I was just working with a customer who asked me what I thought was a simple question: "I have run the Symantec Workspace Streaming agent on all of my clients. Every time I go to the SWS Portal is keeps asking me to install the agent. Why is that?"
Start with Symantec Workspace Corporate 6.1 MP3, we have started to expand the functions of our proximity card reader technology. I use the PcProx cards from RFIdeas, and this post may only apply to these specific cards, but I hope it helps someone in the future.
Being part of the Symantec Endpoint Virtualization team gives me a lot of exposure to all types of virtualization projects. I am starting to get involved with more and more of what I call Phase II VDI (VMware View / Citrix XenDesktop) projects. Most customers are struggling to get Phase I project widely implemented because of the cost of servers and storage. In Phase II they a
I have been spending a fair amount of time with Symantec Workspace Profiles the past couple of weeks. The tool uses Microsoft roaming profiles as its foundation. As you probably know roaming profiles can be configured using GPO's or it can be configured manually. I didn't really understand how the manual configuration was implemented so I went to dev to find out.&nbs
All Symantec customers who have licenses for Client Management Suite 7 now have access to the Software Virtualization agent. There are customers who are in the process of planning their migration to CMS 7 but want to get started with Software Virtualization today.
I recently virtualized Mathmatica. Besides being a large appliation that took a fair amount of time to create it seemed to work well. It did require the use of the CopyFonts tool.
Hope this saves you a couple of minutes in the future.
Hi Connect Packagers. I have agreed to speak at the San Diego Endpoint Management & Security User group. They have asked me to talk about Advanced Packaging topics.
There are a couple of things that come to mind: Driver Installation, Self Registration (DON'T DO IT), Upgrades and Patches.
While I hope this post is never needed, it will be very valuable if you do need it. If you ever lock yourself out of the Configuration and Management console of the Symantec Streaming Console server, there is a work around.
As we all know a lot of processing takes place when a user logs on to a system. In order to make the user experience as pleasant as possible many administrators delay certain processes from running at logon time.
We have come across customers who are using OS Streaming technologies (Ardence from Citrix) in their environments. Symantec Workspace Streaming is an ideal tool for these environments because it provisions applications based on user authentication, so the applications do not need to be added to the streamed OS image.
