michael cole

I need a solution Hi folks, I'm building a SQL report for checking Policy Compliance. I am finding problems however trying to find where the English name of a Managed Software Delivery Policy Name is. I can find a table

New forum discussion 05 Jan 2012

michael cole posted: Auto-Login PC not triggering Logged-in user software delivery

I need a solution We recently noticed some software jobs werent running on certain PC's. The job in question is set to run with a specific condition, that a user is logged on. The error message we are getting is saying that

download comment 28 Dec 2011

michael cole commented on: Searching Thousands of NSE's for Info in Seconds

i haven't tried this on Windows 7.

New download 16 Dec 2011

michael cole posted: Searching Thousands of NSE's for Info in Seconds

This is a small autoit executeable compiled that when run presents a GUI that you can use to search hundreds of files in a few seconds for a text string in their content. The uncompiled autoit code can be obtained from the link below. It outperformed a Windows search for some reason we couldn'

idea comment 16 Nov 2011

michael cole commented on: Symantec should allways provide a MSI for install package

*Thumbs up* The install set for streaming/virtualisation is a mess and plenty of people will want to deploy this to enterprise. Let's have an MSI and be professional, eh Symantec :)

article comment 16 Nov 2011

michael cole commented on: Symantec Workspace Streaming - VDI Pre-Population Provisioning

Beware the Orcale Virtual Desktop Client (v2 only tested) compared to a Sunray. We found that in our site the VDC didnt populate the user but the Sunray did due to the way each works with the current software.

article comment 16 Nov 2011

michael cole commented on: Symantec Workspace Virtualization - Packaging Best Practices, Part 2

I thought these were great but always felt like there was more that could have been said. One of the biggest gaps in this is a chapter on how to clean up virtual packages after creating by removing unwanted fluff. There are plenty of references ...

discussion comment 25 Oct 2011

michael cole commented on: SWV - copying files from read only to read/write issues

Actually that is very helpful, i didnt think of editing from the layer rather than the tool, esp with complex changes. I commited the changes on the access 97 app i captured and it copied everything from RW to RO, but didnt delete the RW. is ...

discussion comment 24 Oct 2011

michael cole commented on: SWV - copying files from read only to read/write issues

Still needing help here with virtual packaging and read-only/writeable issues. In addition, i woudl like to know why the Wise packager decides to put some things in read only and some things in writeable. I just did access 2000 and it all went ...

New forum discussion 04 Oct 2011

michael cole posted: SWV - copying files from read only to read/write issues

I need a solution Hi folks, SWS 6.1 SP7 - app version 6.4.1346 + Wise Virtual composer OS Windows XP pro SP3 and Windows 7 pro SP1 (on domain (so far)) I'm a complete amateur with SWV and whilst i can package

article comment 27 Sep 2011

michael cole commented on: Getting the hang of IOPS

Your passion for writing isn't hidden here, I love that you use the first person tense as opposed to a 'dry third', which is typically against convention for a technical document. Your writing is always comfortable and ...

article comment 16 Sep 2011

michael cole commented on: Symantec Workspace Streaming - VDI Pre-Population Provisioning

Hi Ryan, thanks for the info, i've used this successfully now. Is there any more info on how the client picks up the logged in user? I noticed, and was especially drawn to, where you said it should be an "integrated login ...

discussion comment 31 Aug 2011

michael cole commented on: PCA in Sunray - anyone done it?

But its not resolvable for us because in Sunray there will always be an RDP session from the user and when PCA tries to bind to the multiple sessions KVM it falls over. Disconnecting the user probably would work but this isn't an option for ...

idea comment 31 Aug 2011

michael cole commented on: pcAnywhere authentication can pass from the logged in user to pcA authentication

...But http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH137703 has caused massive problems for us. PCA can't work when you use another remote session like RDP on the PC since it binds to KVM. We are going more thin client which I imagine is a common global ...