AppSense Community Advisor (ACA) Summit 2012
This week I was privileged to be invited to attend the inaugural ACA Summit at AppSense HQ in Daresbury. The stated goal of the AppSense Community Advisor program (ACA) is to "recognize exceptional...
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Using DropBox and portable apps to detach your applications from the OS
Let's have a bit of a departure from our normal fare today. This is more on the consumer side of things than the enterprise, and hopefully should be a solution to a problem that's bitten me on more...
View ArticleAppSense products now support MSP patch format
Time for some good news that I first heard at the ACA Summit in Daresbury. Yes, AppSense's patches and updates will now be distributed in the MSP file format. This will bring the Management Suite...
View ArticleAppSense Environment Manager and "layered configurations"
I used to contract at a client where one of the systems support engineers was a tad, shall we say, prone to mistakes. Seeing him digging about in AppSense configurations or App-V sequences used to...
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Guidelines for streamlining an AppSense Environment Manager configuration
I see all sorts of Environment Manager configurations at different clients. Some are put together really well - others make basic mistakes that contribute to the configuration being ineffective, slow...
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Ensuring AppSense Environment Manager logoff actions run correctly....and...
Must apologize for being so quiet lately...I've been working on quite a lot of interesting posts but because of some personal issues I've never managed to get around to finishing any, yet! I'm also...
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Using AppSense Environment Manager to automate the normalization routines for...
I blogged some time ago about how to "normalize" a Citrix Provisioning Services vDisk on an AppSense level when you are updating a gold image. AppSense isn't the only piece of software that needs some...
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Using AppSense Application Manager to de-elevate permissions
I've long been aware of this particular feature within Application Manager, but had yet to see a real-world application of it. However, recently I did some work for a client with a very large...
View ArticleReusable Nodes and Reusable Conditions library for AppSense Environment Manager
I've had this thought quite often, that it would be useful to have a "baseline" library of Environment Manager Reusable Nodes and Reusable Conditions to import into new configurations, and then simply...
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AppSense Management Suite becomes DesktopNow
Just to keep us all confused, AppSense Management Suite (the collective name for Environment Manager, Application Manager, Performance Manager and the Management Center) is now AppSense DesktopNow. I...
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Using AppSense Environment Manager Configuration Assistant
Configuration Assistant is often described by AppSense staff as one of their “hidden gems”. Really it shouldn’t need to be so hidden, but that’s something that hopefully they will address as their...
View ArticleA year of AppSense bigotry
On 6 Feb 2012, a conversation started over on the NT SysAdmin mailing list about hiring practices in IT. Approximately 115 posts later, the conversation had gone all the way through to how to raise...
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Using AppSense Application Manager to allow non-admin users to install...
The requirement to allow users to install applications is becoming more and more common. The days of providing a unified set of monolithic desktop applications to each end user are slowly being worn...
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Configuring AppSense DesktopNow popup messages for different user languages
I've been doing a bit of work recently for a company with offices right across Europe. As they were also using a full AppSense deployment, this raised an interesting problem - that of configuring the...
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AppSense DesktopNow Management Center security roles and permissions
The security settings in the AppSense DesktopNow Management Center are, well, to be quite nice about them, a little clunky and unintuitive. As it often takes a while to get your head around these when...
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Adding an application into AppSense DesktopNow Personalization Server - using...
I still get quite a lot of requests from people regarding how to add applications into Personalization Server. A few of these requests revolve around best practices, but the lion's share are about...
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Flagging the OS of a device connecting to a XenApp/XenDesktop session using...
A long time ago I did a post on how to detect iPad and/or iPhone sessions. Whilst effective (at the time), it was rather blunt and prone to becoming useless as soon as the hardware changed in any way....
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Detection of physical/virtual sessions and laptops/desktops in AppSense...
In a lot of places where AppSense is used to manage virtual (VDI or SBC) sessions as well as physical ones (laptops and desktops), there are often different configurations for each. However, these...
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Group Policy ADM and ADMX files in AppSense DesktopNow Environment Manager -...
It's a long time since I last focused on anything to do with the usage of Group Policy settings and files in Environment Manager. To be honest, the original article is getting a bit old - and some of...
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Applying Citrix Policies through AppSense Environment Manager on XenApp 6.x
I've been asked on more than a few occasions whether it is possible to deploy Citrix policies through AppSense DesktopNow Environment Manager, and I've been trying to find information on this for some...
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