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• Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 3: Using TechSmith Camtasia Studio 6.1

  Welcome to Part 3 of this series on recording video recipes for documenting your App-V sequences. In Part 1 of this series I gave you an introduction to the idea of using video to document your Sequencing. This time, I am going to use TechSmith Camtasia... Posted Apr 08 2009, 02:36 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, 4.5, Sequencing, App-V

• Creating Video Recipes for Sequencing Documentation – Part 2: Using OfficeLabs Community Clips

  In Part 1 of this series I gave you an introduction to the idea of using video to document your Sequencing. In this article, I will walk you through using Community Clips to capture the video of your sequencing. Community Clips was one of the first projects... Posted Mar 25 2009, 01:11 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, 4.5, Sequencing, App-V

• Creating "Video Recipes" for Sequencing Documentation - Part 1: Introduction

  As a Support Engineer for SoftGrid and App-V, a question that I ask a lot from my customers is "Can I take a look at the documentation you used or created for this sequence?" Most of the time the answer is that no such documentation exists.... Posted Mar 05 2009, 07:10 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, 4.5, Sequencing, App-V

• Sequencing applications that require a reboot

  If you've ever tried sequencing an application that has an installation program that requires a reboot you may have run into this dilemma - How do you restart the computer if you're running the sequencer to capture the installation actions? ... Posted Oct 08 2008, 08:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Sequencing

• 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

• SoftGrid: Sequencing Office Professional 2007 in 30 easy steps

  We tend to see more issues with sequencing Office than any other product so I decided to put together a quick step by step on how I do it.  I needed to create another package for another project anyway so figured why not.  My hope is that this... Posted Jul 30 2008, 05:36 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Softgrid, Best Practices, Sequencing

• 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

• 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

• 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