I spend a lot time working with mandatory profiles and RES Workspace Manager, especially when using Citrix XenApp or Remote Desktop Services. One of the key elements to creating a slick mandatory profile is to ensure the Active Setup keys are added to the mandatory profile or you will forever see the annoying “Personaliz(s)ing Settings” …
We are pleased to announce that the free Virtual Engine Toolkit (VET) 1.0 has been released! The new release includes an updated wizard to convert multiple Group Policy Objects to .REG files in a single pass and also includes the new Profile Update Utility (PuU). For more information or to download now, visit the VET …
[UPDATE 01/08/2011 – RES have released a fixpack for RES Workspace Manager 2011 SR1 that resolves the issues highlighted in this post. I don’t have any word on whether this fix will be rolled into the next Service Release of RES PowerFuse 2010 (SR5?). I hope so as we can then remove this post. In the meantime, please contact …
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Virtual Engine are pleased to announce the launch the new BETA 3 release of the Virtual Engine Toolkit (VET). This release incorporates several reported bug fixes and a few enhancements. Issues importing Group Policy Objects and merging ADM/X files have been fixed. New enhancements include the ability to easily view the .ONCE file GUIDs generated …
The merged Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010 template files have been uploaded to the Virtual Engine website and are available for download in the Templates section. Each .ZIP file contains all the office templates for each product edition, e.g. Standard, Small Business and Professional etc, making it easy for you to configure …
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Deploying new GPOs via RES Workspace Manager is incredibly simple. Unfortunately, as was highlighted in Migrating GPOs to RES PowerFuse (Part 1), it can be messy due to each RES Workspace Manager registry policy can only being based on a single ADM or ADMX/ADML file. A single Office GPO (if implemented via RES Workspace Manager …
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The Virtual Engine Toolkit BETA 2 (VET) has been released and can be downloaded from the web site here. This tool is free and will always be free although registration is required. At present there is currently no help available within the BETA 2 download so there will be a lot of blog posts to …
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