New Technote: Secrets of PWRGATE.EXE

A new article has been posted in the Technote Library.  The subject is an obscure little executable, called PWRGATE.EXE, which is part of PowerFuse. In the 2010 release, you are able to do many interesting things with this program, such as launching many of the PowerFuse components directly. You are now also able to lauch the User Installed Applications (formerly known as Partially Managed Workstations) wizard directly, so users don’t have to go through the old PowerPanel. Of course they are still able to do that if enabled, that is. As a part of this article, I have created buildingblocks which you can import into your own environment to get access to these apps.

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RES Wisdom Visio Shapes

From the creative dept. One of our esteemed RES usergroup comunity members, pkaak has taken the time to create a set of Microsoft Visio shapes for RES Wisdom. Good man! This is the first go, which includes just the basic stuf like Datastore, Disapatchers and agents. Nevertheless it’s a great start and I would urge you all to try them out and give Pkaak feedback in the forum.

The thread can be found here and here’s a direct link for downloading the Visio shapes.

Manage multiple config sets for 1 app!

Another technote has been published in the Technote Library. This one will teach you how to configure PowerFuse to prompt users for settings when they launch an application. This is extremely usefull for prod/test/dev scenarios, where you would like to avoid having multiple definitions of the  same application to maintain. The whole thing revolves about the usage of workspace containers, so if you’ve been dodging learing what workspace containers are about, with the release of PowerFuse 2010 it ‘s a good time to grab the bull by it’s horns. If you still feel a bit in the dark about what Workspace containers are and what they can be used for, have a look at this other article, which is a work in progress as we’re constantly adding new uses for these objects.

The new article, called RG023 Managing multiple config sets for  one app, also describes how to use the new Registry Tracer feature in PowerFuse 2010.

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PRINTERS.LST – The forgotten feature

From the Technotes-R-Us Dept. A new technote RG022 has been submitted to the library. This time the topic is a special file, which actually has been with us for several years, the PRINTER.LST file. What it does is allow you to completely independently of existing printerserver naming conventions, to build a tree of well known geographical or physical locations to which the users actually can relate, when selecting a printer with Printing Preferences (formerly known as PowerPrint). The end result can look like this example, I’ve created here on the right.

Go read the full article here.