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Creating a Windows 10 internet kiosk using Microsoft Edge
We’re all familiar with the use of Windows PCs as internet browsing kiosks. I can recall building many a kiosk on Windows 7 using the imaginatively-titled Internet Explorer “kiosk mode”. There are a...
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Printing in the modern world, part #1 – King Kong, Godzilla, and….printers?
I recently took my kids to see Kong: Skull Island at the cinema. Not the most cerebrally-challenging film I’ve ever watched, but for two eight-year old boys, the prospect of a whole bunch of...
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Cloud-based roaming profiles in Azure with FSLogix Profile Containers
So, we’ve started the process of cloud-enabling our applications and our data. For most people the future will be hybrid cloud, but for the applications and data that we can put up there, we have in...
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How to replace Settings with Control Panel on the WinX menu in Windows 10...
That’s a big fat mouthful of a title right there. But hopefully it tells you what we are trying to do here! The “WinX” or “Win+X” menu arrived in Windows 8.1, and has since become almost a sort of...
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WannaCry strikes – it’s Groundhog Day for IT security
Back in the day In 2003, I was a server administrator working on some of the largest distributed server estates across the world. The concept of applying “patches” for security purposes was at this...
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How to create mandatory profiles in Windows 10 Creators Update (1703)
I wrote a comprehensive post a few years ago (God, it’s been that long?) on how to create mandatory profiles. When Windows 10 came along, mandatory profiles had been completely and utterly forgotten...
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Diesel fuel, speed, and achieving enterprise nirvana by combining FSLogix...
Ok, what? Exactly – you’re probably thinking to yourself, just what can he be on about now? I thought the title of this article was a subject around enterprise IT? Well yes, but I do so like a good...
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Changes to Windows 10 servicing model
One of the changes precipitated by the latest Windows 10 version, the Creators’ Update, is that this version (1703) will be the last version that fits into what we knew as the Current Branch/Current...
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Launching locally-installed applications from Citrix Storefront using keywords
Recently I did some work in an environment where users had been migrated from a thin-client environment where they used hosted applications through Citrix Storefront, onto a Windows 10 fat-client...
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QuickPost – resolving “there was a problem sending the command to the...
Just a quick post today because I’ve recently re-encountered an error I first had a run-in with back in 2011. I’ve seen it happen a number of times and it does seem to occur in environments where...
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HTG staff named in Citrix Technology Advocate and VMware vExpert programs
I.T. community has always been a hugely important part of the information technology industry. In an industry where solutions can be engineered in myriad different ways, using a subset of software from...
View ArticleCitrix printing is solved. Isn’t it?
I made the point in an earlier article that printing can often be the 64,000-pound gorilla in the room. But if recent experience is anything to go by, there’s still a long way to come before Citrix...
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Using Skype for Business with a mandatory profile
I’ve had some email comments recently regarding Skype For Business 2016 with mandatory profiles. When you use Skype for Business and log in for the first time, it needs to install a personal...
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QuickPost: Multiple service failures on boot with no errors logged on Citrix...
So, just a quick post to document an issue we experienced recently regarding service failures on boot, without any errors being logged, on Citrix XenApp servers. The problem manifested itself, in this...
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Directing Citrix XenApp 6.5 or 7.x users to run their applications on...
Forcing users to execute XenApp applications on specific sets of servers is something you might want to do for a number of reasons. In my case, I primarily run into this requirement during phased...
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Managing device-based licensing on XenApp and RDSH using FSLogix Apps
Happy New Year all, it’s good to be back at work and have so many things lined up to blog about in 2018! Where shall we start? Well, let’s take a dive into the minefield that is per-device software...
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QuickPost: Windows 10 1709 UWP applications fail to deploy at first logon
Just a quick one for starters today (as I have a bunch of stuff I want to get out there). However, I want to quickly run through a problem I had over the last few days with the latest iteration of...
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Using host-to-client redirection in Citrix XenApp
I came across a problem recently where users were having problems opening links to certain SharePoint sites from within a Citrix XenApp environment. For some reason, the XenApp hosted sessions were...
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Automating common tasks part #1 – automating user provisioning
One of the key areas I am concentrating on for 2018 is automation. With the advent of hybrid cloud services that mix traditional on-premises infrastructure with SaaS, IaaS and PaaS, it is critically...
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QuickPost: “Cannot connect to server version prior to 7.xx” when running...
I recently upgraded my lab environment from XenApp 7.12 to 7.17. As part of this process, I also upgraded the Provisioning Server infrastructure to 7.17 as well. The upgrade appeared to go through...
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