PSA: You have 1 year to upgrade your Windows 7 deployments!
Tick tock tick tock! You have read these warnings before for other software and only you know how those situations turned out! So take heed of the date…
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Windows 7
Have you seen this behavior before?
At two different clients now I’ve come across the following strange IE behavior on Windows 7 (I think IE9, but I don’t know that it’s limited to that…
Not so new Cool Utility: Update the Default User profile in Windows 7/2008
This one is pretty self explanatory in it’s usefulness to VDI folk who leverage profiles to roll out customizations and default settings. Even though you configure to use…
Tweaking your Windows 7/XP Desktops on VDI
My buddy John Simon has put together some common tweaks he uses for for his company’s Virtual Desktops. These are easy tweaks that can be used in VMware…
Hold your horses, Explorer!
By Jacques Bensimon - We’re all familiar in our Remote Desktop Services and XenApp builds with the necessity of using the “Run logon scripts synchronously” policy to ensure…
The Mystery of the Disappearing Pinned Shortcuts
Here is another great article by my Colleague Jacques Bensimon. Be sure to follow him on Twitter. (@JacqBens) I don’t know if many of you have run…
Quick Tip: Pin to the Start Menu or NOT…
Here’s a quick tip I learned by sitting next to Jacques Bensimon today. If you want to control whether an application is ‘allowed’ to be pinned to the…
Windows Refresher; Renaming Multiple files.
Here’s a quick note Aaron Silber sent over to me reminding me of the super useful F2 key when dealing with Citrix Provisioning Server image files. Hello All,…
Citrix Provisioning with VMXNET3 : Blue Screen of Death on Clones
If you have been streaming Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 vDisks using Citrix Provisioning Services to VMware’s ESX, you’ve probably run into a Blue Screen of Death…