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March 4, 2025 James Rankin

Running a simple Chocolatey implementation from a file share

A quick and easy guide to setting up a Chocolatey PoC using a file share

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September 19, 2023 James Rankin

Migrating FSLogix Profile Containers to Citrix UPM Containers (and other new features in UPM 2308!)

How to migrate from FSLogix to UPM Containers (and other great new UPM features)

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September 8, 2023 James Rankin

QuickPost – getting started with Citrix UPM Containers

A quick guide to getting started with Citrix UPM Containers

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August 21, 2023 James Rankin

Migrating Pinned Items into new profiles

A quick rundown on a method of migrating Pinned Items to new profiles
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July 10, 2023 James Rankin

QuickPost – so long, and thanks for all the scripts…

A quick tribute to one of the pillars of the EUC community

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March 31, 2023 James Rankin

QuickPost – Citrix UPM write-back on lock and disconnect

A very quick QuickPost, on another new setting for Citrix UPM

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March 29, 2023 James Rankin

QuickPost – Citrix UPM VHD compaction feature

Citrix UPM continues to add new features – this time VHD(x) compaction has arrived

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March 24, 2023 James Rankin

QuickPost – Citrix UPM App Access Control

How to do App Masking in Citrix UPM

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October 13, 2022 James Rankin

Building an Ubuntu Minecraft server on Azure

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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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

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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

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November 29, 2021 James Rankin

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

How fast can we actually make a logon?

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November 19, 2021 James Rankin

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

Let’s talk antivirus and security software.

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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?

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