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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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  • 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 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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October 2, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – Citrix UPM Profile Containers feature

How do we use Citrix UPM’s new “Profile Container” feature to capture the entire user profile?

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September 11, 2020 James Rankin

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

It’s part #2 of our Windows logon optimization series – today, we are talking about storage and networks

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September 4, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – how to stop FSLogix Profile Containers bloating when running Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams’ profile bloat is truly awful. Here’s a quick guide to getting around it! This is a basic runthrough

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August 6, 2020 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations – part #1

Everything you need to know about Windows logons in one blog series starts right here! I have threatened on several

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July 2, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – adding Windows File Explorer functions to the right-click menu

Do you want to customize your Windows context menus with File Explorer functions? Read on… I had a request recently

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June 18, 2020 James Rankin

uberAgent explored, part #4 – is it the product for you?

Part #4 of an in-depth exploration of the uberAgent product – what’s the final verdict? If you haven’t read part

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  • QuickPost – setting an “Image of the day” desktop background July 18, 2022

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