Using BitLocker under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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