PREVIEW: LUA Buglight 2.0 Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 02:42 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The fans of this very helpful tool will be happy to know there was a new preview version released at TechEd... read more RELEASED: Updated Application Compatibility Toolkit Documentation Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 02:36 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Application Compatiblity Toolkit has long suffered from insufficient documentation - Microsoft has recognized this and has updated the docs... read more New Post Categories App Mgmt and Vista Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 02:27 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy We have two new post categories that are linked on the home page - "Application Management" and "Vista"... read more Thinstall Acquired by VMWare Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 10:20 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Thinstall is an extremely robust application virtualization solution.  This robustness makes it a natural fit with VMWare's products ... read more Thinstall Partners with Macrovision to Bring Robust Application Virtualization to InstallShield Wednesday, November 14 2007 @ 02:36 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Occasionally we have provided updates on an application virtualization product that is extremely robust, but little known to admins.  Now that they've partnered with Macrovision you're going to be seeing a lot ... read more Windows Installer 4.5 In Beta Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 04:19 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy If you'd like to get on the beta of the next release of Windows Installer ... read more Windows Installer COM Advertising and Cross-Product Interaction Thursday, March 15 2007 @ 12:32 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Don't your users hate it when they start a software application that then triggers a request for the installation media of a totally unrelated application?  How about some relief ... read more RELEASED: Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 Thursday, February 1 2007 @ 10:39 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy This release focuses on Windows Vista readiness assessment ... read more Symantec Acquires Altiris Tuesday, January 30 2007 @ 01:48 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Symantec has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Altiris.  I have to tell you the first thought that came to my mind ... read more EVENT: Thinstall App Virtualization Suite 3.0 Webinar on 1/23/07 Friday, January 19 2007 @ 10:56 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Application virtualization is all the rage and Thinstall has a unique tack on the market - unlike most other application virtualization solutions ... read more ProcessMonitor - Regmon + Filemon on a Single Process Tuesday, November 21 2006 @ 02:41 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy It has been many moons since I asked Sysinternals if they had thought of combining regmon and filemon for a single process  ... read more UAC in MSI Notes by MSI Team Member Monday, October 9 2006 @ 07:20 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft employee Robert Flaming has been publishing some excellent information about how Vista's UAC and MSI interact  ... read more Standard User Analyzer for Vista is Released (1.0.1.700) Saturday, September 30 2006 @ 09:25 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft's Vista feature for "Standard User" sounds cool, but you really wonder how many of your legacy applications will be able to use the mode?  This utility monitors your application and gives a very detailed report on whether it will likely run under Vista's "Standard User"... read more New Vesion of Microsoft AppVerifier Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 09:53 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy A new version of Microsoft's Application Verifier (part of the Applcation Compatibility Toolkit) includes "Print Verifier", reinstatement of checking operating system compatibliity for Windows Logo and ThreadPool checking.  read more Microsoft Standard User Analyzer for application compatibility Monday, May 29 2006 @ 12:22 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft's Vista feature for "Standard User" sounds cool, but you really wonder how many of your legacy applications will be able to use the mode?  This utility monitors your application and gives a very detailed report on whether it will likely run under Vista's "Standard User"... read more Wise Package Studio 7 Beta Thursday, May 4 2006 @ 06:55 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Wise has opened up the beta of their next major release of package studio.  Significant enhancements include full integration of SVS (Software Virtualization Solution) with the Repackager, Test Expert and Software Manager also the ability to include RPMs for Linux Packaging ... read more FREE: Wake On Lan Support and Central Policy Push Tool For Group Policy Wednesday, April 26 2006 @ 08:21 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Special Operations Software is focused on making Group Policy based software distribution a practical reality in corporate environments.  They have released a free plug in to Group Policy that allows administrators to wake all the computers in an OU, force a policy update ... read more FREE: Altiris Software Virtualization Solution Tuesday, April 11 2006 @ 02:08 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Altiris has released Software Virtualization Solution which provides software application level virtualization which helps isolate your applications from others running on the system.  The personal version is free, but devoid of any centralized management capabilities.  There is also a downloadable 120 day evaluation for the full corporate product ... read more New Virtual Machine Blog Cateogory and RSS Feed Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 01:39 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy We have added a new category and RSS feed to DesktopEngineer.com for news about Virtual Machines... read more Vista / .NET 2.0 Click Once Application Deployment Tuesday, October 4 2005 @ 11:21 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Windows Vista is touting the new Click Once application deployment mechanism.  This new mechanism could prove challenging for administrators since developers can begin to do their own "pull" updates to client computers simply by putting the right files on a ... read more Application Compatibility Toolkit 4.1 Released Friday, September 30 2005 @ 11:29 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Theoretically this is a minor update, not worthy of mention. But we all know that from time to time these small releases fix things that were never acknowledged as broken. read more