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SoftGrid is now Microsoft Application Virtualization

I hope you have tried out SoftGrid (part of the cool MDOP package) - but, now we gotta start using a new name: "Microsoft Application Virtualization" - or actually "System Center Application Virtualization Management System "…

We all know the Microsoft way of doing this by now: buy the technology/product, start selling with the good old (well known) name, change the name - and some would add: then, as the very last part of the process, change the naming within the code, like "Softricity" folder names, service names etc. (as they often "forget" about this).

Nevertheless a Public Beta version is available for the NEW version 4.5 (most have 4.2 out there I guess). The Beta is available from Microsoft Connect - just sign up and as to participate in the "Application Virtualization 4.5 Public Beta".

You then ask: what’s the new stuff? First of all we of course have a lot of bugfixes, but you also have new and cool functionality worth a lot of nice words - but I’m afraid it’s gonna be another time, sorry.

However, check these links:
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Beta –

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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Starter GPO’s - what are they?

With Windows Server 2008 (Codename Longhorn) you will notice a new container called “Starter GPOs” inside the GPMC (version 2.0 - BTW this version will also be available as a separate download for Windows Vista with SP1).

This new container can hold what I would call “templates” for creating new GPO’s - with the limitation that only Administrative Template settings are available. When creating new GPO’s you can choose to use a Starter GPO as the source (read: template) - which makes it easy and fast to create multiple GPO’s with the same baseline configuration.

But, the very cool thing is that you can now “export” those GPO templates (Starter GPO’s) to a Cabinet file (.CAB) and then import into another environment - completely independent of the source domain/forest! So, you can create the PERFECT Starter GPO and then bring it around the world, share it on the Internet (if legal?), deploy it on all systems you can get a hold on etc. etc.

When you ‘enable’ Starter GPO’s in the domain for the first time, a folder called “StarterGPOs” is created inside the SYSVOL folder (\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\StarterGPOs) - this is where all the “magic” is done… For

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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