Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er : Softgrid

Sequencing Config Manager Admin Console (MMC) : App-V General Sequencing : Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) : Microsoft TechNet Forums

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:19:13 GMT

This solution for sequencing the console was given to by my Richard Ruiz MSFT. 1) Install all prerequisites (e.g. MMC 3.0, etc.) and SCCM 2007 Console natively on your clean WinXP workstation, to the exact location you will be sequencing to. 2...(read more)

The App-V Blog : Help, my package is too big!

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:10:47 GMT

If you sequence enough applications in either SoftGrid or MS App-V you'll eventually run into the issue where your sequenced package is too large to be saved. We're limited to a 4GB file size so if you have an application that is...(read more)

Learning to live in harmony with the SCCM and App-V Clients

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:57:11 GMT

http://blog.stealthpuppy.com/virtualisation/learning-to-live-in-harmony-with-the-sccm-and-app-v-clients Read More......(read more)

Upgrading to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Frequently Asked Questions

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:25:48 GMT

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/appvirtualization/cc664494.aspx Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 RTMs!

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:22:27 GMT

Trying to shed the “Softgrid" name, App-V RTMs. Note that Softgrid is only mentioned once in the entire App-V Team blog post. http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2008/09/03/microsoft-application-virtualization-4-5-rtms.aspx Read More...(read more)

The Application Virtualization article to end all articles

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:25:28 GMT

InfoWorld has produced a great article for anyone who wants to get up-to-speed on Application Virtualization: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/21/34TC-appv-extreme_1.html Read More......(read more)

Advanced App-V (SoftGrid) Training Fall 2008

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:52:46 GMT

Public course in Calgary the week of October 20th: http://www.bighatgroup.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=34 Offerings on September 8th and November 17th: http://www.tmurgent.com/Training/Schedule...(read more)

App-V ADM Template Now Available on Connect!

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:04:12 GMT

The App-V team is excited to make available a RC version of our App-V 4.5 ADM template. It has just been posted over on the Microsoft Connect site ( http://connect.microsoft.com ). The template focus is on registry settings that are well suited to controlling...(read more)

New RC version of App-V Desktop Client and Management Server

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:22:56 GMT

The new build number for each component is 4.5.0.1308 and is available for download from the Connect site ( connect.microsoft.com ). Read More......(read more)

Using App-V RC? You need a new version of Process Monitor

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:53:19 GMT

J.C. Hornbeck talks about needing the latest version of Process Monitor to be able to continue capturing virtualize registry access. http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2008/07/01/new-process-monitor-version-that-supports-the-rc-version-of-app-v...(read more)

Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides released

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:04:19 GMT

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide...(read more)

Enable Streaming from File in SoftGrid 4.5

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:48:33 GMT

From Aaron Parker’s blog … The default behaviour of the SoftGrid Application Virtualisation 4.5 client is to not allow applications to be streamed from a file, i.e. streaming an application from a local OSD file rather than from the server. If you...(read more)

Microsoft Application Virtualization (Softgrid) gets an even newer name – kind of

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:30:50 GMT

App-V is the new moniker being bestowed upon the twice named product. I guess this goes right in line with the whole Hyper-V thing. Why is this important? J.C. Hornbeck explains… …the Softgrid blog will eventually go from being the SoftGrid...(read more)

New myITforum.com specific functionality added to the System Center Windows Vista search gadget

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:14:04 GMT

Microsoft has added some new functionality for myITforum’ers into their System Center Windows Vista Search Gadget today. Now pages from the articles section of myITforum.com ( http://www.myitforum.com/articles/* ) will be returned in search results...(read more)

InstallAware First Install Builder to Support Windows Installer 4.5

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:31:28 GMT

Interesting quote from the article… "Microsoft had selected InstallAware as a launch partner on their first-ever coupled beta program - for the beta 1 milestone of Windows Installer 4.5 in October 2007," says Agustín K-ballo Bergé, Vice President...(read more)

MS Application Virtualization: New Group Policy ADM template to be available with the 4.5 Release Candidate

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:03:57 GMT

Source: The SoftGrid Team Blog There’s been a lot of interest in whether we are releasing a supported Group Policy Administrative (ADM) Template file with Application Virtualization 4.5. Happily, the answer is “yes”! Our ADM Template will be made available...(read more)