Have you ever thought about bringing your SWV packaged layers into a cloud solution?

Without the need to stream them over slow internet connections?

Now that DinamiQs released DinamiQs SMART 3.1.3038 we are also about to release our Hybrid Cloud portal that enables company's to take the most advantage of Symantec Workspace Virtualization.

The DinamiQs hybrid Cloud portal enables you to publish Symantec SWV packages into the cloud for a full seamless experience. Just like you can do with Citrix Xenapp, but without the need to install and manage Terminal servers or Xenapp servers.

DinamiQs now offers you the ability to use SWV applications in a published Windows 7 desktop to facilitate all applications.

How does it work?

• Create a Windows 7 Virtualised desktop.
• Setup the DinamiQS Resourcepool allocator that ebales administrator sto alway's have enough clones available as the system automatically clones new...

The Symantec Vision 2011 clock is counting down fast, and May will be here before you know it. Here are a few new tips and suggestions for making the very most of the conference in Las Vegas:

• Be sure to plan your week at Vision. The online Session Scheduler is ready and available for all registered Vision attendees, but anyone can check out the Session Catalog to review what is being offered. Popular sessions fill up quickly, so sign up for the technical tracks, sessions, and hands-on labs while openings are still available. You're free to make changes to your schedule anytime, so reserve your spot in the sessions you want most, knowing you can update your agenda, as needed.
• Get...

Those of you looking at deploying Outlook 2010 on your systems will need to be aware that outlook captured on XP will not run on Win7 or visa-versa.

The reason is that Outlook 2010 has a fundamentally different install for XP and Win7, so if you need to support both OSs you'll have to capture Outlook 2010 twice--once for XP and once for Win7.  Note: You can still capture 32-bit outlook on either Win7 versions and it will run when you move it to a different architecture.

Another note is PST and OST corruption with Outlook 2007, though it's recommended to do the following for Office 2010.  You'll need to add the following Exclude entries to the layer [APPDATA] w/subdir and [LOCALAPPDATA] w/subdir.  Keen eyed users will realized that this will prevent reset from really working as intended, because all the user data will be excluded from the layer, so those of you that want to avoid that reset issue can exclude the following file types from your...

There are often times where I want to modify either the read-only or writeable portion of a Workspace Virtualization layer.  One of the things that makes this challenging is that the sublayer values are assigned when the layer is imported.  I have found that I have to keep recreating a script to find the layers magic number.  I have decided to finally write the blog post so I don't have to rewrite this script every time.

I hope this helps someone in the future.

Option Explicit

Dim layerName, strComputer, objWMIService, selectStatement, colItems, layerGuid
Dim thisLayer, registryPath, filePath, readOnlyMagicNumber, writeableMagicNumber
' Check to make sure there is a layer name on the command line.
If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
 WScript.Echo "You must specify a layer name on the command line"
 WScript.Quit
End If

' Get the Layer Name from the commandline
...