By Shawn Bass on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:45:44 AM

Justin Zarb (MS) recently published a blog entry that Microsoft is now able to virtualize fonts on Terminal Server using the fairly new SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Client.  This is great news as it use to be a PITA to need to push font installs to a base system before deploying virtualized apps that relied on those fonts being present.  That being said, I really wish that Microsoft would publish a full change log of things that are in each client/sequencer release.  It's unfortunate that these things have to be discovered through blogs instead of a nice readme.

By Shawn Bass on Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:38:23 AM

The SoftGrid Team has put up a blog entry explaining a bug in the management console that causes it to crash when it processes icons that are non-symmetrical pixels (i.e. not square).  Here's a link to the KB article with the details.  Unfortunately, there's not a fix for the console.  You just need to make your icons symmetrical.  Then again, there shouldn't be all that many icons that are affected by this issue.

By Shawn Bass on Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:55:54 AM

The SoftGrid Team blog published an entry today that describes the three methods for upgrading Softgrid applications.  The three types are:

1) Active Upgrade - You open the existing package up in the sequencer, install your updates and add the package version to the Management Console.  New launch requests for the package will begin using the new version.
2) Completely new sequence - You build a completely new sequence.  The new sequence will need to be streamed down to new clients, but a client can run both versions simultaneously.  The downside is the user preferences from the old version of the app are not carried into the new package.
3) Branched package - You approach a branched package like an ActiveUpgrade, only you perform a Save As function which will create a separate package GUID and asset folder.  This operates like a completely new se ... Read More »