From the monthly archives:

October 2008

A number of useful App-V (resource kit) tools have been released which look very useful: Application Virtualization Application Listing Tool The App-V Application Listing Tool (ListVApps) is a tool which lists all the virtual processes that are running at a specific time on a specific computer. You can use the tool to get information about [...]

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I don’t know why I keep getting involved with Java. I know I’ve written about it more than a few times before, but it’s not because I like Java… So before I get into a tirade about it, here’s yet another post on the subject.. Introduction We’ve had some issues taking an existing sequence of [...]

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Adobe have made Flash Player 10 available, but unfortunately there’s still no support for 64-bit browsers, but then Silverlight 2 doesn’t have 64-bit support either. If you’re looking to install Flash Player 10 on Presentation Server/XenApp, make sure you’ve got XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 first or hotfix PSE450R02W2K3028 for Presentation Server 4.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack [...]

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Even though I log onto my domain machine with a standard user account, I’ve been prompted by UAC to elevate when running Registry Editor. After putting up with it for a couple of months, I finally got around to doing something to fix it today. To see what was going on I used Process Explorer [...]

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At the next Vista Squad meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday 15th October), along with Ray Booysen, I’ll be presenting on User Account Control and developing & running as non-admin. There’s a few things we’ll cover, including: User Account Control – what it is and what it isn’t. With any luck we might have time to compare [...]

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Now this looks good: Microsoft Application Virtualization Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. If you’re deploying applications via any virtualisation/streaming solution, monitoring is essential. The Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (App-V) Management Pack enables IT professionals to use Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor App-V server systems. The Management Pack is designed to [...]

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Here’s a download that’s quite timely as I’m looking at application compatibility as a component of my Windows Vista deployment project: Windows Vista Application Compatibility Downloadable List for IT Professionals The Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet containing software applications which have earned the status of “Certified for Windows Vista” [...]

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TechEd EMEA 2008 in sunny Barcelona is coming up pretty quick and the schedule has been posted (you’ll have to be attending to see it). There’s plenty of excellent sessions to choose from and for me it’s going to be lots of App-V and Windows Vista content. The only downside is that on the Thursday [...]

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