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Release Software and Agent Licences for Symantec Workspace Streaming
Scot Curry | 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

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.

While SWS is a great solution for these environments, there are some challenges that arise in these environments. The primary challenge is that SWS caches metadata about the licenses policies as well as binaries required by the application on the local machine. In the case of streamed OS environments, this information is not normally saved off when the system shuts down.

Because the cache is not available the next time the OS is streamed down the SWS streaming agent does not communicate back to the server that the applications is installed with the correct policies on the machine, so if a users request the application again, another license for the same...

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A Case Study in Scientific Application Streaming at Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Brad | 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

This is a great case study from Intel on Harvard using SVS Pro for app distribution in the engineering school - very cool.

The goal of the scientific application streaming project, as outlined in this white paper, is to simplify the deployment of engineering and scientific applications to a user population of around 1,000 students and faculty.

Large, complex scientific and engineering applications are being deployed over a heterogeneous network architecture to a highly diverse client population. Initial results show install times decreasing from hours to minutes, as well as fewer problems caused by human error during complex installation and licensing procedures.

As innovators among Harvard's IT community, the CI Labs anticipates wider implementation of application...

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Layers Saved the Day
trb48 | 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

I work at a two year College. Before every semester I reimage all of the computers the students will be using. This semester I decided to jump feet first into software virtualization. That's right, almost every piece of software on the computer into a virtual layer. We are talking between 15 and 25 layers.

I wanted to move as much software as I could to layers for many reasons. The biggest was to eventually move everyone over to SVS Pro. I figured that if I knew the layers worked that I knew that they would stream.

On the first day of school I started to get very frantic calls. People from all over campus complained that when they double clicked on a Word document OpenOffice opened. After some quick checking I determined that I did not make my OpenOffice layer correctly. It was set as the default document software...

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Flexnet Licensing Errors Trying to Virtualize Adobe CS3 Design
CV | 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

Create a single layer for Adobe CS3 through Windows command prompt by doing the following.

Open SVS Admin Console. Click on File > Create New Layer > Install Application > Give Layer Name > Single Program Capture and browse to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe. This will launch Windows Command Processor.

When the Windows Command Processor window opens, SVS will start capture mode. At that point either drag and drop setup.exe file for Adobe CS3 into the Windows command processor or browse from within CMD window to the location of setup.exe for CS3 and start the installation process. Choose which applications from CS3 you want to install.

Once the installation process for Adobe CS3 is done, click Finish.

Important: Do not close the Windows Command Processor window...
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The Streaming Process Has Completed But the Progress Indicator Remains at 100%
Gene Kupfer | 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

Why does this happen?

Some applications start a background process while streaming and the streaming dialog box never closes, remaining at 100%

What to do now?

The streaming product has a function called LongLived which can be used to watch for these processes and close the streaming progress dialog at completion.

First we need to identify which process is responsible for preventing the streaming from ending. You can do this by opening the Windows task manager and look for a processes that probably has a name that is relevant to the application. In most cases this will be true, but for the times it is not you will need to identify it by monitoring the processes on the system at time of streaming to see which processes are started. You can end the task on the process and if you have the...

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Cleaning Up the SVS Professional Portal
Scot Curry | 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

SVS Professional provides a self service application portal. A recurring requests is to minimize the number of icons that are shown for an application in the portal view. An application will often have links to help and readme type files which in reality just clutter up the portal.

As an administrator you have the option of provisioning packages to users and groups, but not populating either the package or a desktop icon. In these cases users can obtain these packages through a trip to the portal.

SVS Professional provides the capability to limit the number of icons that show up on in the portal to a single icon. To accomplish this use the following steps in the SVS Professional Streaming Composer.

  • After importing the package (this works with any type of package except a...
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Update: AAConsole 2008 (V2.5.5)
FrankB | 29 Jul 2010 | 2 comments

As promised, we have added some extra features. One of those promises was Custom Icons.

We've implemented that now:

Click to see full picture.

Click to see full picture..

As you see there are Global and Per Layer Icon settings possible.

Download the new version here.

Have Fun, FrankB

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Symantec Shapes Its Virtualization Strategy
trb48 | 29 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

I was browsing the web and found this great article:

Symantec shapes its virtualization strategy. I did a quick Google search and found this web site: nSuite, the company discussed in the article. The future is looking good for system admins. I can't wait to see what else Symantec does to make my life better.

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AAConsole V2.5.0.0 [Updated]
FrankB | 29 Jul 2010 | 3 comments

V2.5.0.0
New: Major Gui Redesign
Fix: Rename layer
New: Layer Tooltips

How Does it work:

When starting it checks if you're a Administrative user and allows the program.
It also checks if you're an Corporate user, and will switch off some options.
It'll check if you are using Altiris Virtual Software Solution V2.1.2083 or higher, lower and it will tell you to update with the possibility to click on a Link towards the download at Altiris.

Here Goes:

Activate Layer
Deactivate layer
Reset Layer
...

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What's the difference between Activate and "Start layer automatically"?
Scott Jones | 29 Jul 2010 | 4 comments

Q:
Lincoln asked, "we have OnPostActivate events in our layers, but they never run unless you manually de-activate and then re-activate the layers. All of our layers are set to start automatically. Shouldn't the OnPostActivate events run when SVS starts the layer during windows boot-up?"

A:
Lincoln, you've hit on a common misunderstanding caused by the language we use in the SVS Admin interface. The menu item "Start layer automatically" is actually a typo/mistake that never got corrected and has become institutionalized. It implies that there is some sort of "start" event for the layer. But there's not. It's supposed to say, "Set as Active on Start". "Active on Start" (meaning Windows start, not the layer or SVS start) is the correct technical term. (Trinket got it right, btw.) It means as Windows is booting, the layer is visible to the system ("active"). So there's never an...

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