Hello all, I am back from visiting my grandparent abroad! Myself and Natalie (My better half!) have come back with a nice tan to keep me going through the lovely British Summer! (It is wet!!!!!) Anyway, back to business! So what’s this whole UsrVol_sftfs_v1.pkg thing!! The UsrVol_sftfs_v1.pkg is created for each application and its contents…
Tag: sequencer
Sequencing Best Practices
Just a quick pointer to a blog entry on the SoftGrid Team Blog. Information on sequencing and some tips for 4.2 Vista release. Have a fun weekend and we should welcome back Mr Zarb next week from a well desired holiday.
Did you know…… OS VALUE= ?
If you removed all the OS values within the OSD file it will allow the Application to run on any platform! For Example, The below will only execute and run on windows Vista and Windows XP 1: <?xml version=”1.0″ standalone=”no”?> 2: <SOFTPKG GUID=”C5F08D2E-B660-47E6-83E9-DC0671E78840″ NAME=”By Choice” VERSION=”1.0.0.1″> 3: <IMPLEMENTATION> 4: <CODEBASE HREF=”rtsp://%SFT_SOFTGRIDSERVER%:554/CIP_200/CIP_200_2.sft” GUID=”2522568D-6603-4666-AFC7-D9924FE9B0B6″ SYSGUARDFILE=”CIP_200\osguard.cp” SIZE=”503294652″ PARAMETERS=””…
SFT Explorer
Now I like cool toys and tools to play with and a lot seem to come from login consultants and Virtualapp which are great! However again, this tool comes from Virtualapp.net , the tool essentially allows you to look inside your SFT packages without the requirements of bringing the application into the sequencer…. or having…
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…
Learning Microsoft SoftGrid Blogcast Series
So I saw this little set of nuggets that Brian Tucker has been really good to sit down and come up with for deploying SoftGrid 4.1.1.302 from Scratch. Its a really nice quick introduction for the die hard SMS man! So hats of to Brian for starting to become a good convert to the cause! Brian…
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…
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…