We have made the move to SVS for MS Office products and a few others. We are using the Task server for our Helpdesk team to deploy and manage the software in real-time after approval.

Our process has been working well and we wanted to share.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/article/3714/put-your-task-server-work-svs-style

Here's a tool that enables you to Activate/Deactivate/Reset/Delete SVS packages remotely. You'll also like the functionality that makes it possible to force the update status of the Altiris Agent from a Notification Server.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/download/3764/hta-based-tool-svs-enables-remote-management

The final thing we needed to provide our Helpdesk team was a way to go to the end user's machine and manage SVS layers locally via USB. As stated before, no end user in our environment has the SVS Admin console installed.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/article/3760/arming-your-helpdesk-manage-svs-packages-part-3-3-managing-svs-layers-with-usb-stick

Last week I posted a tool that allowed for easy exporting and importing of SVS global excludes. But what if you have one layer that needs to ignore those excludes? Should you just not use global excludes?

In situations like this SVS provides a way to set layers to ignore the global exclude list. However, this isn't easy to find -- it's only in SVSadmin hidden away as a small checkbox on the "Exclude" tab. For those looking for an easy solution I've written a small tool that will allow you to set a layer to ignore the global exclude.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/download/3796/svsglobalexignore

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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 the main tasks here.  We also see a lot of calls come in from folks who forget to do these things so if you're ever faced with installing a new server you'll definitely want to keep these in mind.  Failure to do these post installation tasks probably means your SoftGrid server isn't going to work:

• Verify that the SQL Server Service is started and set to Automatic
• Verify that the SoftGrid Virtual Application Server Service is started and set to Automatic
• Share the content folder giving at least read permissions to Everyone. If you need to change these settings for security purposes please make sure that the System account has at least read permissions to the content folder and share
• Set the Default Content Path in the System Options within the management console. Make sure you type the UNC path to the content folder
• Verify in the Default Provider that under the group Assignment you have the group(s) that you want to publish applications to
• Verify in IIS that the installation created the SoftGrid Management virtual pool
• Verify the Credentials for the account specified to browse the Directory. This is located in the Account Authorities section.

As long as you keep these things in mind your journey with Microsoft Application Virtual should be smooth sailing.

Alvin Morales | Manageability Support Engineer

Read more at: http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-application-virtualization-softgrid-post-installation-tasks.aspx

Last week I posted a tool that allowed for easy exporting and importing of SVS global excludes. But what if you have one layer that needs to ignore those excludes? Should you just not use global excludes?

In situations like this SVS provides a way to set layers to ignore the global exclude list. However, this isn't easy to find -- it's only in SVSadmin hidden away as a small checkbox on the "Exclude" tab. For those looking for an easy solution I've written a small tool that will allow you to set a layer to ignore the global exclude.

read more

Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/download/3796/svsglobalexignore