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Reducing Profile Size with a Profile Clean Up Script – PowerShell Edition
I recently posted a script for removing unnecessary files and pruning files based on their age, which can be used at logoff to keep profile sizes manageable - Reducing Profile Size with a Profile...
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Mailbag – Deploying multiple editions of Office 2010 with App-V
I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier – I get emails from readers fairly regularly and many of them make great topics for blog posts. So here’s the first in a series of posts where I’ll cover...
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App-V White Papers
Update (28/03/2012): This list of white papers are now available on the Microsoft Download Centre: Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Documentation Resources Download Page Microsoft TechNet...
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Delivering Office with App-V – Sequencer Recommendations & Best Practices
Having had to travel to Australia and the US recently, I’ve not had that much time to work on an upcoming white paper, but I have been posting some of the early versions of the chapters. So here’s...
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Client Side Performance Testing coming to Login VSI
I was invited to sit in on a preview of the new Client Side Performance Testing module for the Login VSI testing suite. The session was led by Mark Plettenberg, the lead developer of Login VSI. This...
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Configuring Hyper-V Virtual Networks with PowerShell
I’ve been configuring a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V deployment in the lab via MDT to a couple of ProLiant DL380 G5′s. I’ve been keeping the deployment as simple as possible, so there’s no SCVMM...
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Citrix Technology Professional Award
Last Friday turned out to be a pretty awesome day – my wife and I found out we’ll be having a girl in July and I’ve been selected to receive the Citrix Technology Professional award for 2012. I’m...
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Migrating packages from App-V 4.x to App-V 5.0
The App-V 5.0 Sequencer includes a couple of PowerShell modules and for converting packages is the only interface to use. Here’s how to automate the migration of packages from the old 4.x format to the...
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BriForum talk – Office and App-V
If you’re attending BriForum London next week, I have a couple of lightning round sessions on Thursday at 13:40: Should Office Be in the Base Image? The Definitive Guide to Deploying Microsoft Office...
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App-V Books from Packt Publishing available with discounts in May
I’ve been fortunate enough to have performed technical editor duties on a couple of App-V books by Augusto Alvarez - Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 and Microsoft...
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Citrix Synergy 2012 – Slide deck for Geek Speak Live ‘User Environment...
At Citrix Synergy 2012, I had the distinct pleasure of moderating a Geek Speak panel: ”User Environment Management smackdown 2012″ with Shawn Bass, Helge Klein, Harry Labana from AppSense, Bob Janssen...
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BriForum London 2012 – Slide deck for The Definitive Guide to delivering...
I shared a lightning round session at BriForum London 2012 with Dan Brinkmann. I rolled two lightning rounds (including Should Office Be in the Base Image?) into one with The Definitive Guide to...
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Automated Citrix Receiver deployment hangs indefinitely
Deploying Citrix Receiver (full or Enterprise) via an unattended command-line, may result in the installer running indefinitely and not completing until you interact with the target machine. This...
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Unattended Windows deployment fails with 0×80004005 under Hyper-V
There’s one thing that I can’t get enough of when automating Windows deployments, it’s ambiguous and confusing error messages. More please, I’m a sucker for punishment. Here’s one I’ve been...
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Sequencing Mozilla Firefox 13 with App-V 4.6
It’s a simple task to virtualize Firefox, as it lends itself well to application virtualization; however getting it right takes a little more effort. I’ve previously shown you how to sequence Firefox...
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White Paper – The Definitive Guide to Delivering Microsoft Office with App-V
Using application virtualization to simplify your gold image by delivering what’s most likely the most common component of any image – Microsoft Office, continues to be a popular topic. But is it the...
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Mailbag – Pre-caching App-V 4.6 packages on Laptops using AppSense...
Rory asks via Twitter – can we pre-cache App-V packages on laptop clients so that all applications are available offline, using AppSense Environment Manager?: As with many solutions in Environment...
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Delivering Citrix XenApp Controllers and Workers with the Microsoft...
Here’s a quick a dirty method of controlling whether your Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) task sequence deploys a XenApp Controller (broker, XML service) or Worker (session host). Let’s assume that...
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Replacing Redirected Folders and Offline Files with AppSense DataNow
Note: this article covers a product that is in beta at the time of writing; therefore the specifics of the approach outlined in this article may be subject to change. This is not a recommendation to...
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Adobe Reader XI Deployment
Adobe Reader XI is now available and along with this release comes some interesting tools for deployment: Citrix XenApp enhancements for better performance (it’s not clear whether this specifically...
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