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    June 17, 2026 James Rankin

    QuickPost – Windows 11 Start Menu reverts to Category View after Group Policy refresh

    I said I wasn’t writing any more blog posts…but you lot haven’t bought enough of

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  • April 13, 2026 James Rankin

    The end of the golden age…

    I’m sure old regular readers of this blog can’t have failed to notice that my

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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 8, 2023 James Rankin

Windows session timeouts on Citrix – a brief guide

Windows session timeouts can be a big fat pain in the proverbials. Let’s map out all of their idiosyncrasies.

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November 7, 2022 James Rankin

QuickPost – Making CloudDriveMapper look cool

A quick one today, about how to enable tighter integration of CloudDriveMapper

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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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  • QuickPost – getting started with Citrix UPM Containers September 8, 2023

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