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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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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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July 5, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #7

Our Windows logon time series moves onto part #7 – where we will talk Active Setup

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