An interesting conversation came up in the lunch room today that I thought deserved a good blog for clarification. As you may well be aware, one of the “best practices” for Sequencing an application is to have the application install itself during the monitoring phase to an 8.3 directory on the Q:\ drive. What came…
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Error 53256 Sequencing Adobe CS3
You can tell I am playing catch up on posting …. I have been out on site all week with v little access to the Internet (can you believe that!). So there have been a few threads on the SoftGrid Technet forum on Adobe CS3. Well J.C got some great info and posted it up! I…
Advanced Sequencing techniques – Part 2
So I am currently in Prague in Europe, and gaining Internet access has been very very tuff! I finally found a very little cafe with an access point so I can blog a great post. Sean emailed J.C and I the next installment of his advanced sequencing techniques! Advanced Sequencing Topics – Part 1 Enjoy part…
Advanced Sequencing Topics – Part 1
Sean Donahue has started a great new series of posts that you will be seeing! They are called “Advanced Sequencing”. The posts aims to help gain greater understanding of the steps required to sequence products. —————————————————- In response to a recent post on the Microsoft SoftGrid Forums at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/softgrid/bb676741.aspx this Blog post has been submitted…
Microsoft Unveils Plans for the MSI Utility for Microsoft Virtualization at VMworld
Now I am so glad that this is announced. As I am very excited to talk about this product and the benefits we are all going to have at using it. Chad posted on the SoftGrid Blog today and a news article when up from the announcement at VMWord. Microsoft unveiled the plans for its…
What are the current version of SoftGrid?
After an enjoyable weekend watching the Rugby World Cup (Which is a great love of mine!). I thought I would get back to normality with a post on Client Versions. After the buzz of activities with client upgrades I thought it would be a good time to re-base what the current versions were! Both 4.1 Service…
SoftGrid Community Page on TechCenter
Sean D pinged a mail out to us all with a great new addition to the TechCenter. There are now community based forums which should assist you gain knowledge on the product. ———— I am very excited to announce the creation of 3 new SoftGrid Forums on the recently released SoftGrid TechCenter on TechNet. SoftGrid…
Inside the Sequencer – Part 2
So we follow on from Sean’s next new series! He is starting to enjoying this blogging stuff and its good to see! To see part one hit the below! Inside the Sequencer – Part 1 ——————————————————— Sequencing Sequencing is a 34 step process or thereabouts. I usually say that it is a 3 phase process,…
Sequencing With Tim
Tim Mangan who is a busy chappy on SoftGridGuru has released a number of training videos to demonstrate just how easy it is to do various tasks with SoftGrid. Its a similar concept to the videos that Brian produced a little while back. Tim has publish some great videos here http://www.tmurgent.com/VideoGarden.aspx Check them out and…
Where is the ODBC information stored within a SoftGrid package?
There are a few locations that should be checked in the SoftGrid package to determine if any ODBC information was captured during the sequence.1. Search for odbc.ini: It will be located in the VFS\%CSIDL_WINDOWS% folder2. Registry: Machine\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources or User\%SFT_SID%\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INIIt is highly recommended that you create dummy ODBC entries on the sequencer workstation prior…