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Advanced Sequencing Techniques Part 2 - Creating a Web Based Application
“A VE for IE” If an organization has applications that are web based it is possible to use the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/18/2007
SoftGrid Client Error 0C-0000003C
I recently had a call where a customer changed the location of the user profiles from a remote file...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/17/2007
SoftGrid Management Console Intermittently Crashes With 0000C800 or 0000C81D Errors
We come across this issue every once in a while so I thought I'd send it out in the hopes that it...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/13/2007
Advanced Sequencing Topics
In response to a recent post on the Microsoft SoftGrid Forums at...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/12/2007
Daylight Saving Time Update - Online Chat
This isn't specific to SoftGrid but I thought you might like to know about this anyway. Should be a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/12/2007
Microsoft Unveils Plans for the MSI Utility for Microsoft Virtualization at VMworld
Microsoft unveiled the plans for its new application virtualization interoperability with SMS/SCCM,...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/11/2007
Announcing the Updated Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Trial Guide
Ever wanted to try the Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization system in your own environment?...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/10/2007
New Knowledge Base Articles for 8/26 through 9/1
Here are the new SoftGrid Knowledge Base articles that published between August 26th and September...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/10/2007
New Builds of the SoftGrid 4.2 Clients are Available
Just a quick heads up that there are new builds of the SoftGrid 4.2 clients available for download....
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/06/2007
Announcing Three New SoftGrid Forums on the SoftGrid TechCenter
I am very excited to announce the creation of three new SoftGrid Forums on the recently released...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/06/2007
Process Explorer v11.0 Released
So what does Process Explorer have to do with SoftGrid? If you've ever had to troubleshoot a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/05/2007
New Knowledge Base Articles for 8/19 through 8/25
Here's a list of the new SoftGrid Knowledge Base articles that published between August 19th and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/04/2007
New Builds of the SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Clients are Available
Just a quick heads up that there are new builds of the SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 clients available for...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/30/2007
Common SoftGrid Rookie Mistakes
In talking to my friend J.C. Hornbeck, who is the Blog Master of the SoftGrid Team blog, he...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/29/2007
You Can Now Request Hotfixes Via The Web
This isn't necessarily SoftGrid specific and some of you may already be aware of this, but you can...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/28/2007
Documentation Set for Microsoft SoftGrid 4.x
This may be old news to some of you but if you haven't seen the SoftGrid Documentation Set that we...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/28/2007
New SoftGrid KB Articles for 8/12 -> 8/18
Here's a list of the new Knowledge Base articles we published recently. Hope these help!...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/27/2007
How Policies are Applied in the SoftGrid Environment
A common question we get is "How do policies work with regards to a virtual application?" Well, the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/27/2007
Inside the Sequencer - Part 2
Sequencing Sequencing is a 34 step process or thereabouts. I usually say that it is a 3 phase...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/24/2007
Using MSDE with Microsoft SoftGrid
So here's a question I get from time to time: "Hey JC, I see that SoftGrid will automatically...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/23/2007
Windows Vista Reliability, Compatibility and Performance Updates Available
Yea, I know, this is somewhat off topic but I thought this would be something you'd appreciate a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/23/2007
SoftGrid Support Policy for Microsoft Applications
We are pleased to announce a new SoftGrid support policy entitled “Description of the support policy...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/23/2007
SoftGrid 3rd Party App Support Policy
We are pleased to announce a new SoftGrid support policy entitled “The support policy for...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/22/2007
Inside the Sequencer - Part 1
Introduction This is the second in the series of “Inside The…” books for SoftGrid, “Inside The...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/21/2007
SoftGrid Client Setup Kit
I stumbled across another 3rd party tool that I thought you might be interested in knowing about....
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/20/2007
Inventorying Microsoft SoftGrid Streamed Applications
On Cristiano's weblog there's a great write-up that shows you how to extend the MOF file in an ESD...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/16/2007
New SoftGrid for Terminal Services Case Study
I generally try to avoid too much marketing stuff but this is a really neat case study that recently...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/14/2007
Troubleshooting SoftGrid with Process Monitor
Microsoft’s SoftGrid product can do some amazing things to help application compatibility issues....
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/13/2007
Inside the Grid: Part 3
Support Besides the elimination of application conflicts, Microsoft SoftGrid Application...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/09/2007
Inside the Grid: Part 2
The SoftGrid Client (SGC) A tongue in cheek saying we used to use at Softricity went something like...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/08/2007
The SoftGrid TechCenter is Live
In case you haven't seen it, we recently launched the new SoftGrid TechCenter site on Microsoft...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/07/2007
Exploring SoftGrid with NetMon Part 2: Application Launch
In part 1 we took a look at what happens when a SoftGrid client does a DC Refresh. During DC Refresh...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/06/2007
Exploring SoftGrid with NetMon Part 1: DC Refresh
So you have your SoftGrid Virtual Application Server (VAS) installed, your applications sequenced...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/03/2007
Inside the Grid: Part 1
Benefits and Backend The following is the first in a series of excerpts from text that I wrote with...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/02/2007
Sequencing Office 2007 using SoftGrid
Now that SoftGrid 4.1 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and SoftGrid 4.2 have come out we published a knowledge...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/01/2007
The VFS versus MNT Install
You may think that Sequencing is an easy task, and most of the time it is - just start monitoring,...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/16/2007
Sequencing Best Practices
This week I want to go over a few of the best practices for sequencing applications, including a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/12/2007
SoftGrid 4.2 Is Now Available
This week we released the latest version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/05/2007
SoftGrid File Checking Utility
I recently came across a tool on the web that I thought you might be interested in. It's called...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/02/2007
SoftGrid Support for Non-English Based Configurations
This is all documented in Knowledge Base article 935684 but I wanted to send a heads up just so that...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/20/2007
Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Now Available
We recently released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1. The release notes and download...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/20/2007
Nominations are now open for the Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.5 (“SoftGrid 4.5”) Technology Adoption Program (TAP)!
Submit your nomination here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qDdwKbDAXLKrLp9cc4ldXA%3d%3d...
Author: amont Date: 06/04/2007
SoftGrid 4.2 Tech Preview Now Available!
Microsoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Technical Preview for Microsoft...
Author: amont Date: 06/01/2007
Tips For Getting Started With Sequencing
If you're new to SoftGrid or just new to sequencing (packaging applications), here are a few tips...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/24/2007
Yet More SoftGrid Tools
In the previous post I mentioned the SoftGrid 4.x Client ADM file but I just wanted to give everyone...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/07/2007
More SoftGrid Tools
Since we're on the subject of SoftGrid related tools, here are a few more that I found that you...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/27/2007
OSD Editor
I recently came across a new free tool on the web and thought you folks might be interested in...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/26/2007
Using Scripts with SoftGrid
We often times get questions about using scripts with SoftGrid so we thought we would post some...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/18/2007
Wednesdays Tips for New SoftGrid Admins
We know there are a lot of you out there who are new to SoftGrid or who will be implementing...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/04/2007
SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 and 4.2
With SoftGrid 4.1 Service Pack 1 and SoftGrid version 4.2 coming up we wanted to share a little...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/29/2007