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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

     1,384 total views,  31 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?

     2,592 total views,  28 views today

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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

     9,391 total views,  34 views today

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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

     10,367 total views,  35 views today

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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?

     10,591 total views,  36 views today

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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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February 14, 2021 James Rankin

Microsoft Teams on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, part #2 – default settings and JSON wrangling

Part #2 of Microsoft Teams on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops – how to pre-stage user settings

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January 29, 2021 James Rankin

QuickPost – ImportProfileRegistry error when mounting FSLogix container

A quick rundown of an unusual error I came across with FSLogix Profile Containers

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January 17, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations – part #4

It’s part #4 of our ultimate logon times guide….all about Group Policy processing

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December 11, 2020 James Rankin

AppVentiX + FSLogix – super slick application delivery

What’s my current favourite application delivery method? Here’s the answer….

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November 16, 2020 James Rankin

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

COVID-19 caught a lot of us on the hop. How have we had to adapt to the changes in our workforce which were driven by the pandemic?

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November 12, 2020 James Rankin

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

Blocking the Run command with GPOs is often horribly restrictive. Is there a better way to do it?

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November 7, 2020 James Rankin

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

It’s time for part 3 of the logon optimizations series – where we will be looking at “first logon impact”

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October 16, 2020 James Rankin

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

A rewrite and update of a previous article, as I revisit the thorny subject of network drive mappings.

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October 13, 2020 James Rankin

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

FSLogix Redirection is often forgotten about, and the Registry side of this even more. How do we go about using it?

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October 12, 2020 James Rankin

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

It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on our old friend Microsoft Teams – this time we’re giving it a series!

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  • QuickPost – setting an “Image of the day” desktop background July 18, 2022
  • Setting up a Linux virtual desktop in Azure using Citrix DaaS July 8, 2022
  • Setting up CloudDriveMapper June 16, 2022
  • Is it time to rethink application delivery? March 9, 2022
  • Creating a Chocolatey package for the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent January 24, 2022

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