http://www.softgridblog.com Thu, 27 May 2010 12:17:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From source: App-V 4.5 Service Pack 2 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 code line. This is the first time the team has delivered via Windows Update. App-V 4.5 SP2 introduces: Enhanced failover protection or disaster recovery of your virtual application infrastructure: App-V data-store failover protection enables administrators to quickly ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=157 From source: The SuperFlow interactive content model provides a structured and interactive interface for viewing documentation. Each SuperFlow includes comprehensive information about a specific dataflow, workflow, or process. Depending on the focus of the SuperFlow, you will find overview information, steps that include detailed information, procedures, sample log entries, best practices, ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=156 One of the new features of App-V 4.6 is the ability to share a pre-populated cache amongst multiple virtual desktops running in a VDI environment. Since running App-V in the traditional way, meaning streaming each application on-demand to each user into each VM, can cause some I/O overhead depending on ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=155 A bit off-topic, but might be useful for some of you. Immidio also has some freeware tools available from the Immidio website. Recently two were added: ActiveApp Scanner - Monitor which applications are actually used during a user's Windows session and collect information about the user environment, like keyboard, regional settings, network ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=154 Finally, it’s time. After some years it’s time to migrate to the next Operating System on the desktop, Windows 7. After the very low adoption of Windows Vista within companies I am really happy to see in the field is that a lot of companies are planning, or at least ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=152 I’ve been able to sequence every version of Microsoft Office I’ve ever come across. This goes back to Microsoft Office 95/97, 2000, but also more recent versions like Office 2003 and 2007. But I’m not writing this post to brag about this impressive list (ahum) and also not because I ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=153 Finally, after a sneak preview last month, Immidio AppScriber 2.0 is released and a trial version is available for download (registration required) From the website: Immidio AppScriber gives users the freedom to activate applications in a secure self-service manner. IT departments save on labor while remaining in control. Immidio AppScriber 2.0 introduces delegated authorization ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=151 When I’m troubleshooting an App-V application one of the first things I check is whether the application is loading and running on that particular client. To rule out distribution issues I find myself more than often adding the application manually to the client cache. If you don’t have the ability ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=150 Immidio will be releasing Immidio AppScriber 2.0 the coming month. This might be the coolest productivity add-on for Microsoft App-V. As I have blogged before, AppScriber is a web-based add-on for existing deployment solutions, which provides application Self-Provisioning. Version 2.0 of AppScriber now finally adds a configurable workflow engine, which allows you ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=148 Just Zarb wrote a nice approach when an organization is starting on virtualizing their application portfolio. The first step in such a project is to identify which applications are installed and used in your environment. If your application delivery method currently consists of automating applications you probably have a good insight ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=149 One of the biggest issues App-V customers run into when virtualizing (sequencing) the Microsoft Office Suite is the limitation of interaction between locally installed application/functionality and the virtual instance of the Office Suite. With this in mind Microsoft created the MS Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V which is available ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=147 Immidio Flex Profiles Advanced is a Windows Profile Management solution which solves a lot of Windows Profile Management issues and optimizes the overall user experience of Windows Profiles. This is achieved by decoupling and segmenting personal application settings from the underlying Windows OS and Profile, making these settings available cross-Windows Platform ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=146 MDOP 2009 R2, which containts App-V 4.5, is available for current MDOP customers and MSDN/Technet subscribers.  Besides MED-V, all the products within MDOP now support Windows 7. MED-V will support Windows 7, as Host OS (not Guest OS) in a release planned for Q1 2010. Check out the detailed article on ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=145 The RDS (Terminal Server) team blog announces the release of an App-V for Terminal Services Whitepaper:  "We are proud to announce the availability of the white paper “Application Virtualization 4.5 for Terminal Services.”  This white paper discusses the benefits, configurations, and considerations when planning a Terminal Services (TS) solution with Microsoft ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=142 Now that the App-V client is part of the Windows Server 2008 CAL it seems that Microsoft has released the App-V 4.5 TS client as a free download. Part of the download process is the registration of your 20 digit Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server Product Identification Key or ... http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=144