Selective Deletion of the WEM Actions Tracking Cache

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 →

November 28, 2018 1

Selective Control of the Immersive Control Panel (Settings) in Server 2016

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 →

September 29, 2018 0

The Microsoft Modern Workplace – Embracing the Next

We live in an era of change at a pace completely unparalleled throughout our time on this planet. Everything we see and do is now viewed as a starting point rather than a final product or solution. Our children will grow up with capabilities that we haven't yet imagined, and we will continue to evolve... Continue Reading →

August 29, 2018 0

Citrix and the Microsoft Modern Workplace – Where does it fit?

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 →

August 22, 2018 2

AppLocker Script rules to maximise WEM logon benefits

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 →

August 5, 2018 2

Multi Site and OneDrive Folder Redirection with WEM

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 →

June 19, 2018 0

Synergy 2018: WEM and UPM Fun

As a first timer to Citrix Synergy this year, I was blown away at the pure scale of the event that Citrix put on. I expected the event to be awesome, but had no idea how amazing not just the conference is, but how priceless the chance to meet with the community, and the inner... Continue Reading →

May 21, 2018 0

Windows 10 Start Menu: declutter the default

A short while back I wrote a rant about my dislike of the tile management in Windows 10, and my view on trying not to manage these tiles with tools such as Workspace Environment Management. I have had some fun across a few projects since I wrote that post, and my view on managing them... Continue Reading →

March 20, 2018 1

Citrix WEM on Windows Server Core

With the release of Citrix Workspace Environment Management 4.5, we now have the ability to run the entire WEM infrastructure on Windows Server Core. This is an awesome step forward by Citrix and hopefully the first of many products to be supported in this fashion. There have of course, been plenty of instances of people... Continue Reading →

December 28, 2017 3

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