Ok, so after I left you all wondering on the AppV score - I thought it was about time to show where we had go to...

Well - progress is good, very good! AppV (as if it needed any more ranting and raving) is a seriously cool piece of kit. Take this one problem... using CS4 on out ICT Suite machines and to bring in CS5 would bring a learning curve for staff and students alike. Well, what if you could run the two side by side. Normally, not a chance, but with AppV you can. CS4 sequences rather nicely (think of sequencing like packaging), CS5 is still full install at the moment. So - both can run on the machines independantly of eachother - everyone is happy.

Digital Blue is also sequenced up too. Why... well it can be a pain of a bit of software, so to separate it from the OS makes life a lit easier. Same applies to DLK MathsWorks. Anyone who has come across that gem will know what I mean.

So you see, you can use it for co-existing software versions, pain in the behind software, and in the case of Office 2010 - software which is just slow to install.

Office 2010 has some gotchas tho - mainly in that its Licence protection is its downfall. Never fear though - MS have done their homework on sorting it (as you would expect)... and here is how to do it...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983462

and the support files are

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=10386

Its very well explained... just click along :-)

For those interested... full list of main Apps sequenced so far...

Office 2010

Adobe CS4

Audacity

Digital Blue

Adobe Reader X

DLK MathsWorks

Media Player Classic

CamStudio

and there are other departmental ones (I will update with those)