From the monthly archives:

June 2008

App-V 4.5 Putting It’s Best Face Forward

in Virtualisation

What’s the best new feature of Microsoft Application Virtualisation 4.5? There’s plenty to pick from, but I’m digging the new Vista style icons: SoftGrid has suffered from some clunky UI in the past, but thankfully 4.5 had made plenty of changes in the client, sequencer and server console which are most welcome. There are still some [...]

Tagged as: App-V, SoftGrid

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Remote Desktop Connection 6.1 for Windows XP SP2

in Terminal Server

Want the Remote Desktop Connection 6.1 client for Windows XP but can’t update to Service Pack 3 or Windows Vista? No need to hack files from SP3, just grab the update from here: Update for Windows XP (KB952155) Install this update to use new Terminal Services features on a computer that is running Windows XP [...]

Tagged as: Remote Desktop Connection

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Fixing Explorer’s Security Warning Prompts

in Windows

Last week I wrote about avoiding Explorer’s Security Warning prompts, this time around I want to document a related fix that I’ve had to implement because Explorer’s expected behaviour was not just not working. First a quick background on what we’re trying to solve. By default, Windows Explorer will place network locations (mapped drives and [...]

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Avoiding Explorer’s Security Warning Prompts

in Windows

Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 made some changes to the way Windows handles specific file types opened or downloaded from certain locations, which results in Open File – Security Warning prompts like these: Quite often users see these prompts in environments where files are opened from UNC paths [...]

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Sun JRE Install Script Update

in Deployment

I’ve updated my Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.6 Update X script, again. Updating this script seems to be a never ending task, usually because I find mistakes but this time around I’ve made a couple of changes including Windows x64 support. The script will now supports installing the 32-bit version of the JRE on x86 [...]

Tagged as: Java, Unattended

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Intel vPro and Network Access Protection

in Access Control

Here’s something I found interesting about Intel’s vPro management tool – Network Access Protection interaction is supported in hardware – even before the operating system has loaded. This isn’t mean to replace the agent in the OS, but it great stuff from a management perspective. Here’s the details: Q9: How does Network Access Protection (NAP) [...]

Tagged as: NAP

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Update On Running Adobe CS3 Applications In SoftGrid

in Virtualisation

I have previously detailed some efforts on sequencing some of the Adobe CS3 applications (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and some challenges related to the FLEXnet licensing component that comes with each application. It’s only recently that we’ve been able to do some user acceptance testing and we’ve found that the applications have failed. During initial [...]

Tagged as: SoftGrid

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Setting Visio Viewer As Default

in Workspace Management

Got both Visio Viewer 2007 and Visio 2007 on the same machine but want to set Visio Viewer as the default for some users? Here’s what you’ll need to do. With Visio 2007 and Visio Viewer on the same machine, Visio will the default application for .VSD files, so we need change the default application [...]

Tagged as: Terminal Server, Visio

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