Citrix-Microsoft-EUC-Mobility
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 →
One of the limitations of WEM based environmental settings is that they are all or nothing from an assignment perspective, meaning that when you enable them, outside of excluding administrators, everyone is going to be hit by that setting. This isn't always ideal for environments that want selective assignments of these particular settings. The settings... Continue Reading →
Every action that WEM handles, and most settings that are applied in the user context are stored within the users registry hive within the following locations: For basic Actions, Tasks, Environment and USV style settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VirtuAll Solutions\VirtuAll User Environment Manager\Agent\Tasks Exec Cache And for user based printing management settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VirtuAll Solutions\VirtuAll User Environment Manager\Agent\User Printers... 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 →
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 →
A more common theme and demand arising within the WEM space now that its gained such a large amount of traction, is the ability to handle multi-site or multi-region Folder Redirection (USV) and Profile locations within native WEM configuration. At first glance this can appear to be more complex than it actually is, so I... Continue Reading →
