So a few weeks back I was asked this question…… “We have users that have SoftGrid icon caches growing rather than being cleared out. “%APPDATA%\Softgrid Client\Icon Cache”. Not sure why, but unchecked, we’ll have thousands of ICO files for each user soon.” Its an interesting question and had an interesting answer of the back of…
Tag: Windows XP
Microsoft Office 2007 Sequencing Guide Released!!!
Extra Extra Hot of the Press….. Wanted to ping this out so that you can all get onto this and start playing! This is the guide to Microsoft Office 2007 being sequenced (use the 4.1 SP1 or 4.2 sequencer) with SoftGrid and released to the SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 and 4.2 Clients …. Enjoy….. Prescriptive guidance…
The VFS versus MNT Install
Alvin Morales has posted a link up on the SoftGrid Blog on the VFS versus MNT installs. I will get a demo together later in the month with screen shoots which detail this as well. However we hope that you all find the below useful! You may think that Sequencing is an easy task, and most…
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
IDC Value of MDOP Whitepaper
If your doing a business case or other justification for your requirements to adopt the MDOP (which includes SoftGrid) then this IDC white paper may very well be able to assist you. This IDC white paper examines key pain points and challenges associated with managing the desktop in the enterprise or division of a large…
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…
Using SMS 2003 to upgrade a SoftGrid 4.1.0.56 client to 4.1.1.306 (Service Pack 1)
So here I am trying to figure out how to help out my charity (a school in south east london) upgrade there SoftGrid Environment up from v4.1.0.56 to Service Pack 1. We have SMS 2003 to leverage which is a powerful tool for standard Electronic Software Distribution (ESD). I needed to upgrade around 500 devices…
Integrate SMS 2003 with SoftGrid Step-By-Step
http://www.microsoft.com/hk/community/article/article_070606.aspx This has been nabbed from the above article. Its a bit ruff and ready but it certainly will get you there. Use this as a guide to setup a test environment and configure SoftGrid 4.x and SMS 2003 Connector. SMS 2003 with SoftGrid for MCS + SQL Server X1 SoftGrid Virtual Applications Server…
ADMs? What ADMs?
Its tough enough managing an enterprise environment today without the added presure of managing seperate management interfaces. Currently we (Microsoft) have no natural feature rich ADM files that you can sling into Active Directory and set attribute changes to the client registry. There are a few ADM files out there on Internet. The below is an…