If using Intel vPro Technology has caused you to say - "Wouldn't it be cool if the technology did...."   

There is much the underlying technology and firmware is capable of doing.   The Symantec Management Platform with Out-of-Band Management focuses on a majority of the manageability features.   Yet there are more features around security, virtualization... and further manageability... in the platform.   Plus, there are more ideas and requests coming from customers, partners, and so forth.  

Did you know there is a public forum to post or review ideas?  Take a look at http://ideazone.software.intel.com/communities/intel-vpro-technology/ideas/recent

There's been a minor update to the behavior of applying a Layer Patch Archive (VPA) in Symantec Workspace Virtualization 6.1 SP1.  When you apply a VPA to a layer either in place or new layer with the option to port over the user SID areas any link files (.LNK) in the Read-Write Sub-layer will get deleted.

We made this change because of how certain applications behaved when applying updates. In some instances new shortcuts were laid down up the update or the location old ones were pointing at changed, which would cause a conflict between the updated Read-Only Sub-layer and the old information in the Read-Write Sub-Layer.

For the most part this change should be transparent to everyone as the only scenario where you're not going to have all the LNK files in the Read-Only Sub-layer is when you have a custom shortcut in the Read-Write Sub-layer.

This change only affects the Apply Patch process and won't invalidate any existing VPAs you may already...

SWV 6.1 Maintenance Pack 1 (build 6.1.4108) is now available for the public. 

For existing Customers (you have a license key) you can download it at our public download site.
For new Customers (those that don't have a license key) can download it from the trial ware site.

Many new features have been added since SVS 2.1 so for those of you not following along earlier here's a list:
Overviews
Symantec Endpoint Virtualisation Almost Open for Customers! Read the First Review 
The New SWVAdmin
Changes
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With SWV 6.1 we replaced the old zip library with Chilkat Compression and with the new zip library we now have new error codes for import and export.  Those that are familiar with the SDK and coding will recognize some of these error codes--though some of the names have changed-- and so instead of getting the ominous Error Code 18 you will get one of the following:

1009     FSL2_ERROR_ARCHIVE_CREATE
1010     FSL2_ERROR_ARCHIVE_EXTRACT
1011     FSL2_ERROR_INVALID_ARCHIVE
1060     FSL2_ERROR_MULTIPLE_LAYERS_SAME_NAME
1095     FSL2_ERROR_CHILKAT_ZIP_OPEN

An error 1009 can be caused because of a zip error or because SWV is trying to export to a vsa that already exists without passing in the overwrite flag (API and SWVcmd) while a 1060 error is you're trying to import a...