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Upgrading AppSense DesktopNow - a step-by-step guide
I've never really written an article based around an AppSense upgrade - they have always been fairly straightforward for me. However, given that EM 8 FR 5 offers a few radical changes, particularly on...
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Create Windows mandatory profiles in ten steps (for AppSense DesktopNow, or...
Deciding on your profile type is an important part of any virtualized deployment, but it is particularly important when deploying AppSense DesktopNow, as AppSense merges user settings into a base...
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Mapping a WebDAV share as a drive through AppSense DesktopNow Environment...
I'm still stuck trying to complete the world's most infuriating post - one on setting up a default Windows 8.1 Start Screen - so while I struggle against this, I thought I would put out something a bit...
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Getting to grips with Windows 8.1 #2 - customizing the Start Screen using...
As I promised a while ago, let's today try to do a bit more on the Windows 8.1 side of things, as I have been spending more time than I've wanted to digging around inside, as C3PO might have said, its...
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Getting to grips with Windows 8.1 #2.5 - customizing the Start Screen using...
Hahaha. Maybe one should always check with others before writing something up, eh?About two weeks of my life I spent trying to get persistence of the Windows 8.1 Start Screen working, and even at the...
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Persisting IE10 cookies using AppSense DesktopNow
On a couple of occasions now I have done some work with Ben Whitmore (@byteben) down in the flatlands of Norfolk. The last time I was down there, we were doing an upgrade to AppSense EM 8 FR 5....
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QuickPost - Citrix XenApp published application launches full published desktop?
This burns me on a semi-regular basis, so I'm going to write a quick blog post about it to save me digging the same solution up time and again. So hopefully it should also help some of you out...
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QuickPost - how to check Internet Explorer version in AppSense DesktopNow (or...
I'm trying to do more of these "QuickPost" articles as I work on some big ones. This particular post was going to be part of the ongoing investigation I've been doing into the roaming behaviour of...
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The AppSense Bigot turns three - is WEM the future of UEM?
It's three short years today since I started up this blog...so I thought today we might have a bit less technical discussion, and more of the sort of thing I normally do in my capacity over at The...
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IE10 and IE11 Cookies and History persistence - a deep dive, part #1
I've spent weeks looking at the issue of Cookies and History persistence now, since I was alerted to the possible issues in the first place. It's been a frustrating voyage of discovery, punctuated with...
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IE10 and IE11 Cookies and History persistence - a deep dive, part #2
In the first part of this article we looked at the performance of the major Internet Explorer versions with a variety of platforms and persistence methods. In this second instalment, we will measure...
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Set up AppSense DataNow appliance in a home lab - a quick guide
I've been sadly neglecting AppSense's DataNow product on this blog, but given that I am in the middle of doing a big comparison article on EFSS (Enterprise File Sync and Sharing) software, I thought...
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QuickPost - XenDesktopServerSetup crashes when installing XenApp or...
Today, whilst trying to put together a XenDesktop PoC system, I was confronted with an error that had me stumped for quite some time.The installer (AutoSelect.exe from the XenDesktop 7.6 installation...
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AppSense Insight - understanding your EUC environment
When I was awoken at 6.45 this morning by the sounds of my children hunting for their Avengers: Age of Ultron cards, I noticed a Tweet from @stealthpuppy regarding a "new EUC tool from AppSense". Given...
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QuickPost - how to stop user folders showing as "My Documents" for support...
If you redirect your users' My Documents folders to a network share where each user maps to a subfolder of a root directory (e.g. all users redirect to \\SERVER\SHARE\%username% for the My Documents...
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BriForum London 2015 - a virgin's review
This week I attended my first ever BriForum in London. Being mindful of the expense involved, I actually opted to submit a session to try and get around the problem of forking out cold hard cash to...
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QuickPost - Debugging AppSense Environment Manager in a post-EM 8 FR 6 world
For a long time now, AppSense administrators have had to become familiar with the EMClientDebug tool when trying to capture errors, and feeding this into the EM Log Parser for analysis. The process...
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FSLogix first look #1 - managing legacy or multiple Java versions, the EASY way!
There's been a lot of buzz recently about FSLogix, who are a company making a few disruptive waves in the virtualization world with their core products. The beauty I see in FSLogix is that it is very...
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Setting AppSense Personalization Server status based around a user-defined...
This is going to be another of those absurdly-titled long posts (like this one), where I go around the houses attacking a problem before arriving at a completely different decision. But hey! I enjoy...
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Improving Citrix XenApp session performance by blocking ads in Internet Explorer
I've done a lot of talking recently and in most of it, I've been trying to impress upon people the importance of that subjective and almost intangible quality called user experience. But one of the...
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