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I was asked by my company to create a 2-day training for SWV for an end user company. The training needed to enable the end user company to make simple packages, clean them and deploy them.

That got me thinking... what do you actually do when creating a package. Explaining to the IT people of the company to simply "install, but first turn on recording" would be a little to easy and lazy. Is that really what we do when packaging?

Then again... Isn't it really what we do?

So this is how I build up the training:

1. Day 1 morning: Theory about packages: What do they contain. Why Read Only and Read Write, registry and files (a nice four segmented diagram helps here). What does an installation actually attempt to do and what does Symantec SWV do with it? Version control on packages.
2. Day 1 afternoon: Practical use: Make some packages. Let them test amongst each other. Simple but neat packages, like FireFox, Notepad ++, nothing...

IrfanView is a image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files. It allows to open a wide variety of image formats and displays thumbnail file previews, allowing picture organization and management.

Some IrfanView features:

    Many supported file formats
    Multi language support
    Thumbnail/preview option
    Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
    Toolbar skins option
    Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
    Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
    Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
    Fast directory view (moving through directory)
    Batch conversion (with advanced image processing)
    Multipage TIF...

Need to copy large folders form one network folder to another location? Here a nice tool that compare files and folders and copy only changed files.

The tool called Copy Changed Files has a a simple interface to copy files from one location to another using using filters or comparison criteria based on date and time or binary compare option.

Main Features

• Copy changed files only
• Binary comparison of files using a database of file hashes.
• Save last run time, for incremental backup of changed files only
• Multi threaded
• Append current date to destination directory or file for easy version maintenance
• Set from directory
• Set to directory
• Set the from date, to scan for files changed after that date
• Compare date AND time
• Maintain directory structure in destination directory
• Exclude files from copying, ex. thumbs.db

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Customers who use Symantec Workspace Virtualization can choose between the Standard Version or the Pro Version that includes streaming. Between SWV and SWV Pro you can also use SMART. And there is a new version available that you can use to centraly manage your applications, and give the end user some control on his layers like activate, de-activate and reset.

The new version can be downloaded from our website or you can send me a message and I will ensure you get a version.

Just like SWV, DinamiQs SMART is free for home and personal use. In the world of VDI DinamiQs has set new standards for speed, efficiency and end-user experience. Part of the DinamiQs VDI stack is S.M.A.R.T., which has developed into a full fledged Desktop and Software management application.

The S.M.A.R.T. software helps end-users access those applications that they are entitled to. S.M.A.R.T. allows self-service and self-repair of these –packaged applications....