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January 13, 2020 James Rankin

Citrix Performance Analytics – first look

I’ve been previewing Citrix Performance Analytics – what are my first impressions of this service? I’ve spoken and written many

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October 14, 2019 James Rankin

Optimizing the Teams web client (and streaming video) on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Using the Teams web version? Make it perform better by offloading it to the client. The Teams full-fat installer has

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October 11, 2019 James Rankin

Customizing the WinX menu, and making it user-specific

So here’s (hopefully!) a full, comprehensive guide to tinkering with the right-click Windows WinX menu. What is the WinX menu?

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October 8, 2019 James Rankin

Dynamic Start Menu on Server 2016/2019 and Windows 10

Let’s sort the Start Menu out…and find a nice, secure, simple way of managing it. The Start Menu in Windows

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October 3, 2019 James Rankin

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops clipboard redirection

It’s been a long time since I’ve explored Citrix clipboard redirection….how well has it evolved? When you are working with

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July 25, 2019 James Rankin

Happy Systems Administrator day 2019!

Well let’s have a bit of a light-hearted change for a day, eh? I used to be a Systems Administrator,

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July 1, 2019 James Rankin

FSLogix official release – version 1907 from Microsoft

It’s the news most of you have been waiting for about the FSLogix release 🙂 Now I’ve talked a lot

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July 1, 2019 James Rankin

QuickPost – using FSLogix to create multiple default profiles and Start Tiles layouts

Let’s have a quick look at some cool tricks we can pull off with FSLogix. FSLogix (now owned by Microsoft)

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June 19, 2019 James Rankin

The history of the Windows user profile in EUC environments (1994-2019)

I’ve been told I bang on about Windows profiles a lot. Let’s fulfill that prophecy! Last week James Kindon, a

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March 21, 2019 James Rankin

FSLogix licensing comes out of the shadows

What’s going to happen with FSLogix, acquired by Microsoft last year? Now, we finally know! So you may recall that

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