From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Microsoft has issued an security advisory for a non-security update (I know, sounds odd, but bear with me) - Microsoft Security Advisory (967940), Update for Windows Autorun. Specifically this update fixes an issue that prevents the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry key from functioning as expected. IT World has covered the update and US-CERT actually issued a security alert about the [...]

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OK, I’m not one for conspiracy theories (well there is the whole JFK thing), but compare the new Apple Safari 4 beta against Google Chrome. Here Chrome in all it’s glory: And here’s the new Safari 4 beta: Notice the similar window style and button layout? Apple knows Google is onto a good thing. Still [...]

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Ment van der Plas, of Login Consultants, has gone and created the most awesome App-V client tool – the App-V 4.5 Client Diagnostic and Configuration tool: ACDC makes it possible for administrators or users to troubleshoot virtual applications and the environment they run in: Launch predefined and custom commands within the virtual environment of each [...]

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Here’s a few articles that I’ve been reading recently and I thought it might be worthwhile sharing them: Kevin Reeuwijk has an article on integrating App-V 4.5 with SCCM 2007 R2, but shows us how to get the best of both worlds - How to integrate App-V with SCCM without losing the features you care about. [...]

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A press release from Immidio landed in by inbox today – Flex Profiles, formerly by Login Consultants, has been updated to version 6. It comes as a free Express version and from what I can tell, you can pay for support. Immidio announces the launch of Immidio Flex Profiles 6.0, the successor of the popular [...]

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The latest beta of Chrome (2.0.169.1) now works unmodified on Windows 7 x64 I’ve had some issues with Google Chrome (1.0.154.48) running on Windows 7 x64, but thanks to these two links, it’s now working great. To get Chome working you’ll need to add switches to your Chrome shortcut. Most people look to be getting [...]

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Here’s an interesting video on the Channel 9 site about the architecture of Microsoft Application Virtualization: John Sheehan, Architect of Microsoft’s AppVirt (SoftGrid) technology, spends some time with me digging (deeply) into the architecture and engineering of the application virtualization technology he and team create. A few months ago John joined us for a Going [...]

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Ment van der Plas has a great article on virtual application deployment in SCCM 2007 R2 The App-V 4.5 Full Infrastructure scenario (with App-V Management / Streaming server) only supports User Based application deployment. If you are using the Configuration Manager 2007 R2 integration of App-V 4.5 you can do both User and Machine based [...]

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