MMS has left Las Vegas… for Good?

As we closed the expo doors on another Microsoft Management Summit and shut off the lights, I have to wonder if this will be the last trip to the strip for a long time to come. Rumors were abundant this year that MMS would see its final year as a trade show in 2012. But Brad Anderson wowed the audience at his Day 2 keynote by announcing MMS 2013 would be in New Orleans in June. I for one am already looking forward to the natural weight loss conditions of New Orleans during the Summer. But New Orleans was ... READ MORE>>

If you want to enable your users to request software installations or other machine related actions on their own computer with  Service Orchestration and RES Automation Manager, you need to make sure that Automation Manager is able to determine which Agent to schedule the Run Book to. This article describes how you can accomplish that. On the Automation Manager side Create a Run Book that performs the desired task(s) on the user's machine. This could be a software installation but also a defragmentation or predefined cleanup task. When configuring the Job inside the Run Book make sure to select the 'Ask during Run Book scheduling' option. This will cause RES Automation Manager to accept the Agent name provided by  Service ... READ MORE>>

Achieving SAM competency by Microsoft is an important milestone for RES Software, and marks the first time a vendor within the user environment management space has received this official recognition from Microsoft.

SAM I am and I do not like green...

It’s not often that I get to step to the mountain top and proclaim such a unique achievement in a software company, but today is not like any ordinary day. Today marks the day that RES Software has announced achieving the Microsoft SAM (Software Asset Management) competency. I am beside myself with pride at this particular accomplishment because, unlike any other, ... READ MORE>>

Park City; It’s not just for skiing anymore.

I think the best way to start this latest NFR blog is with a hearty congratulations to my old colleagues and friends at Microsoft. Earlier today they announced the much anticipated official Beta of a project code named “Park City”, or officially UE-V. User Experience Virtualization has been in the pipe for a long time now and with this announcement by Microsoft today it sends a clear message across the user state virtualization space. And that message must absolutely be taken seriously -or desktop modernization projects could be in jeopardy. As you ... READ MORE>>

In part 1 I showed you how pinning to the taskbar works in a RES Workspace Manager managed environment, in this article I will show you how you can pin shortcuts to the StartMenu and have them stored with the use of Zero Profiling. For a customer that wanted to have users some mandatory shortcuts pinned to the StartMenu I created a solution for this with the help of Zero Profiling and the use of "User Profile Directory" Which ways are there to pin items to the StartMenu from a Workspace Manager session.   RES Workspace Manager has no options for pinning items to the StartMenu, but this can be done with the standard Windows options. ... READ MORE>>