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Best Practice for the Active Setup StubPath value

September 25, 2023

It’s been a best practice for a long time to clear the Active Setup StubPath value per application to avoid the Active Setup processes from running at logon, impacting the user experience. This is a challenge we constantly have with Vendors and packaging teams. But blindly clearing the StubPath value could lead to application issues. […]

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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

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 ability to easily switch […]

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XDPing C# Function

June 13, 2023

I wrote this C# (csharp) function back in 2020 when developing the Self-Service Session Reset Tool. I have since enhanced it for improved error checking and logging and am happy to share it here for anyone else who wants to leverage it. I released a PowerShell version back in 2019. I like to integrate these […]

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Sentinel LDK License Configuration Helper Service

June 9, 2023

Introducing the Sentinel LDK License Configuration Helper Service. This new tool I’ve created uses registry values and/or XML files to configure the client-side Sentinel LDK License Manager (hasplms) service, which updates the configuration in the License Manager Configuration File (hasplm.ini) found under the “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Aladdin Shared\HASP” folder on a 64-bit Windows machine. It […]

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Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) Post Install Script

July 18, 2019

UPDATED 20th January 2023 The implementation of UviProcessExcludes registry changes was improved and made easier for others to follow. Although some of these items can be excluded from the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) installation, checking and managing them in a post install script ensures we have consistency between all installations and VDA versions. All these actions need […]

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Best Practice for the Windows Client Side Caching (CSC) kernel driver in VDI workloads

May 21, 2019

It’s been a best practice for a long time to disable Offline Files in both RDSH and VDI workloads. However, this has only ever been based around the Offline Files (CscService) service and some registry tweaks. What people don’t realize is that you must properly disable Offline Files in all VDI workloads by also disabling the […]

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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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XDPing PowerShell Function

May 16, 2019

I wanted to write valid PowerShell function to do an XDPing the same way Citrix do with their Health Assistant tool. I was struggling a little to get the PowerShell code working as expected, so in the end I used JetBrains decompiler to decompile the VDAAssistant.Backend.dll, which is a component of the Citrix Health Assistant Tool. This […]

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