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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

     9,247 total views,  23 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?

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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 19, 2018 James Rankin

Microsoft acquires FSLogix – are they finally taking RDSH and VDI seriously?

Last Thursday, FSLogix were acquired by Microsoft (announced today). This is a very interesting move! Firstly, there seems to be

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October 17, 2018 James Rankin

How to get the fastest possible Citrix logon times

We all want super-quick logons in XenApp and XenDesktop environments. How can we get them? Introduction User experience is a

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August 30, 2018 James Rankin

Management of Start Menu and Tiles on Windows 10 and Server 2016, part #2

This is the second part of the article on Windows 10/Server 2016 Start Tiles management. The first part of this

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August 3, 2018 James Rankin

Management of Start Menu and Tiles on Windows 10 and Server 2016, part #1

Another subject that needs a “final word”. What is the best way to manage “Start”? I feel like I’ve written

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July 31, 2018 James Rankin

Per-user FTAs in Windows 10, Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 – THE FINAL WORD

FTAs have been a problem for a long time. Let’s put the subject to bed. I have done a number

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July 26, 2018 James Rankin

Error creating Citrix WEM database on SQL Express – “database creation error”

You may see this error setting up WEM on SQL Express. Here’s how to solve. When you install Citrix Workspace

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July 16, 2018 James Rankin

Creating a mandatory profile on Windows 10 1803

Microsoft hate mandatory profiles, but they are useful. Here’s a guide to creation on Win10. Note:- this article refers to

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July 16, 2018 James Rankin

Using FSLogix app masking for per-device licensing on XenApp and RDSH

Per-device licensing sucks on XenApp and RDSH. How can we manage it? Here’s how…  8,387 total views,  2 views today

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July 10, 2018 James Rankin

Creating a custom default profile on Windows 10 1803

Creating a custom default profile is a good way to streamline a Windows 10 deployment. How do you achieve this?

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July 9, 2018 James Rankin

Removing UWP apps on Windows 10 2004 – VIDEO

A quick how-to video covering the removal process of UWP apps on Windows 10 (2004). The video covers the essentials

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  • Windows session timeouts on Citrix – a brief guide March 8, 2023
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  • Building an Ubuntu Minecraft server on Azure October 13, 2022
  • QuickPost – setting an “Image of the day” desktop background July 18, 2022

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