This was stunning for me to see and it totally caught me of guard! I was never expecting such a bold statement of supportability from Oracle! By surprise Oracle today announces its own hypervisor based on Xen: Oracle VM. The new product includes a web management console and will be released for free (with optional…
Year: 2007
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 is Open for Public Beta
And away we go!!!!! Welcome to ITForum and Welcome to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Beta!!! The keynote has kicked off with an amazing display of technologies and one that jumped out straight at me was our very own Application Virtualization product!!!! If you go to connect you can download the open beta of Microsoft update…
Set Up For the big Day!
So with 1 Day to go, we are here in Barcelona and setting up! Wayne Richards, Lee Morfil, Jane Lewis, Duane Thomas, Jamie Zink (US) , and I are running around getting all the demo’s up and loaded. Its been great getting here a day earlier…… there is lot of stuff to do and lots…
Sitting in Airports!
2 Days till the conference kicks off and I am making my way to Barca! I love that City, Its amazing! As I sit here in Gatwick Airport (London) I think back to TechEd Orlando and start to remember the lessons learned; 1. Remember the days are longs so drinks lots and keep taking fluids…
Announcing the Infrastructure Planning and Design Series and New Releases for Virtualization!
As I got home tonight I Saw this great new whitepaper. Architect for Success! New Guidance to Plan and Design Infrastructure for Application and Server Virtualization. Download them Today! This is a really exciting release for the Solution Accelerators Team. The concept of the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) series is to distill down…
<REGISTRY> Examples – Registry Customizations
3 days to go till ITForum, and its already getting lots of interest…. My inbox is overflowing with people who want to meet up and am chatting to loads of my Redmond/Boston based friends that are on route now . Anyway, hopefully this will be useful to someone…… just random dumps of example customizations…
SoftGrid Public KBs from October 2007
4 Days till ITForum and I am starting to get my bag packed …..its funny as I have had hardly any time to unpack it since getting back to London! One KB for October! Nice and easy one! Have a read of this KB as it describes situation that you may find yourself in when…
Webcast: Optimizing Desktop Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization (Level 300)
So with Christmas around the Corner it might be worth sitting back with a drink…… some nibbles………and watching a darn good webcast before going to your Christmas party at work! When I was compiling my section of the Technical Rollup (http://blogs.technet.com/trm ) I came across a really nice web cast! Sign up and put this…
<WORKINGDIR> Examples – Specifying a Working Directory
5 Days till ITForum! Here are a few examples of specifying a working Directory in the OSD……. Example 1 – Generic Example <IMPLEMENTATION> <WORKINGDIR>C:\temp</WORKINGDIR> <CODEBASE HREF=”rtsp://ds1-soft1:554/np_ecj.sft?Customer=Sequencer” FILENAME=”np_ecj\notepad.exe” PARAMETERS=”cjm.txt” GUID=”D47C0A23-32CF-11D6-990A-00A0CC6413D5″/> <OS VALUE=”WinXP”/> </IMPLENENTATION> Example 2 – Long File Name Example <IMPLEMENTATION> <WORKINGDIR>C:\program files\internet explorer</WORKINGDIR> <CODEBASE HREF=”rtsp://ds1-soft1:554/np_ecj.sft?Customer=Sequencer” FILENAME=”np_ecj\notepad.exe” PARAMETERS=”cjm.txt” GUID=”D47C0A23-32CF-11D6-990A-00A0CC6413D5″/> <OS VALUE=”WinXP”/> </IMPLENENTATION> Example…
<PARAMETERS> Examples
6 Days to go before ITForum! As you can see I am doing a big count down! Will continue on the theme of examples this week! As always, feel free to add any extras in the comments! NOTE: The PARAMETERS tag will not support environment variables (e.g. %SFT_MNT%). Example 1 – Generic Example <CODEBASE FILENAME=”\ABCD\EXECUTE\Z_RUN.EXE”…