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Wikipedia describes Application Virtualization as: Application virtualization is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. A fully virtualized application is not installed in the traditional sense[1], although it is still executed as if it [...]
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Starting tomorrow, I have a new blog post series – Microsoft App-V FAQs. There has been a SoftGrid FAQ blog on Microsoft TechNet in the past, but it’s now very out of date. You can find official FAQs such as the App-V 4.6 on TechNet and an App-V 4.5 SP2 FAQ document, but these are [...]
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This post details virtualising Apple Safari 5.x with Microsoft Application Virtualization; however the same basic steps should apply to any application virtualisation product. Virtualising Apple Safari is a two step process: Extract the setup files from the download so that we can perform a custom installation of Safari Capture the Safari 5 package and customise [...]
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This post details virtualising Paint.NET 3.x with Microsoft Application Virtualization; however the same basic steps should apply to any application virtualisation product. Virtualising Paint.NET is a simple two step process: Configure an unattended installation that installs Paint.NET to configure specific options, including disabling automatic update checks Capture the Paint.NET package and customise it for execution [...]
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This is a guest post from Nicke Källén, an App-V MVP from Sweden. He posts as Znack on the TechNet Forums, where he’s consistently the most active answerer in App-V topics. You can find his blog here. After looking for information in all my usual channels during the last few months and banging my head against the [...]
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Profile bloat – we’ve all seen it. Many applications, and even Windows itself, can store files in the most inappropriate places within the user profile. For example, here’s just part of what the Vodafone Mobile Connect application stores within the roaming portion of my profile: Yes that’s 37.3Mb of logs. Handy. Here’s iTunes storing 161Mb [...]
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This post details virtualising OpenOffice.org 3.x with Microsoft Application Virtualization; however the same basic steps should apply to any application virtualisation product. Virtualising OpenOffice is a basic three-step process: Bundle a version of the Sun Java Runtime Environment with OpenOffice (or link an existing virtual instance of the JRE to a virtual OpenOffice package) Create [...]
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If you are virtualising Mozilla Firefox, you should probably consider disabling the update functionality within the browser, to ensure consistency of the virtual package. There are several items that need to be configured or removed: The automatic updates functionality Help / Check for Updates… menu item The Firefox check-box in the Option / Advanced / [...]
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