Even though I log onto my domain machine with a standard user account, I’ve been prompted by UAC to elevate when running Registry Editor. After putting up with it for a couple of months, I finally got around to doing something to fix it today.
At the next Vista Squad meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday 15th October), along with Ray Booysen, I’ll be presenting on User Account Control and developing & running as non-admin. There’s a few things we’ll cover, including:
Now this looks good: Microsoft Application Virtualization Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. If you’re deploying applications via any virtualisation/streaming solution, monitoring is essential.
Here’s a download that’s quite timely as I’m looking at application compatibility as a component of my Windows Vista deployment project: Windows Vista Application Compatibility Downloadable List for IT Professionals
<img style=”display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px” title=”TechEd” src=”/media/2008/10/teched.png” border=”0” alt=”TechEd](http://emea.msteched.com/itpro/sessionpreferencesurvey.aspx) has been posted (you’ll have to be attending to see it). There’s plenty of excellent sessions to choose from and for me it’s going to be lots of App-V and Windows Vista content.
Well actually, there’s none at the moment, but a there is a knowledgebase article available on SP2 as a place holder for future information:
Security configuration roles for Application Virtualisation 4.5, which makes the Security Configuration Wizard in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 App-V aware, have been released to the Downloads Centre.
This came out of the blue (or perhaps I haven’t been paying attention). Here’s the Microsoft Application Virtualization Best Practices Analyzer:
Because I’m a stickler for clean UI, I want to ensure users don’t see extra files or folders in their User folder on Windows Vista. I’m trying to avoid something similar to what you can see in the screenshot below, which looks a little out of place:
A podcast that gives you can overview of Microsoft Application Virtualisation 4.5 has been posted that is worth checking out if you’re new to App-V or want to find out what version 4.5 is all about: Windows Springboard Series: AppV™ Application Virtualization
