Login Consultants Release Updated Softgrid Tools
Monday, 21 April 2008 by Michel Roth
My ex-colleagues over at Login Consultants have released updated versions of their popular Softgrid tooling: the SoftGrid OSD Editor 2.1 and the SoftGrid Migration Tool 1.1. They both provide additional functionality to deal with Softrid 4.5 features even though that is still in beta. Talk about bleeding edge!

The SoftGrid OSD Editor is a GUI tool created by Jan van der Elst that allows you to open an existing SoftGrid OSD file and edit it. All the possible categories are read from the SoftGrid OSD file and displayed in the appropriate tab. You can insert and/or delete values from the OSD as you like. So you don't have to worry and opening and closing tags or anything like that any more. There are however some fields you can not edit with the OSD Editor. This is by design: these are fields that should never be edited like for example the GUID of the sequence. Additionally, the SoftGrid OSD Editor also educates you on the meaning of some of the XML tags that can be used in SoftGrid OSD files. 

Version 2.1 adds Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid) 4.5 support. One of the major new features in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 is Dynamic Suiting Composition. Dynamic Suiting makes it possible for virtual applications to interact with each other. So the main new feature of the SoftGrid OSD Editor is Dynamic Suiting Composition Support which allows you to easily Add the Dynamic Suiting tags into the SoftGrid OSD file. Just Search for SoftGrid OSD files on the Content Share and add them!


The SoftGrid Migration Tool
is an add-on for the native SoftGrid Sequencer created by Dennis Damen & Rodney Medina. The purpose of the SoftGrid Migration Tool is to help you “convert” existing automated application setups to SoftGrid Virtualized Applications (aka streams or sequences) with the least possible amount of user intervention. Freeware!

Version 1.1 has the following new features added since 1.0.1

  • Support for SoftGrid 4.5 Sequencer Beta
  • Support for new Command Line Sequencer options; Compression, Block Size and save as MSI (only available when using SoftGrid 4.5)
  • Ability to set RTSP, RTSPS and Port Number from the SGMT
  • Ability to set Windows 2008 Server and Windows 2008 Terminal Server as supported OS during Sequencing (only available when using SoftGrid 4.5)

Download both tools from the download section of the Login Consultants website (registration required).


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