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May 11, 2020 James Rankin

uberAgent explored, part #2 – out-of-the-box experience

Part 2 of an in-depth exploration of the uberAgent product – how it performs out-of-the-box If you haven’t read part

1,416 total views, 2 views today

April 20, 2020 James Rankin

Using OneDrive Sync Client with C: drive restrictions (and a bunch of handy security tips too)

Let’s go have a quick delve into the age-old battle of user experience against security! It is very important to

3,838 total views, 7 views today

April 14, 2020 James Rankin

uberAgent explored, part #1 – getting up and running

The first part of an in-depth exploration of uberAgent – getting it up and running If you’ve ever seen any

1,988 total views, 2 views today

April 10, 2020 James Rankin

Spreading users over multiple file shares with FSLogix Profile Containers

I’m standing on the shoulders of giants this week – today, it is Ryan Revord. Introduction The COVID-19 outbreak lies

7,327 total views, 17 views today

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

5,610 total views, 24 views today

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

16,754 total views, 47 views today

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

20,129 total views, 43 views today

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

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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Adapting to COVID-19 – how monitoring became (even!) more important

QuickPost – disabling the Run command (without killing everything else)

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations – part #3

(Reasons not to be) using network drives on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

QuickPost – FSLogix Registry Redirection (HKLM to HKCU), or “how to turn Computer Config GPOs into User Config GPOs”

Microsoft Teams on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, part #1 – installing the damned thing

QuickPost – Citrix UPM Profile Containers feature

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations – part #2