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EUC and User Profiles. Everyone's favourite topic and one that can raise some heated discussions on why, how, who, when and what should I do to manage these things, ideally with as little administrative sleepless nights as possible. Profile Management has not typically been the friend of your every day fun loving EUC admin. The... Continue Reading →
Sometimes its nice to be selective - I want things to turn up in certain places for certain users at certain times based on certain conditions - that's why WEM and I get along so well. I have put together a quick module for the hydration kit which allows you to get a little funky... Continue Reading →
I recently engaged with a customer who had chosen to deploy Citrix 7.15 LTSR across multiple sites utilising Windows Server 2016 published desktops as their primary delivery platform. The user base had been a long term consumer of Windows Server 2008 R2 based published desktops, and the IT teams had utilised the typical management technique... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite parts of WEM is the ability to dynamically build out an environment for a user based on any number of possible values, settings, or variables. I've noticed a bit of a trend on the discussions forums as more and more people take on the WEM Solution, around a need for more... Continue Reading →
The Windows 10 Modern Start Menu has introduced a range of challenges and frustrations for end users and admins alike, particularly within environments that operated for long periods with a typical Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 redirected Start Menu, a technique which no longer lends itself well to the new modern Start Menu.... Continue Reading →
A while ago I put together a couple of posts around the basics of the XenApp and XenDesktop Service as it was known as back then, as well as a high level decision flow chart to identify local resource requirements when dealing with Citrix Cloud. Considering those pieces were written over a year ago, I... Continue Reading →
It has been a considerable amount of time that the inability to nicely manage the Immersive Control Panel or "Settings" App provided in place of the traditional Control Panel in Server 2016 has frustrated Citrix and RDS admins. Finally as of the September Cumulative Update for Server 2016, we can selectively lock this down in... Continue Reading →
Microsoft and Citrix have both made significant investment in the "Modern Workplace" or "Workspace" over the last 18 months, and the landscape for operating in this new fashion has been consistently maturing for a while now. I look at how I operate since starting my current role over a year ago, I am a full... Continue Reading →
One of the many benefits of WEM, and arguably the most important one, is the crazily reduced logon times you can gain by transferring actions and environmental setup tasks that would traditionally be handled by Group Policy Preferences or logon scripts. I wont go into detail about this here, as by now we mostly know... Continue Reading →
