Extra Extra Hot of the Press….. Wanted to ping this out so that you can all get onto this and start playing! This is the guide to Microsoft Office 2007 being sequenced (use the 4.1 SP1 or 4.2 sequencer) with SoftGrid and released to the SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 and 4.2 Clients …. Enjoy….. Prescriptive guidance…
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The VFS versus MNT Install
Alvin Morales has posted a link up on the SoftGrid Blog on the VFS versus MNT installs. I will get a demo together later in the month with screen shoots which detail this as well. However we hope that you all find the below useful! You may think that Sequencing is an easy task, and most…
Using Filemon and Regmon to troubleshoot sequenced applications
So it’s late, all you have in front of you is a stacked number of empty cans, an empty pizza box with that last piece of cold pizza (Go on you know want it…) and surprise you are the last in the office. Why I hear you ask? Well you have followed the “Art of…
SoftGrid Public KBs from June 2007
The core and only KB this month which stands out is Softgrid 4.1 Service Pack 1, we strongly recommend that you should upgrade to this enhanced client/server. Lots of fixes and great support for new applications. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938497 Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1 Service Pack 1 release notes
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 download. http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/7/D/C7DCA0EB-3F2F-4606-B867-1EA91DB643B2/SoftGrid_v4.x_Documentation.exe The documents are from the softricity…
IDC Value of MDOP Whitepaper
If your doing a business case or other justification for your requirements to adopt the MDOP (which includes SoftGrid) then this IDC white paper may very well be able to assist you. This IDC white paper examines key pain points and challenges associated with managing the desktop in the enterprise or division of a large…
Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Upgrades
The Lads and Lasses in the Boston office have just added some more info to there SoftGrid Blog on SP1 We recently released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1. The release notes and download locations are documented in Knowledge Base article 938497. So now that you have Service Pack 1, what’s the best…
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…
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 SP1 Release. Here’s a reminder of the new features. Virtual Server…
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…