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April 9, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – Improve Windows 10 logon times with FastFirstSignIn

There’s a new trick in the quest for Windows 10 logon nirvana – introducing FastFirstSignIn. Specifically this for those of

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April 7, 2020 James Rankin

User group policies not applying when using FSLogix Profile Containers

There was a lot of noise about this issue lately – hopefully this will help some people out! So, I

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March 4, 2020 James Rankin

Adding Microsoft Authenticator MFA to Windows logon

Need a quick and easy 2FA setup for Windows and RDP logons? This might help… So I recently had a

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February 11, 2020 James Rankin

2020 CTP and CTA announcements – the power of I.T. community

Today is CTP and CTA announcement day – but what makes I.T. community so special? I’ve been pretty active in

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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?

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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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