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Cold Starting and/or Hydrating Your Applications To Improve Their Startup Times

June 27, 2023

In the End User Computing (EUC) space we know that after the first time the application starts post reboot, the next time is faster. The first startup is referred to as a cold startup and all subsequent runs are warm startups. The first time the application starts, components of the application, such as the EXEs (executables) and […]

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ESRI ArcGIS Pro and Desktop License Type and Program Selector User Interfaces

June 20, 2023

Updated 17th July 2024 Here are two awesome User Interfaces (UI’s) I built that will compliment any ESRI ArcGIS Pro (AGP) and/or ArcGIS Desktop (AGD) deployment. More specifically from my point of view, they have been developed with a Citrix Published Application, VMware Horizon, Remote Desktop, VDI and AVD deployment in mind, giving the users the […]

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Citrix Self-Service Session Reset Tool Process Flows

October 31, 2020

***Updated for the release of v1.6. There are eight (8) main process flows for the how the Citrix Self-Service Session Reset Tool works: User Opens Web Page Process Flow Get Sessions Process Flow Logoff Sessions Process Flow Disconnect Sessions Process Flow Restart Machines and Forcefully Restart Machines Process Flow Hide Sessions and Unhide Sessions Process Flow […]

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Citrix Self-Service Session Reset Tool

August 28, 2020

***New release expected Q3 2023. It will include browser language detection to make it easy to translate into different languages. Also includes some new methods and further improvements. ***If using a release less than v1.9, please refer to the release history below to understand the new features, enhancements and fixes now included. This tool has been […]

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Best Practice for the Windows Time (W32TIME) Service for RDSH and VDI workloads

May 16, 2019

When using image deployment mechanisms for RDSH and VDI workloads, such as Citrix PVS, Citrix MCS and VMware View Composer, it’s extremely important to reconfigure the Windows Time (w32time) Service to ensure that the LastBootUpTime is accurate. If it’s not accurate, it effects monitoring, the correlation of log data, event triggers, etc. The default Manual […]

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Introducing the new AppDNA Platinum Edition and Goodbye and RIP to the Standalone Editions

March 26, 2014

The Excitement: Last June Citrix included a cut down licensed version of AppDNA as part of the XenDesktop 7 Platinum license. As excited as everyone was at the time, this license was so restrictive that you could only analyse applications using the SBC module. Back then I wrote an article titled “AppDNA is now included with XenDesktop 7 […]

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AppDNA is now included with XenDesktop 7 Platinum, or is it just a tease?

June 19, 2013

I was excited by the recent announcement during the Citrix Synergy 2013 keynote that an AppDNA license will be included with the upcoming release of XenDesktop 7 Platinum edition. Yes! Now one of my favourite tools, so needed in this space, gets to shine alongside the flagship products. This sparked so much excitement and conversation […]

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Deployment Script for the Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Tools

May 10, 2009

A good friend of mine, Warren Simondson from Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy, writes some awesome tools. There are a particular set I use for all Terminal/Citrix Server deployments I refer to as “User Self-Help Tools”. The below script is what I use to deploy them. Simply add the tools you wish to deploy to an array. […]

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The Bees Knees script for installing VMware Tools

December 3, 2008

Updated 19th October 2010… This is what I call the “bees knees” of scripts for deploying VMware Tools. It will detect if it’s being installed on a Terminal/Citrix Server, and remove the appropriate components that may impede performance, etc.

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Displaying useful connection information on the desktop wallpaper

October 27, 2008

Updated on 6th April 2010… Like most IT professionals, I’ve been using Bginfo to embed some useful information in the wallpaper of a users Desktop for some years now. So what you say! Well…not too long ago Warren Simondson of CTRL-ALT-DEL IT Consultancy created a couple of cool utilities called TSBackdrop and PCBackdrop. I was […]

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