Archive for May, 2009

VMware View 3.1 released

Friday, May 29th, 2009

VMware released a new version of VMware View. Here you can view the release notes and here is a download link. View Manager 3.1 includes the following enhancements:

Performance Improvements – Login times are significantly improved and server utilization is reduced.
Automated LDAP Data and View Composer Database Backup – [...]

VMware ThinApp User’s Manual

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Today while surfing on the Internet I found the new VMware ThinApp User’s Manual. This Manual provides information about how to install ThinApp, capture applications, deploy applications, and upgrade applications. You can refer to this guide to customize parameters and perform scripting.
Finding this book I get the idea to start creating a new page with [...]

ZENworks Application Virtualization (ZAV) presentation at Novellcongres

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Yesterday I was at the Novellcongres.nl 2009 and talked in my presentation about Zenworks Application Virtualization (ZAV). A little funny thing is that I am using the latest Release Candidate of Windows 7 who automatically downloaded some updates. That caused an unexpected forced shutdown of my whole system including my virtual machine demo environment during [...]

XP Compatibility mode & VMware Workstation

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Windows XP Compatibility mode is a great extra feature within Windows 7. But as many of you I also work a lot with VMware Workstation. Unfortunately I get the following error messages after first starting an application from the XP Compatibility mode (for example “Windows Virtual PC”) followed by VMware Workstation.
 

Reason for these error messages [...]

Windows 7 Virtual XP Compatibility Mode

Monday, May 4th, 2009

As a TechNet member I have the early opportunity to download Windows 7 RC before it’s actual release date on Tuesday 5 May! After working with the beta versions for a few months now I was very curious about the XP Compatibility Mode functionality. I decided to install the new Windows 7 RC and the [...]