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Application Management

• Microsoft announces Application Virtualization 4.5

  On the 12th of November Microsoft announced the Beta release of Application Virtualization 4.5 - the new name of Microsoft SoftGrid.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Application Virtualization (previous known as SoftGrid) Visio stencils.

  Michael Burke created some useful and nice Microsoft Application Virtualization symbols for MS Visio.  Continue Reading

• SoftGrid Infrastructure Planning and Design guide

  Microsoft is creating Infrastructure planning and design guides for SoftGrid and Windows Server Virtualization.Infrastructure and planning is the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA)I have downloaded and scanned the ...  Continue Reading

• Good-bye Ardence. Hello Citrix Provisioning Server.

  Last week Citrix officially changed the name of their Ardence Server product to Citrix Provisioning Server. It appears that the product itself hasn't changed at all.  Continue Reading

• A Solution To Child Zombie Processes Keeping Sessions Open

  There are several scenarios where a published application can cause a "session" to not terminate properly due to open child processes. The most common of these is a Citrix Published Application which then keeps the user session open on the server ...  Continue Reading

• Is "Profile Management" enough, or is it time for "User Environment Management?"

  I had a phone call yesterday with Pete Rawlinson and Martin Ingram of AppSense. They talked about how their focus as a company is evolving away from tactical things like performance and security and profile management and into the more broad "User ...  Continue Reading

• InfoWorld published a nice article about 'Application Virtualisation', SVS Pro, Thinstall & SoftGrid

  Randell C. Kennedy wrote a nice article about Altiris SVS Pro, SoftGrid and Thinstall.In mine opinion Application Virtualisation is a key component for a dynamic application and desktop delivery infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Application and Desktop delivery solutions scheme

  We created an 'Application and Desktop solutions' infrastructure scheme. This scheme is useful to explain the application and desktop delivery solutions and there integration with each other.  Continue Reading

• Citrix and Microsoft join forces against VMware...at VMworld 2007!

  This morning at VMworld, Microsoft and Citrix flipped a bird to VMware at their own conference and announced that they will be standardizing their platform virtualization efforts on Microsoft's VHD disk image file format.  Continue Reading

• MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization, FAQ

  Microsoft created a FAQ about a new to release utility. The MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization enables the distribution of virtual applications without streaming!  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Trial Guide

  Microsoft created a trial guide for Microsoft SoftGrid. When SoftGrid is a new solution for you this guide is a must read,before start ;-)This 36 page guide is very helpfull with just the basic steps for setting up your SoftGrid environment.  Continue Reading

• SoftGrid Training

  Last spring, Kevin Kaminski and I started up GridMasterTraining.com.  Continue Reading

• New: Microsoft Community forums

  Microsoft created 3 new SoftGrid Forums at the Techcenter on Technet.Both Microsoft internal and community veterans are being called to interact on these forums.  Continue Reading

• Share your Application, Desktop delivery and Hardware Virtualization RSS feeds

  The usage of RSS feeds is very useful for us as IT-Pro's. With these feeds the most actual information of community forms, blogs, corporate sites is published real-time to you.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SoftGrid 4.2 available

  This week Microsoft released the latest version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance (MDOP)  Continue Reading