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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Application Compatibility And The Benefits Of Virtualisation

20-Mar-08

If there’s ever a great example of the benefits of application virtualisation it can often be found in the little things.
One of the guys in our team has been sequencing Volo View, which isn’t a particularly well behaved piece of software to begin with. It has a menu option that launches Windows Explorer to view [...]

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Placing The SoftGrid User Data Directory

16-Mar-08

If you’re in the process of rolling out SoftGrid Application Virtualisation, you’ve most likely considered placement of the User Data Directory. The User Data Directory (or user cache) holds application configuration that would normally be stored in the user profile.
Placement of this folder needs to be decided in the context of your profile strategy. [...]

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Windows Command Line Reference Documentation

14-Mar-08

There’s a couple of command line reference documents available on Microsoft Download recently. Via Aaron Tiensivu, there’s the Windows Command Reference for Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which curiously doesn’t include every command line tool in Windows.
For example SERVERMANAGERCMD, in Windows Server 2008, is not included in this document, nor [...]

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The Short NAP: Thursday March 13 2008

13-Mar-08

The Short NAP is a quick list of links covering Microsoft Network Access Protection and Server/Domain Isolation topics and related information.
Network Access Protection is a great new feature of Windows Server 2008 that will help you understand the health of your client machines (Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 3) and increase the [...]

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