Removing UWP apps on Windows 10 1803 – VIDEO
A quick how-to video covering the removal process of UWP apps on Windows 10 1803. The video covers the essentials of removing them on an already-running image, but doesn’t go into the removal from a...
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Creating a custom default profile on Windows 10 1803
Creating a custom default profile is a good way to streamline a Windows 10 deployment. How do you achieve this? Note:- this article refers to the default profile creation process on Windows 10 version...
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Creating a mandatory profile on Windows 10 1803
Microsoft hate mandatory profiles, but they are useful. Here’s a guide to creation on Win10. Note:- this article refers to the mandatory profile creation process on Windows 10 version 1803, fully...
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Per-user FTAs in Windows 10, Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 – THE FINAL WORD
FTAs have been a problem for a long time. Let’s put the subject to bed. I have done a number of articles on handling File Type Associations (from hereon in referred to as FTAs) on Windows versions from...
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Management of Start Menu and Tiles on Windows 10 and Server 2016, part #1
Another subject that needs a “final word”. What is the best way to manage “Start”? I feel like I’ve written tons of articles and delivered loads of presentations around this particular subject....
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Management of Start Menu and Tiles on Windows 10 and Server 2016, part #2
This is the second part of the article on Windows 10/Server 2016 Start Tiles management. The first part of this article is available here. The primary focus of part #1 was delivering a pre-arranged...
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How to get the fastest possible Citrix logon times
We all want super-quick logons in XenApp and XenDesktop environments. How can we get them? Introduction User experience is a metric which is much more of a consideration today then it ever was before....
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FSLogix licensing comes out of the shadows
What’s going to happen with FSLogix, acquired by Microsoft last year? Now, we finally know! So you may recall that Microsoft, back in November, acquired FSLogix. I wrote an article about it (that you...
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Dynamic Start Menu on Server 2016/2019 and Windows 10
Let’s sort the Start Menu out…and find a nice, secure, simple way of managing it. The Start Menu in Windows used to be a user-customizable area of the filesystem, but ever since Windows 8, new...
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Customizing the WinX menu, and making it user-specific
So here’s (hopefully!) a full, comprehensive guide to tinkering with the right-click Windows WinX menu. What is the WinX menu? The WinX, or Win+X (because that’s the keystroke that reveals it), menu...
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Adding Microsoft Authenticator MFA to Windows logon
Need a quick and easy 2FA setup for Windows and RDP logons? This might help… So I recently had a challenge where I needed to add 2FA (specifically, using the Microsoft Authenticator service) to a...
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QuickPost – Improve Windows 10 logon times with FastFirstSignIn
There’s a new trick in the quest for Windows 10 logon nirvana – introducing FastFirstSignIn. Specifically this for those of you using Windows 10 (whether this be ordinary Windows 10, or brokered...
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QuickPost – blank icons on Windows 10 desktop when using FSLogix to mask Office
Quick blog today, an oddity you may see using App Masking to hide Microsoft Office. I noticed this problem pop up in World of EUC Slack (you’re not on World of EUC? Go and join immediately!) when Jen...
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QuickPost – adding Windows File Explorer functions to the right-click menu
Do you want to customize your Windows context menus with File Explorer functions? Read on… I had a request recently where users on a single image wanted to add customized context menu (right-click...
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QuickPost – disabling the Run command (without killing everything else)
I often have to do a bit of security hardening (in fact myself and fellow CTP Dave Brett did a lot of security hardening at one point, to the extent we did a presentation about it, and – quick plug –...
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The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #5
Everything you need to know about Windows logons in one blog series continues here! I have threatened on several occasions now to do a follow-up to my previous article on Windows logon times which...
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QuickPost – publishing Windows Explorer in Citrix and RDSH
I know that many customers using virtualized solutions such as Citrix Virtual Apps or Remote Desktop Session Host often publish an instance of Windows Explorer (or File Explorer, as it is now known)...
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The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #9
Everything you need to know about Windows logons in one blog series continues here! I have threatened on several occasions now to do a follow-up to my previous article on Windows logon times which...
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QuickPost – Citrix published applications don’t refresh Explorer views
A quick bit of problem-solving today, as I’ve just noticed this issue reappear when it was previously fixed. When you’re publishing Citrix Virtual Apps on Server 2019 or an upstream version of Windows...
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The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations, part #10
Everything you need to know about Windows logons in one blog series continues here! I have threatened on several occasions now to do a follow-up to my previous article on Windows logon times which...
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