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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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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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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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July 1, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #6

Windows logon time optimization guide, part #6 – Windows 10 trickery

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June 28, 2021 James Rankin

Why has Windows been dialled up to 11?

Microsoft have announced Windows 11. The question is – why?

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June 24, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #5

Part #5 of the Windows logon times guide is here – and we’re talking about user profiles

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June 22, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – adding shared mailboxes in Online (non-cached) mode

A very quick reminder on how to keep your shared mailboxes from impacting storage

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May 26, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – setting Storage Sense cloud content dehydration on Server 2019

Storage Sense is a pain on Server 2019 RDSH. Here’s how to tame it.

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May 24, 2021 James Rankin

Forcing Citrix/RDSH users to open files in either Visio or Visio Viewer

Can you specify whether your users should use Visio or Visio Viewer when they’re running on a shared platform? This post will tell you the answer.

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