eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: SoftGrid 4.0

The Softricity SoftGrid Sequencer requires package information. Notice in the Hostname field the default placeholder name. We replaced this with the host name of our test system.

The Sequencer wizard guided us through the process of preparing an application for virtualized deployment.

SoftGrid generated most of the package identifier information seen at left. We simply clicked the Begin Monitoring button to start the package process.

The Microsoft Office 2003 setup process proceeded as expected. Here, were about to enter our product key.

After the intial installation, the SoftGrid Sequencer returned and walked us through the post-installation steps of setting up our applications. Here, were performing post-installation actions on our Outlook 2003 client. The Sequencer tracks these change

The Sequencer walked us through each component of the Office install and noted the changes made by each application.

We saved our Office settings to a file. As can be seen in the dialog box in the forefront, we could use these saved settings on other machines.

A number of Internet Explorer settings were changed before deployment, including making the new home page www.eweek.com.

At the conclusion of the sequencing process, we reviewed the settings for each of our processed applications. We were able to make a wide variety of changes to the sequenced applications.