Proudly I can announce that the version of WordPress is upgraded from version 2.9.2 to 3.0!

For a detailed explanation of the upgrade, please follow this link.

The official announcement can be found here.

Explorer features listed below wont work with Streamed applications:
1. Right click on File Explorer and select “Send to Mail Recipient”
2. Right click a Office Document on File Explorer and say “Edit, Print, Open or New”
3. Most of the features on explorer, except FTA (FTA coming thought XenApp Server)
4. Any 3rd party app doing some content display using explorer.exe

So is there a workaround for the above items? Yes!

On Windows 7, we can launch multiple Explorer.exes and get our work done. Publish an Application (as part of profile) which will do an operation similar to “explorer.exe /n” on the client to launch explorer.exe inside isolation. I’m launching explorer from and isolated command prompt as shown below.

We can use all the context menu options including Send to mail Recipient, once we launch explorer, you can even observe “Open, New, Edit and Print” for Office Documents, which was earlier only possible if we had locally installed apps. Below image is of Streamed explorer and streamed office!

All the context menu items will now with Streamed applications as well. As the explorer can be launched inside isolation, using other streamed 3rd party applications will also have better experience for users while using Streaming.

A new product category will be added to your WSUS server under the Microsoft Application Virtualization family, entitled Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5. The Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 category will allow all classifications of updates to be offered to the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 product.  You will see this new category when new updates are available for this product.

You should sync the Microsoft Application Virtualization family if you have these products in your managed environment. For additional information about Microsoft Application Virtualization see:http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx.

We also have some additional information on the App-V log files here:

Troubleshooting App-V with log files

KB931803 – Log options for SoftGrid Client 4.x

KB930871 – How to interpret the messages in the SoftGrid Virtual Application Server log

You can find the Proof of Concept here.

The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is required for sequencing and deploying Office 2010 client products with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). This kit includes the components required for Office license activation.

This product must be installed on the App-V sequencing station prior to monitoring the Office 2010 client installation.

This product must also be installed on the client machines to which virtualized Office 2010 client packages will be deployed. It can be configured to enable certain system components to interact with virtualized Office 2010, including:

• Fast search in virtualized Outlook 2010 using Windows Desktop Search
• Ability for virtualized Office 2010 applications to open, edit, and save Office files hosted with Windows SharePoint
• Search indexing support for Office file types
• URL protocol redirection to virtualized Outlook 2010
• Print to virtualized OneNote 2010
• Mail control panel applet for virtualized Outlook 2010

For all the details and to download the deployment kit see this link.

Additional Information:

The Office 2010 App-V RTM Recipe is available as a KB article here:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983462

The Office 2010 App-v Deployment kit is available from the Microsoft Download center athttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=479f12f2-5678-493e-bce1-682b3ece5431

There are some really handy features in this tool;

• No App-V infrastructure required for application testing
• File streaming capabilities into App-V client
• Launch Application from inside the GUI
• Launch troubleshooting tools inside the application’s virtual environment
• Create manifest files for SCCM and 3rd party delivery software integration
• Edit OSD files safely
• Create “dynamic suite compositions” with the click of a button
• Import registry files into the OSD file
• Restore OSD files to previous save points
• App-V 4.6 support

I have been using it for some time. And there are some cool items such as osd restore points for the times when you played with the OSD a little bit too much.

Give the beta a shot….

Download here  

I think it’s really good to see that Microsoft is putting a lot of effort in making the Sequencing process more easy. And this is a step in the right direction. But there is still a lot they can and probably will improve in this area…