Windows OS

A few months ago, I blogged about a change in behavior of the Printer Spooler in Windows 2003 SP2 which can mark printers offline when they are actually online.

With KB 946198, you can restore the Windows 2003 RTM/SP1 behavior by setting the SNMPLegacy DWORD registry setting to 1, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print.

Please note that this only works after you apply KB 946198. The registry setting did not exist until KB 946198 came along.

Improvements

1. Improvements to package upgrade when importing upgraded sequences into the SoftGrid Server Management Console Snap-in.
2. Improvements to package downgrade operation.
3. Improvements to non-paged pool usage when sequencing large applications.
4. Improvements to sequencing of applications that use both Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
5. Improvements to command-line parameter handling of virtualized child processes.

New capabilities

1. Microsoft SoftGrid now provides support for the MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization.
2. Microsoft SoftGrid now supports SoftGrid Server components running under WOW64 on 64-bit Windows.

Read more about the 4.1 SP1 Hotfix Rollup 1 from here and the 4.2 SP1 Hotfix Rollup 1 from here.