Monthly Archives: November 2007

More on SoftGrid and Adobe Acrobat

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 … Continue reading

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SoftGrid: Sequencing Adobe Acrobat 8 – The Story So Far

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 … Continue reading

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The Short NAP: Friday November 22 2007

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 … Continue reading

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SoftGrid Infrastructure Planning and Design documents available

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 … Continue reading

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Enable Streaming from File in SoftGrid 4.5

The default behaviour of the SoftGrid Application Virtualisation 4.5 client is to not allow applications to be streamed from a file, i.e. streaming an application from a local OSD file rather than from the server. If you attempt to load … Continue reading

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