From the monthly archives:

November 2008

If you are deploying the App-V ADM Template to manage your App-V 4.5 clients you may need to consider the timing of deploying of Group Policy settings versus deployment of the client. The App-V ADM Template whitepaper recommends deploying the template after you have deployed the client. If you deploy the 4.5 client settings to [...]

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Ment van der Plas posted yesterday at the SoftGridBlog about what happens when the SCCM and the App-V client co-exist. Given that the SoftGridBlog doesn’t accept comments, here’s an extended reply to Ment’s post. If you are deploying both SCCM and App-V in your environment, you will need to be aware of the interaction between [...]

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This was an open discussion session where customers were able to talk directly with some of the App-V team. There were some interesting details brought up in this session including: A couple of customers in the room were managing 3500 and 5000 applications respectively and one of them was even supporting applications dating back to 1982! [...]

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Well TechEd EMEA 2008 is done and I still have some notes to post from a few more noteworthy sessions, so until then here’s a few more observations about the conference: TechEd was well put together and the content was mostly very good. This was my first since TechEd 2003 in Australia and I was [...]

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This was a session to demo the new features in App-V 4.5, mainly aimed at those people already familiar with App-V. It was presented by Gene Ferioli, a senior program manager on the App-V team. Gene worked with the SCCM team on the App-V integration for SCCM 2007 R2. This session was pretty straight-forward but [...]

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This session was about DirectAccess in Windows 7 and Windows Serve 2008 R2 as well as Terminal Services Remote Desktop Services changes in Windows Server 2008 R2. The DirectAccess feature looks pretty compelling but it will take some time to get to there. However, the Remote Desktop Services stuff was actually pretty cool. DirectAccess DirectAccess [...]

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After experiencing some initial troubles with Internet access from my hotel room, I might be able to start posting some pieces from Tech∙Ed here in Barcelona. Some of these might be out of chronological order, but first up here’s a general odds and ends from my first few days here:   Barcelona is a fascinating [...]

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Microsoft posted a knowledgebase article yesterday titled: With Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 you are unable to Sequence Adobe Reader 7.x or 8.x due to NETOP FEAD Installer error. Essentially the NETOP FEAD installer is not compatible with the 4.5 Sequencer (or perhaps that’s the other way around). Based on the issue described in the article, [...]

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