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Application Compatibility And The Benefits Of Virtualisation

20-Mar-08

If there’s ever a great example of the benefits of application virtualisation it can often be found in the little things.
One of the guys in our team has been sequencing Volo View, which isn’t a particularly well behaved piece of software to begin with. It has a menu option that launches Windows Explorer to view [...]

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Placing The SoftGrid User Data Directory

16-Mar-08

If you’re in the process of rolling out SoftGrid Application Virtualisation, you’ve most likely considered placement of the User Data Directory. The User Data Directory (or user cache) holds application configuration that would normally be stored in the user profile.
Placement of this folder needs to be decided in the context of your profile strategy. [...]

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SoftGrid Tip: What’s On That Q: Drive?

22-Feb-08

Here’s a nice SoftGrid tip from one of the guys in the team here.
If you want to take a look at the SoftGrid client drive, there a several methods. The most common would be to add a PRE LAUNCH script to the OSD file that would launch a Command Prompt window inside the SoftGrid bubble.
Now, I [...]

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Sequencing Apple QuickTime 7.x

03-Feb-08

If you’ve ever looked at deploying Apple QuickTime on Windows you have no doubt run into the challenges in configuring settings for this application. Successfully deploying QuickTime via SoftGrid/Microsoft Application Virtualisation requires that users receive the correct preferences before they run the application.
For some absurd reason QuickTime stores part of it’s preferences in the [...]

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