Now as I have mentioned in the past, that this month and next will be traveling around a lot. And one of these trips puts me on a stand at TechEd Barcelona (I am on one of the Windows Server 2008 stands, so come and find me and say hello!!!) . The other thing which is stopping me at…
Troubleshooting SoftGrid with Process Monitor
A great blog by the SoftGrid Team, incase you have not seen it here it is. Thanks Mike Ory Microsoft’s SoftGrid product can do some amazing things to help application compatibility issues. That being said, while administering your SoftGrid environment, you will undoubtedly come across problems with specific applications. You may successfully stream your application…
47 Awesome Twitter Tools You Should be Using
So continuing on the twitter theme, so you get it, how to use it and whatelse can I do. A great blog entry on www.deontee.com pull’s this all together and offer links to some interesting tools to try. here it is: Enjoy. Contact Management TweetBeep – Google Alerts meets Twitter. Great service that notifies you…
How to download the MDOP 2009 / App-V 4.5 CU1 from MSDN
So your a partner/IT Pro or just a developer that has access to MSDN but no access to Volume Licensing! hmmmmmm How do I get the MDOP 2009 for testing!? I want to test App-V 4.5 CU1?? I want to test MED-V?? etc etc I hear this a lot, and get emailed a lot with…
Getting Started with The App-V Shared Cache in 4.6 RC – Part 2 Building the FSD Cache
I have been sitting on this one for a while so thought i would get this out :o) I will update this with screenshots later . So lets take a look at the infrastructure that we will be working with. I have a several components running in an App-V Full Infrastructure; A Sequencer Several XP…
Disk2vhd Released!
Now this is a cool tool that gave me some massive loving recently. I was in a situation that i needed to repro a customer issue and wanted to take it away with me for further testing, obviously i could not take there PC ……. or could i :o) Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell have…
SoftGrid Preload App’s
I saw this great piece of information on http://www.virtualapp.net/scripts.html and thought that this was a nice v1 script for loading application into cache. This script will check for and Preload only those SoftGrid applications currently not 100% in cache for the user. Summary Application pre-loading script that can be run on client machine in order to…
How to Automate the creation of App-V 5.0 Connection Group Debug Commands
Hi all, Following on from http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualworld/archive/2013/11/21/how-to-automate-the-creation-of-app-v-5-0-debug-command-prompts.aspx post, how do we automate the creation of connection group debug commands???? Firstly you need to get the connection groups you require using Get-AppvClientConnectionGroup. The first thing we need to do is create a directory to create the debug command prompts in, so the snippet below is creating that…
Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC)
One of our great team posted some information to the Technet Forum. A question was asked around contexting, which Lidiane (Lead PM) and Matt responded too. I have grabbed the main chucks of information around Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) but you should read the whole thread! The “contexting” feature we introduced in SoftGrid 4.5…
Introducing Virtual Application Extensions in App-V 5.0
Hi Everyone! So you may have heard rumours about App-V 5.0 applications being able to have less isolation and more entry points to the base OS. Well, that’s true, it’s all because of a new feature called Virtual Application Extensions. This new feature allows you to be very intentional around certain Microsoft Windows components that…