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Tag Archives: SoftGrid

App-V 4.5 Putting It’s Best Face Forward

30-Jun-08

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 icons [...]

Update On Running Adobe CS3 Applications In SoftGrid

09-Jun-08

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 testing [...]

SoftGrid Applications Keep Coming Back

30-Apr-08

This error seems to popup every now and then and I’m currently seeing this in my own lab environment - SoftGrid application shortcuts are created even though the application has been disabled, deleted or the user account has been removed from the application group.
When a user logs onto the computer, the SoftGrid client contacts the [...]

May User Group Presentations

28-Apr-08

I’ve got two user group presentations coming up next month where I’ll be presenting on Microsoft SoftGrid and why I think application virtualisation is great stuff. Hopefully I’ll be able to fit in a bit about some other appvirt products in there too.
The first presentation will be in Australia at the Brisbane Infrastructure [...]