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Deploying per-user file type associations in Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 and...
Well, this started out as a blog post about FSLogix Apps. But - we ran into a problem pretty quickly. Namely, that from Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 onward, you can no longer deploy per-user file type...
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FSLogix first look #2 - FSLogix Apps and Citrix XenApp working together
So, we had our initial look at FSLogix from a Java remediation standpoint, and it seemed to generate quite a bit of interest. However, let's now concentrate on the core product of FSLogix, which is...
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Happy Systems Administrator Appreciation Day!
Well, let's take the AppSense Bigot today where it hasn't been before - a bit of technical comedy. I used to be a Systems Administrator, and even as an EUC consultant I'm always thinking of those poor...
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Windows 10 part #1 - first impressions on roaming capabilities...nice face,...
So, we've got Windows 10 at RTM now, Microsoft's adventure into replacing the much-maligned Windows 8.x and the Modern interface with something more palatable. I have to say, early builds looked good -...
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QuickPost - Windows 10 part #2 - getting rid of OneDrive
Many of us have already adopted Enterprise File Sharing and Synchronization (EFSS) products. Many abound in the EUC space - ShareFile, DropBox, DataNow, Hightail, Box, to name just a few. Microsoft are...
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Roaming Citrix management consoles through AppSense Personalization Server
I remember quite a while ago I was asked by a client of mine to get the Citrix management console running through Personalization Server for them. Management consoles of all sorts have always been (in...
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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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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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Windows 10 part #3 - roaming the Windows 10 Start tile settings
I mentioned in my first look at Windows 10 how annoying I was finding it roaming the "Start" settings (Start being the name Microsoft have coined for the "live tiles" part of the Start Menu). After a...
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QuickPost: Windows 10 RSAT installed but no snap-ins or shortcuts available
In my unfortunate adventure delving deeply into the unholy under-the-hood mess that is Windows 10, I've been wanting to load up the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) so that I can take...
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Deploying per-user file type associations (FTAs) on XenApp 7.6 Server 2012 R2...
OK. I did an article recently on how to deploy file type associations (from hereon in, referred to as FTAs) on Windows 8.x/Server 2012 R2. However, the method I finally settled on in that article...
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QuickPost: Logging XenApp server session durations
I'm knee-deep in a revisit of the Internet Explorer 10+ Cookies and History debacle (and I'm already wishing I hadn't!), so it's an apt time for a QuickPost just to stop me from going completely and...
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QuickPost: Launching StoreFront Internet Explorer sessions maximized
I'm still not finished with these damned Cookies and History...however, I think I've found a way to reliably persist them, with some jiggery-pokery involved. So while I collate all the results, time...
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