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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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  • 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!

     5,629 total views,  26 views today

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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

     9,248 total views,  24 views today

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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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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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November 8, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – restricting system applications using AppLocker

Using AppLocker to restrict system apps seems straightforward – but is it?

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November 3, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – Citrix User Profile Management store replication and container caching

Let’s discuss some cool new Citrix UPM features!

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October 13, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – Citrix published applications don’t refresh Explorer views

How to deal with view refresh failures in Citrix published apps on Server 2019 and Windows 10

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October 4, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #9

It’s time for part #9 of the logon times optimizations series – discussing the impact of profile size

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September 14, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #8

Today we’re looking at startup items, optimization tools and application preloading

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August 26, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – publishing Windows Explorer in Citrix and RDSH

A quick look at the whys and wherefores about publishing Explorer as an application on Citrix, AVD or RDSH

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August 20, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – FSLogix “user’s Registry hive was missing” error at logon

Here’s how to fix the “user Registry hive missing” error in FSLogix

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  • Windows session timeouts on Citrix – a brief guide March 8, 2023
  • QuickPost – Making CloudDriveMapper look cool November 7, 2022
  • Building an Ubuntu Minecraft server on Azure October 13, 2022
  • QuickPost – setting an “Image of the day” desktop background July 18, 2022

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