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• Guide to configuring Microsoft App-V to both publish and stream via HTTP

  This post explains how to configure Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) to both publish and stream applications using HTTP. For the purpose of this document we will be setting up a brand new Windows 2008 R2 server to offer these functions and... Posted Dec 02 2010, 09:18 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, Guide, streaming, App-V 4.5, App-V 4.6, HTTP

• Application Virtualization 4.5 for Terminal Services white paper available for download

  We are proud to announce the availability of the white paper “Application Virtualization 4.5 for Terminal Services.”  This white paper discusses the benefits, configurations, and considerations when planning a Terminal Services (TS) solution with... Posted Oct 21 2009, 02:26 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: whitepaper, Terminal Server, Documentation, download, Best Practices, 4.5, Guide, Microsoft application Virtualization

• App-V 4.5 Remote Console Configuration Guide

  If you have ever tried to setup an App-V Remote Management Console or upgraded your existing 4.1 SoftGrid environment to App-V 4.5 just to have the Remote Management Console stop working this post is for you. Lately we have received a number support calls... Posted Apr 21 2009, 08:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, 4.5, Guide, App-V

• Where to find the App-V Documentation

  We’ve received some feedback that people may be unfamiliar with the location of the App-V 4.5 documentation, so if you’re wondering what documentation exists for the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 products and where to find this on Technet,... Posted Mar 31 2009, 10:22 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: case study, Client, Documentation, Best Practices, 4.5, Guide, manual, App-V

• APP-V FLASH: Content Update and Availability

  Here's a quick summary of the latest Microsoft Application Virtualization news and downloads for October, including the download for the 4.5 desktop client, case studies, new whitepapers and last but not least, a new home for SoftGrid App-V on the... Posted Oct 14 2008, 07:49 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: TechNet, Virtualization, case study, Best Practices, 4.5, Guide, Sequencing, Microsoft application Virtualization, App-V

• App-V Technical Content Update

  During our RTM announcement we identified a series a whitepapers that would be available throughout the course of September.  The first wave of papers is complete and available here on the App-V TechCenter.  New whitepapers will be added and... Posted Sep 22 2008, 08:16 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, 4.5, Guide, App-V

• TechNet Magazine for October 2008 - All About Virtualization

  In case you missed the announcement over on the Virtual World blog , the October issue of TechNet Magazine is now posted online and contains an article focused specifically on Microsoft Application Virtualization.  But that's not all as it also... Posted Sep 18 2008, 05:27 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, 4.5, Guide, App-V

• The Top Three Rookie Mistakes - Part 3

  So far in this series we've talked about failing to create and share your Content folder and we've talked about specifying the Default Content Path .  In the last installment of the series we're going to talk about defining the %SFT_SOFTGRIDSERVER... Posted Sep 15 2008, 08:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, App-V

• The Top Three Rookie Mistakes - Part 2

  A few days ago I started a three part series covering the top gotchas new SoftGrid Admins tend to run into with a short discussion on configuring the Content folder for your virtualized applications.  Today I want to talk about specifying the Default... Posted Sep 08 2008, 10:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, App-V

• The Top Three Rookie Mistakes - Part 1

  As the popularity of Microsoft SoftGrid/App-V continues to accelerate at a record pace, it seems that there's an ever-increasing number of folks who are new to SoftGrid and anxious to jump right in and stream their first virtual app.  While overall... Posted Aug 28 2008, 01:51 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, App-V

• SoftGrid/App-V: Using Virtualization to Fix Compatibility Issues

  A big advantage to SoftGrid or App-V is that you can run it on a Terminal Server - something some lesser application virtualization products don't do.  Being able to run on Terminal Server offers several critical advantages but it also leads... Posted Aug 27 2008, 03:59 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, Sequencing, App-V

• How to migrate the SoftGrid Server and the associated accounts to a new domain/forest

