If you’ve attempted to launch Windows Explorer as a component of your SoftGrid sequenced applications, you may find that you are not able to view folders within the SoftGrid protected environment (i.e. inside the bubble). When you attempt to view a folder that lies within the bubble or your SoftGrid drive letter, you will receive an ‘Access Denied’ error. The reason for this is that the Explorer process is not running within the bubble and thus you won’t have access to those folder locations.
Here’s a list of components developed for Windows Vista or during the same development time frame and included in Windows Vista, that have also been made available for installation on Windows XP:
Microsoft Deployment looks to have made it’s way to version 1.0 and is available on Microsoft’s Download Centre. There’s no real confirmation that this is the RTM/RTW release but it’s just been posted so I can only assume.
I’ve just updated my Java Runtime Environment install script for Sun Java 6 Update 3. Apart from supporting the latest JRE update, this version of the script fixes some registry changes that I hadn’t got quite right previously. If you’ve not seen this script before here’s a breakdown of what it does:
Looking to write to CD or DVD media via a script? Did you know that Windows includes an API to do just that? Version 2.0 of this API that is included in Windows Vista has also been made available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003: Image Mastering API v2.0
Any review of a touch screen digital audio player or phone is going to inevitably compare to the iPhone/iPod touch, but touch interfaces are the way forward because they just make sense. So here’s my quick and dirty review of the Samsung P2 which turned up this morning.
Well they came close, really close, but full marks goes to Axialis for first making the command line options for their installer and then making them nice and easy to see too. I got a nice surprise when installing the latest version of Axialis IconWorkshop, which has a link to the command line options right on the setup wizard. Now if only the setup programme was based on Windows Installer I’d be even more impressed.
This is a about a week old (I’ve been away in Italy so I’m a bit behind), but Adobe have released Reader 8.1.1. Currently only available in English with quite a few languages still only receiving 8.0. You can download the full installer here and find what’s been updated here. Good news is that my deployment instructions and transform for 8.1 are still valid for this version.
Citrix provide a nice installer for the Access Management Console that you can automate to script the installation of the AMC. However, if you’ve ever needed to remove the AMC you’ll find that you need to remove each component one at a time. Because there are 9 components, this can become a little tedious.
Don’t get me started on the ridiculousness of wrapping an MMC console around a web application served by Apache Tomcat to administer McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator (surely one or the other, not both), but you may see this error after you log into the console instead of seeing the expected settings window:
