End User Computing
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Microsoft WVD
It was an especially beautiful November week in 2017 when I visited Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Autumn in Redmond is such an amazing time. I’ve...
End User Computing
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is very complex. Many companies set out to build a Windows-based VDI or DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service in the cloud) offering for...
Microsoft Identity & Access Management
I wrote about setting up password-less phone sign-in authentication with Microsoft Authenticator and Azure AD recently which is a great option in Public Preview...
Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Citrix DaaS
Citrix Cloud
Every month it seems more and more organizations are embracing modern passwordless strong authentication in their end-user computing environments. Just in the last 3...
End User Computing
A few months ago I was invited to speak at the FIDO Alliance‘s inaugural Authenticate conference by Citrix and the FIDO Alliance. A big...
Citrix XenServer
Let’s say a host in your pool won’t restart a VM and freezes half way (that wonderful yellow icon). If you hit the console...
Citrix XenApp
You might get a request to to publish an Internet Explorer URL/link in XenApp for whatever reason. Web applications that use Java Runtime Environment...
Citrix XenApp
Citrix provides and awesome tool called Citrix QuickLaunch that can do many things including creating ICA files for your newer XenApp 6.5, XenApp 6,...
Citrix XenApp
I was able to attend a Desktop Virtualization seminar by Brian Madden several weeks ago. It was a small group of attendees so it...
IIS
I received a request today to gather all the IPs of users that have been hitting a specific URL on an IIS web server...
Citrix XenApp
If you ever wanted to force an uninstall of XenApp or Presentation Server, you can do it with just one command. There are many...
VMware ESX
Had a situation where I needed to reset every VM in one environment to Unlimited that had previously had a an explicitly set memory...
VMware ESX
Wonderful little vSphere bug we came across today. Let’s say you have a host with the following VMKernel ports configured on the vSwitch: -vmk1...
Windows 7
Sometimes you can’t get to an image host because it is down or has exceeded it’s allotted bandwidth. If the host has a mirror...
Citrix EdgeSight
EdgeSight Agents for XenApp can be deployed and configured to all of your XenApp servers easily via command line scripts/batch files. Here are the...
Citrix XenApp
After your install XenApp 6.5 and setup your web interface site under Web Interface 5.4, you may notice that going to the web interface...
Citrix EdgeSight
If you just updated your EdgeSight server and you get an error message like this when hitting the web console: The report server cannot...
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Hi Jason, I read your blogs and its quite good and eye opening for me. I need an input from…
I'm with Richard Powell and Andreas Mariotti. Things work if I do it the USB redirection way, but not with…
We see this behaviour with 2203 CU2 VDAs and while being happy, that there is at leasy an workaround without…
Saved my butt without playing around over dozens attempts to get that certificate installed! Thank you! <3 Chris