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 SMS 2003 Connector. SMS 2003 with SoftGrid for MCS + SQL Server X1 SoftGrid Virtual Applications Server…
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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 fulfillment for Windows Desktop Client & MDOP) b. SoftGrid CAL for TS 4.1…
SoftGrid on Windows Platforms (Internationalization)
A common question that pops up quite often is the support for SoftGrid on non-English platforms. Whether this be the Management Console or other Core component. We plan to address this in later versions of SoftGrid in the Future but currently this is not the case in 4.1 or 4.2. KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935684/en-us explains this in more…
ADMs? What ADMs?
Its tough enough managing an enterprise environment today without the added presure of managing seperate management interfaces. Currently we (Microsoft) have no natural feature rich ADM files that you can sling into Active Directory and set attribute changes to the client registry. There are a few ADM files out there on Internet. The below is an…
Can I sequence my old NT4 app’s!?
Well the answer is easy ….. No!? Or is it….. This is really a two fold statement. We do not have a sequencer for NT 4.0. So basically you cannot sequence your application from NT 4.0 directly and put them straight into your Windows XP SoftGrid environment! So if that’s the case, how do…
Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack including SoftGrid and Sys Internals – 1/2 day technical overview
Ok So Mr Bennett and I are running the SoftGrid Section of a technical community day at TVP on the 28th March! Some details are on http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2007/03/07/microsoft-desktop-optimisation-pack-including-softgrid-and-sys-internals-1-2-day-technical-overview.aspx But the overview is the below! If your a Partner I would seriously get down to TVP and ask a million and one questions! We will be frank and…
Start to look at Troubleshooting – Simple
If you have a problem with streaming a package it may be worth you checking some of the following; Make sure that your package is pointing to the right location for content if it’s in a sub directory. This has caught me out in the past when I first started….. Also, Check that your…
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 views that I would have liked to have seen in the Branch…
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 critical application component including the Registry, file system, DLLs, COM/IPC, .INI files, process environment and fonts: Registry: SystemGuard creates…
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 seen the below where we show a basic over view off applications conflicting; Application…