  This useful tip on moving to a new domain comes from Paul Freitas, one of our top gun support engineers out in Charlotte, North Carolina: ======== Say a SoftGrid Server is running in a production environment and the domain in which it operates is being... Posted Aug 21 2008, 07:38 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, Microsoft application Virtualization, App-V

• App-V: The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide

  I came across this the other day and thought that a lot of you would find it useful so here you go.  If you haven't seen this before, it's part of a series of planning and design guides that clarify and streamline the planning and design... Posted Jun 30 2008, 08:50 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, Guide, App-V

• Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid) Post Installation Tasks

  We get a lot of questions about what you need to do after installing a 4.x SoftGrid Virtual Application Server (VAS, or would that be Microsoft Application Virtualization Virtual Application Server?  I digress...) so I thought I'd post a couple of... Posted Apr 02 2008, 12:14 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, Microsoft application Virtualization

• SoftGrid Upgrade: General guidance and recommended practices

  We received a number of questions regarding the upgrade process of the various SoftGrid components, so I thought I’d post some general guidelines and recommended best practices we usually try to follow. This information was originally compiled for... Posted Mar 25 2008, 08:21 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: upgrade, Best Practices, Guide

• MCS Sequencing Guidelines

  Hello everyone. We are happy to announce some additional guidance on Sequencing with Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization from our friends over at Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). These people work day in and day out with our customers on... Posted Feb 05 2008, 10:29 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, Sequencing

• SoftGrid Operations Guide - Part 2

  As promised, here's part 2 of Brian Kelly's SoftGrid Operations Guide: ====== 3.3 Remove a Specific Application from a SoftGrid Client PC The following procedure describes how to remove a specific application package from the SoftGrid cache on a client... Posted Nov 14 2007, 09:49 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, manual, Microsoft application Virtualization

• SoftGrid Operations Guide - Part 1

  Brian Kelly, one of our top gun SoftGrid tech guru's, recently put together a really cool SoftGrid operations guide that covers day-to-day procedures for managing and operating the SoftGrid infrastructure.  Well, I guess technically it would now... Posted Nov 13 2007, 05:56 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, manual, Microsoft application Virtualization

• Scripting within an OSD file

  I noticed some posts on the SoftGrid Forums lately that could be addressed with some useful scripting with the .OSD files for a SoftGrid package. Scripting within .OSD files is a very powerful feature and can be used to solve or create workarounds for... Posted Oct 11 2007, 05:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide, OSD

• Getting to the root of the 8.3 Root

  An interesting conversation came up in the lunch room today that I thought deserved a good blog for clarification. As you may well be aware, one of the “best practices” for Sequencing an application is to have the application install itself during the... Posted Oct 04 2007, 08:04 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, Guide

• List of Applications That Can Be Virtualized

  "Can you send me a list of all the applications that can be successfully virtualized using Microsoft SoftGrid?" "Can AppX be successfully virtualized using Microsoft SoftGrid?" If I had a nickel for every time I got one of these two questions...... Don... Posted Sep 27 2007, 07:32 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, Guide, manual

• Methods for Upgrading or Updating Virtualized Applications

  In the current SoftGrid implementation, there are three distinct methods of providing users with an updated version of an existing SoftGrid application. This article will review the three methods and the associated benefits and considerations. When discussing... Posted Sep 25 2007, 09:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, Guide

• Advanced Sequencing Techniques Part 2 - Creating a Web Based Application

  “A VE for IE” If an organization has applications that are web based it is possible to use the Sequencer to create a Virtual Environment for these applications. Although it is not possible to Sequence all base operating system applications, such as Internet... Posted Sep 18 2007, 08:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Softgrid, Best Practices, Guide

• Documentation Set for Microsoft SoftGrid 4.x

  This may be old news to some of you but if you haven't seen the SoftGrid Documentation Set that we published you'll want to check it out. It's published as Knowledge Base article 940163 and includes the following documents: • SoftGrid Client Installation... Posted Aug 28 2007, 08:10 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Best Practices, Guide, manual