I was giving a presentation the other day about SCVMM and our experiences. In the conversation a question was brought up “can you use Bitlocker in a Virtual Environment”. Ben Armstrong wrote a nice little article on just how you do this. Up until recently, I thought it was impossible to use BitLocker drive encryption…
Tag: Windows Vista
MCS Sequencing Guidelines
So the team has just published the MCS Sequencing guide! Which is really handy for newbies and re-enforces concept to all the old heads :o) for sequencing. All of us have added one bit or another to the guide so it use to be a helpful internal tool to help people …….. Now its yours…
4.5 Beta and Globalization/Localization
I saw this from Shelley Lau on the Application Virtualization Team blog and thought this is actually a really important message. I mean think about it…… how many Windows Platforms dont use English? and what is Softgrids current support policy on non-English languages ….. don’t remember well read here http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld/archive/2007/06/11/softgrid-on-windows-platforms-internationalization.aspx Basically, today does not have…
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 is Now Available in Beta!
I am getting the odd spot here and there to catch up with old friends! Graham Bell and Patrick Jaspers has been helping on the MDOP stand. On the other hand I have had the pleasure of beating Edwin Yuen on Guitar Hero’s many times…….. as he has had the pleasure of smashing me on…
Announcing the Infrastructure Planning and Design Series and New Releases for Virtualization!
As I got home tonight I Saw this great new whitepaper. Architect for Success! New Guidance to Plan and Design Infrastructure for Application and Server Virtualization. Download them Today! This is a really exciting release for the Solution Accelerators Team. The concept of the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) series is to distill down…
Error When Sequencing Excel 2007
Bob put a post up on the SG team blog which is a nice post, he has spotted some errors on sequencing Excel 2007. Its a handy FYI post and to be aware of so keep this in the back pocket!! ———————- Here’s a problem I ran into a few days ago that I thought was…
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…
New Builds of the SoftGrid 4.2 Clients are Available
J.C put this post up today and it was certainly an important update for me. I went straight to the site and downloaded it, and installed the update to my vista client. Highly recommenced this update! Just a quick heads up that there are new builds of the SoftGrid 4.2 clients available for download. The new build…
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…
SoftGrid Public KBs from August 2007
The Year is just flying by and I am sure that I will start walking down the street and see Christmas lights up soon 🙂 Still to keep you in the light I wanted to get the Softgrid KBs for August up! Hope that these are helpful. SoftGrid Public KBs from January 2007SoftGrid Public KBs…