I was chatting to Madelinde Walraven (who is one of the legends in the GTSC EMEA). She was telling me about a case that she had been working on around a customer sequencing group wise and having a number of errors! She found a great solutions with some peers. I thought this sounds cool and…
Tag: 4.2
Nortel Application Switch / Alteon and configuring for Load Balancing with SoftGrid
Well this week I have been up in bonny Scotland assisting a customer and having a merry old time. One of the issues that came up was how they could configure there Alteon’s to successfully load balance softgrid virtual application servers. Originally this was not being successful in any DCRefresh attempts or Streams. Anyway, Nortel…
John Sheehan: Inside Application Virtualization
Gene pinged me the other day about a cool little video up on channel 9! Its a really cool deep dive into App-V that John did. Here’s a good overview of our Application Virtualization product our Architect, John Sheehan, presented a few weeks ago. Here, John Sheehan, the primary architect of SoftGrid (formerly the chief…
Have a look at your Database!
A really handy thing that I tend to do is review the database of the Softgrid 4.x deployment. The SoftGrid Database has a number of vital information. This information allows us to understand certain server configuration issues and the potential for client side problems. To gather this information we need to gain access to SQL…
SFT Explorer 1.4 – Now Available
As always my boy Kalle got busy and updated the SFT Explorer tool. Get the update now! SFT Explorer, version 1.4 – As MSI package SFT Explorer, version 1.4 – As SoftGrid package SFT Explorer, version 1.4 – As ZIP package SFT Explorer features: Loads quickly SFT files – even slightly broken ones View internal…
High pool memory usage on TS based SoftGrid clients under heavy load
Travis my American PFE buddy posted a great post the other day! It was based on some of the TS work he has been doing state side! –—————————- I have been on site with a few customers lately and a common issue I have been seeing is high pool memory usage. This may manifest itself…
Default First app ……64-00000002
Whilst I am in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) I have seen this little error popping up and its not just been here that I have seen this but at quite a few customers now. The default first app is a great little tool to just say "Hi I am softgrid and I am working" And its…
Updated SoftGrid tools by Login Consultants now available!
Patrick are top TSP over in EMEA pinged me a minute ago to say that Login Consultants have updated some of there tools! Login Consultants releases updated versions of the SoftGrid OSD Editor and SoftGrid Migration Tool to support the upcoming version of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (formely SoftGrid) which is now still in beta….
SoftGrid Upgrade: General Guidance and Recommended Practices
J.C pinged us to say that Paul had written up a post on Upgrades! Its really handy and one that can be combined with other old posts such as http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld/archive/2007/06/23/using-sms-2003-to-upgrade-a-softgrid-4-1-0-56-client-to-4-1-1-306-service-pack-1.aspx ———————— We received a number of questions regarding the upgrade process of the various SoftGrid components, so I thought I’d post some general guidelines and…
SoftGrid Visio Stencils
It must have been at least 3/4 months ago I came across these stencils and I said than I would blog about them….. well as you can tell I never did! ubba cool stencils for visio when your designing all your pretty high level design for application virtualization. They are great! my red…