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Monthly Archives: November 2007

More on SoftGrid and Adobe Acrobat

28-Nov-07

After working on sequencing Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional for the better part of four days, I’ve come to the conclusion that this application is just not going to work well from within SoftGrid. Here’s my reasoning:
First up, this is what I’ve found does work from within SoftGrid:

Adobe Acrobat Professional. This will successfully create a PDF [...]

SoftGrid: Sequencing Adobe Acrobat 8 – The Story So Far

27-Nov-07

I’m not completely convinced that Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) is the best candidate for deploying via application virtualisation techniques, but if you’re looking to do it you’re in for a bit of a ride.
Getting this one as far as I have has taken the better part of three days and I still have some challenges [...]

The Short NAP: Friday November 22 2007

23-Nov-07

The Short NAP is a (semi-regular) quick list of Microsoft Network Access Protection and Server/Domain Isolation related links from around the web. Here are the links for Friday the 22nd of November 2007:

Network Access Protection with MSIT: an interview on Channel 9 with Jeff Sigman about NAP. This is worth checking out.
A Windows Server 2003-based [...]

SoftGrid Infrastructure Planning and Design documents available

20-Nov-07

Microsoft have just made available a new series of Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) documents. The IPD documents are essentially the new version of the Windows Server System Reference Architecture:
The IPD series is the next step in the evolution of architectural guidance for Microsoft infrastructure. IPD is designed to make the consumption of architectural guidance [...]