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Bob Janssen on Desktop Tranformation and VDI

Straight off the press: Recently RES Software’s founder and CTO – Mr. Bob Janssen – has written some quite interesting articles for the medias. One article posted over at ZD Net, describe in detail what the Desktop Transformation concept is all about. Another article was posted last month in Network Security magazine, where the topic was VDI and security.

I would urge you to read thease articles, as they give a unique perspective on what RES Software does. As a prospective enduser it may help you understand the value proposition of RES better. As an integrator you are likely to find many good talkingpoints within these articles.

The Desktop Transformation article on ZDnet can be found here.

The article regarding VDI and security can be found here (note you need to purchase the article online. Last time I looked, it was £31.50, but it’s well worth it.)

RES Software Wallpapers

From the Van Gogh dept. Recently the friendly folks at RES Marketing created a set of nice wallpapers for everybody to use.  I personally like ‘em as they’re nice, clean and simple – and it tells you what RES Software does too! :) Anyhow, I’ve put these into my training VM’s so there’s something relevant on the desktop. There are two wallpapers included, for regular 1024×768 and for widescreen aspect ratios, there’s one in 1920×1080. Below is a preview of what they look like:

Update Oct. 15th 2010: Due to the recent change of logo and graphics per Oct 5th, the download link below now points to the new logos. The article about those, can be found here.

Click here to download a .zip with all the new logo’s: 

Remember, if you want to use these as a wallpaper for PowerFuse controlled sessions, use the .BMP files for best results. Upload them in the Composition|Desktop|Background node. I will soon write an article on how to chose the right wallpaper file, depending on the client screen resolution.

Finally, if you have made your own homebrew RES related wallpapers and you would like to share them, please  post them on one of the picture hosting sites, such as Image Shack etc and drop a comment here or in the forum.

New RES Software Customer Portal?!

After just visiting the RES Software support portal this afternoon, and revisiting just now,  I couldn’t help noticing that some major changes have been made!

Public searches, downloads, knowledgebase and remote assistance seem te have been made publically available. It would seem they’ve opened up support for the masses. Quite the schmoove move as this will help investigators of RES Software’s products extensively!

Check it out here.

Wisdom-Fu! Find dumpfiles and alert by email.

From the community hero dept. I just got a LinkedIn update on a new cool article, written by Alain Assaf over at the CDC. He’s created a recipe on how to create a Wisdom module which will look for windows dump files, collect them centrally and report back to you by email. Pretty darn nifty if you ask me!

You can read the full article here:  Wisdom-Fu: Email alert when you find a memory dump. There is also a forum thread about this. Wisdom-Fu…  Gotta love it! :-) Keep up the great work Alain!

Click here to download the buildingblock:

3 New Technotes!

A set of 3 new technotes have been published this week, which will help you get more out of PowerFuse. We’ve got a Win7 migration article in the works too, so stay tuned! Here is an overview of the articles, available in the Technote Library.

RG024: Secrets of PWRGATE.EXE (Added March 5th 2010). This document will show some of the less know things you can use the pwrgate.exe process in PowerFuse 2010 to accomplish. For example you can launch the User Installed Applications (PMWS) wizard directly with this tool, and much more. A buildingblock is included for your convenience.

RG023: Managing multiple config sets for one app: (Added March 2nd 2010). Here we will examine how you can have multiple sets of configuration settings all stored under one application, enabeling the users to select which to apply when they  start the app. Very usefull for prod/test/dev scenarios. We will also examine the new Registry Tracing feature of PowerFuse 2010 in the same article.

RG022: PRINTERS.LST – The forgotten feature: (Added March 2nd 2010). This is the first article since the release of Powerfuse 2010. From this article you can learn how to create lists of printers which better reflect the geography and physical world, where the printers reside.

New technote: Upgrade Scenarios to 2010

From the Technotes-R-Us dept. A cool technote has been produced by one of my favorite Support folks, Paulina over on the RES Inside blog. This article covers how you may create a test environment by upgrading an copy of an existing PowerFuse 200x environment to PowerFuse 2010. Two approaches are detailed:

• Exporting all buildingblocks from the existing environment and creating a new database
• Copying the PowerFuse datastore and upgrading it to 2010

Go read the article here and remember to vote on it!