So I wanted to close of this series that Sean D has been progressing. I have been flat out in the UK and have not spent the time giving back to the community as normal! So this is part 3 or the 3 part series!! The first two series can be found below; Inside the…
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SoftGrid Public KBs from July 2007
Hi Gang, New KB article for July 2007 are released. The SoftGrid product has 4 new additions. All 4 in my opinion are worthy of a read. There are 2 KBs that focus on Office 2007, with best practice and support policies! Some great documentation around the new SoftGrid releases and one KB which I highly…
Inside the Grid: Part 2
So Sean D this time has updated his series on inside the grid! Part Two has kicked off and it has some great information for you! Enjoy! ———————————————- The SoftGrid Client (SGC) A tongue in cheek saying we used to use at Softricity went something like this; “With SoftGrid you NEVER have to install an…
Exploring SoftGrid with NetMon Part 2: Application Launch
This is a great little series that the team of in America are putting together. Sean D J.C Hornbeck has put some hard work to create this series! Hats of again to the man 🙂 In part 1 we took a look at what happens when a SoftGrid client does a DC Refresh. During DC Refresh…
Exploring SoftGrid with NetMon Part 1: DC Refresh
This is a great part two of this series that the softgrid team are doing. This is a nice example of what is actually traveling over the wire and the process behind the DC Refresh. Enjoy —————————————— So you have your SoftGrid Virtual Application Server (VAS) installed, your applications sequenced and your clients deployed, but…
How do customers get access to download SoftGrid 4.2 online?
This is an update to an older blog around downloading the MDOP. The MDOP now contains the 4.2 release. 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…
New SoftGrid Virtual Labs!
There are a couple of new virtual labs up for you guys to try and play with!!! Please go wild on these labs…. There are here for you to play with and mess with to learn! I strongly advise you to start on these. The Old Labs which I bloged about are no longer there… ahhhhhhh…
How do we find out a SoftGrid Client error messages?
Now this may seem like a really strange post but recently an email was sent to me saying that a user was trying to run an application but all that was happening in the system tray was “Launch Failed”……. I replied back with “but what’s the error code!!!!!!” , and then it dawned on me……….
Installing the SoftGrid Client on a non-domain machine
Many of our customers want to use SoftGrid for users that sit on machines outside there security boundary. In these instances they lose some management for deploying the client and pushing policy’s to enforce. However, this is normally offset by the benefits that SoftGrid offer. The KB article details this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931172 Firstly, You may want…
So how do we clean up them orphaned icons!?
So we recently posted on orphaned icon files that could potentially be left behind in the users %appdata% . Well I was recently chatting to Kalle Saunamäki from www.virtualapp.net and one of the tools that he was working on was the SoftGridJanitor. The SoftGridJanitor can help organisations clean up any old orphaned icons, bats, osd’s…