Skip to content

JAMES-RANKIN.COM

technical how-tos | software reviews | industry news | forthright opinions | videos | podcasts | rants and raves

Follow @james____rankin
  • Articles
  • Features
  • Videos
  • Privacy Policy
  • About me

Category: All posts

All posts are added to this category so they can be put in the home page colour bar.

October 13, 2022 James Rankin

Building an Ubuntu Minecraft server on Azure

A random tangent today – let’s build a cloud Minecraft server!

Loading

Continue reading
July 18, 2022 James Rankin

QuickPost – setting an “Image of the day” desktop background

How to cycle a new Windows desktop background image each day

Loading

Continue reading
July 8, 2022 James Rankin

Setting up a Linux virtual desktop in Azure using Citrix DaaS

Let’s go in an unexpected direction this week – how do we set up a Linux virtual desktop via Citrix?

Loading

Continue reading
June 16, 2022 James Rankin

Setting up CloudDriveMapper

CloudDriveMapper is one of my favourite tools at the moment. How do we get it up and running?

Loading

Continue reading
March 9, 2022 James Rankin

Is it time to rethink application delivery?

Application delivery is the primary function of IT. Should we be looking at it differently?

Loading

Continue reading
January 24, 2022 James Rankin

Creating a Chocolatey package for the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent

Installing the Citrix VDA via Chocolatey Package Manager – a quick guide

Loading

Continue reading
December 10, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – how to start a process when a Citrix published application launches

How to auto-launch processes in published apps

Loading

Continue reading
November 29, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #11

How fast can we actually make a logon?

Loading

Continue reading
November 19, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #10

Let’s talk antivirus and security software.

Loading

Continue reading
November 17, 2021 James Rankin

Creating, converting and deploying MSIX packages with AppVentix

It’s time to dip my toe into some MSIX waters. What will I find?

Loading

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 … 10 Next Posts»

Recent Posts

  • Running a simple Chocolatey implementation from a file share March 4, 2025
  • Migrating FSLogix Profile Containers to Citrix UPM Containers (and other new features in UPM 2308!) September 19, 2023
  • QuickPost – getting started with Citrix UPM Containers September 8, 2023
  • Migrating Pinned Items into new profiles August 21, 2023
  • QuickPost – so long, and thanks for all the scripts… July 10, 2023

Site archives

Blogroll - CTPs

  • Aaron Parker
  • Benny Tritsch
  • Carl Stalhood
  • Carl Webster
  • Christiaan Brinkhoff
  • Dane Young
  • Dave Brett
  • Gareth Carson
  • George Spiers
  • Helge Klein
  • Marius Sandbu
  • Neil Spellings
  • Nicolas Ignoto
  • Patrick Coble
  • Paul Stansel
  • Remko Weijnen
  • Rory Monaghan
  • Ryan Revord
  • Sacha Thomet
  • Samuel Legrand
  • Theresa Miller
  • Thomas Poppelgaard
  • Tim Mangan

Tags

1803 (5) app-v (3) citrix (43) Citrix UPM (7) Citrix Virtual Apps (13) citrix virtual desktops (8) Citrix XenApp (3) CloudDriveMapper (3) community (2) drive mappings (2) euc (4) fslogix (32) FTAs (2) GPOs (8) group policy (6) Ivanti (3) licensing (2) logons (14) logon times (11) Microsoft Teams (5) migration (3) monitoring (14) onedrive (3) package management (3) PolicyPak (2) PowerShell (16) profile containers (3) profile management (3) profiles (13) rdsh (7) security (5) server 2016 (2) server 2019 (3) start tiles (3) teams (4) uberAgent (14) upm (4) user profiles (2) UWP (2) wem (2) Windows (18) Windows 10 (21) windows logons (9) XenApp (3) XenDesktop (2)
WordPress Theme: Wellington by ThemeZee.