( Monday’s (Sept. 8) virtualization event in Bellevue) – translation, with Microsoft software and partner solutions, customers can virtualize Read More...
Using BitLocker under Virtual PC / Virtual Server
I was giving a presentation the other day about SCVMM and our experiences. In the conversation a question was brought up "can you use Bitlocker in a Virtual Environment". Ben Armstrong wrote a nice little article on just how you do this. Up until recently, Read More...
Rakesh Malhotra gets blogging with the best of us!
Currently I am running from one side of Europe to the other so getting time to blog has been difficult! This week was Sweden and next week Edinburgh for a Premier day. But I wanted to take a quick moment when I spotted this news. So for those that don't Read More...
Microsoft Server Virtualization Calculator demo
If you don't by licence's or have no interest in them, then this article probably is not going to be one for you to read...... :( However for the rest of you that carried on reading, I wanted to put up another demo on a handy tool that can show you the Read More...
SoftGrid Guides and Documents
So there is some great SoftGrid Documentation and Guides up on download @ microsoft . The guides have some great value add information to help you get going on your deployments. The SoftGrid Product Team will have a KB coming out soon to talk about the Read More...
Who's using what app!?
So sometimes you may want to sanity check who is using what application or Who has an application open and running. We can do this by using the SQL data; Open SQL Enterprise manager. Now expand the SoftGrid database . Expand the tables. Right-click on Read More...
VMRCPlus - Download
Keith Combs has put up the link a great new tool that I have been playing with all day. Its a great way for controlling and managing your Virtual Server platforms. For those of you running Microsoft Virtual Server , we have a new treat in store for you. Read More...
Using SMS 2003 to upgrade a SoftGrid 4.1.0.56 client to 4.1.1.306 (Service Pack 1)
So here I am trying to figure out how to help out my charity ( a school in south east london ) upgrade there SoftGrid Environment up from v4.1.0.56 to Service Pack 1 . We have SMS 2003 to leverage which is a powerful tool for standard Electronic Software Read More...
Integrate SMS 2003 with SoftGrid Step-By-Step
http://www.microsoft.com/hk/community/article/article_070606.aspx This has been nabbed from the above article. Its a bit ruff and ready but it certainly will get you there. Use this as a guide to setup a test environment and configure SoftGrid 4.x and Read More...
How do customers get access to download SoftGrid online?
You can download it today from the MVLS website 1. Go to https://licensing.microsoft.com 2. Log-in using Passport account 3. Select Product Downloads on the left pane 4. Select in the “Search By Product”: a. Desktop Optimization Pack for SA (This is the Read More...
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 Released!!
While there’s a lot of attention right now on Windows Server Virtualization I think it’s very important that we don’t forget that we have solid production ready technology in Virtual Server that’s about to get even better with the new Virtual Server R2 Read More...
Virtual Server and Beyond......!!!!!
Hi World! If you are a premier Microsoft Customer, get down and see this great event that will be running! we have a little stint on the SoftGrid side and there are some other people doing some great stuff on Virtual Server and Windows Server Virtualisation! Read More...
Branch Office Design.............. Part 1
Ok so I have started drilling into the New Microsoft System Center Virtual Application Server Branch Configuration Guide. Its change slightly from the old softricity days and this is to help us develop some of our core developing plans. Now I have some Read More...
What Gets Virtualized in Softgrid
SystemGuard provides the most extensive virtualization on the market. In addition to virtualizing Windows Services, it virtualizes per user, per application instance ( I emphasis this bit! It is not a computer based distribution methodology! ), every Read More...
Softgrid and Terminal Servers
In Terminal Server/Citrix Environments we see a lot of over capacity of the server estate. Specifically when a business has one troublesome application that has incompatibilities with others that already are in place on the server farm. You have all probably Read More...
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