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IE10 and IE11 Cookies and History persistence in roaming/Citrix situations, a...
You may recall I did a couple of articles a while ago talking about how IE10+ Cookies and History behaved for roaming users - mainly those on Citrix platforms, although the concepts were perfectly...
View ArticleQuickPost: How to automatically mute the volume on XenDesktop sessions
Recently I was deploying a few XenDesktop instances into thin clients on open-access (library) areas. One of the requirements was to automatically mute the volume on these Windows 10 machines so people...
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Windows 10 part #4 - secure your privacy with AppSense DesktopNow
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year or so, I'm sure you've encountered the general hubbub about Windows 10 and how it uses advanced "telemetry" (one of the most wonderful...
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Windows 10 part #5 - have Microsoft declared war on the UEM sector?
I know I come across as a rabid Microsoft basher sometimes, what with the fun we had with IE10+ Cookies and the like, but I am prepared to give any tech company a good tongue-lashing should I feel they...
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QuickPost: Customizing Office and Outlook 2016 using AppSense DesktopNow
As well as being dumped unceremoniously with Windows 10 for deployment recently (regular readers may have noticed), I'm doubly on the bleeding edge because we're also pushing out Office 2016. I've had...
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Custom triggers in AppSense DesktopNow Environment Manager - user-initiated...
Let's get back to some AppSense content for a change. You may have noticed I've been trying to broaden the scope of this blog (despite the name!) and concentrate a bit more broadly on the EUC sector....
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QuickPost: AppSense Personalization Server synchronization failures when...
I came across an issue over the last few weeks regarding regular Personalization failures for users who were browsing via Google Chrome. With help from AppSense support, and Ollie and Hiten from APS,...
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Windows 10 part #6 - roaming the Windows 10 Start Tile settings using...
I wrote a post some time ago detailing how to save the Windows 10 Start Tile settings and roam them through AppSense Environment Manager. However, it wasn't 100% reliable - intermittently, I would see...
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Windows 10 part #7 - maintaining ALL your settings using a standard roaming...
Windows 10 is, by its nature of constant updates, a moving target. So far I've had a couple of cracks at roaming a full Windows 10 user state between domain-joined machines. Both of them so far proved...
View ArticleWindows 10 part #8 - speeding up the first logon process
I sent out some Tweets recently regarding knocking around 66% off the first logon time of a Windows 10 machine. Whilst people are not overly concerned about the actual first logon time (as long as the...
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Windows 10 part #9 - removing Modern Apps from your image
One of Windows 10's most noticeable changes is the integration of Microsoft's new "Modern" or "Universal" apps. They're intended to offer a new method of delivering and creating applications that sit...
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The last pieces of the jigsaw – dealing with Office 365 performance issues in...
Ain't that a mouthful of a title for a post? :-)Anyways, having spent part of last week at BriForum London, it’s interesting to come away with a broader view of what is happening in the virtualization...
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Deploying per-user file type associations (FTAs) on Server 2012 R2, Windows...
We've been down the file type associations route before. I've had quite a lot of emails and questions as a result of my previous articles, so I think it's ripe for a bit more clarification and a bit of...
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QuickPost: Throwing your errors into the Notification Center
On a lot of the projects I work on, support staff are keen to run a few "pre-flight checks" as part of the logon process. Ensuring that machines are named, homed and running correctly is often...
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Creating a custom Outlook signature in AppSense Environment Manager v10
AppSense DesktopNow version 10 has landed, bringing with it a raft of new features and improvements on the old version 8. One of the ones I was looking forward to was the ability to create custom...
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QuickPost: Setting file type associations (FTAs) using AppSense Environment...
Remember the huge debacle of FTAs (file type associations) we've discussed on this blog a few times previously? Remember how Microsoft have made it so horribly difficult to set or enforce or roam a...
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Everything you wanted to know about virtualizing, optimizing and managing...
With Windows 10 now into its latest edition, the 1607 “Anniversary” update, it now appears, for better or worse, to be here to stay. It has generated a lot of interest; supposedly the “last version of...
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Everything you wanted to know about virtualizing, optimizing and managing...
With Windows 10 now into its latest edition, the 1607 “Anniversary” update, it now appears, for better or worse, to be here to stay. It has generated a lot of interest; supposedly the “last version of...
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Windows 10 part #7 – maintaining ALL your settings using a standard roaming...
Windows 10 is, by its nature of constant updates, a moving target. So far I’ve had a couple of cracks at roaming a full Windows 10 user state between domain-joined machines. Both of them so far proved...
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Windows 10 part #8 – speeding up the first logon process
I sent out some Tweets recently regarding knocking around 66% off the first logon time of a Windows 10 machine. Whilst people are not overly concerned about the actual first logon time (as long as the...
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