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Citrix App Protection Policies – Block Screenshots and Key Logging on Citrix Sessions

I’ve recently had some time to implement and play around with App Protection Policies. If you’re not sure what this is, allow me to explain. If you are allowing users to connect to your secure desktop environment using unmanaged endpoints, there is a risk that users may have some malicious software on their endpoints. To tackle this issue in our current climate, we can leverage something cal...

I’ve recently had some time to implement and play around with App Protection Policies. If you’re not sure what this is, allow me to explain. If you are allowing users to connect to your secure desktop environment using unmanaged endpoints, there is a risk that users may have some malicious sof...

Chrome start menu pins not displaying a custom icon

In Windows 10 and Server 2016/2019 you can pin items to the Start Menu as tiles. These tiles then show as large application shortcuts, I know we all know what they are but I’m showing an image below just to be clear on what it is I’m referring to. We can pin any kind of app here and we can create custom shortcuts with custom icons. Below is another example: I’ve just created a shortcut he...

In Windows 10 and Server 2016/2019 you can pin items to the Start Menu as tiles. These tiles then show as large application shortcuts, I know we all know what they are but I’m showing an image below just to be clear on what it is I’m referring to. We can pin any kind of app here and we can cre...

Generating automatic Excel graphs from Windows Performance Monitor captures

When running performance tests, it’s imperative to be able to visualise any data available. As part of my LoginVSI test runs, I test to use a complete automated framework that I shared previously in another blog post - Automating LoginVSI Load Testing and Performance Capture. I wanted a solution to be able to create automatic graphs from my tests without having to do anything manually, thank...

When running performance tests, it’s imperative to be able to visualise any data available. As part of my LoginVSI test runs, I test to use a complete automated framework that I shared previously in another blog post - Automating LoginVSI Load Testing and Performance Capture. I wanted a soluti...

How to build a 2-node scale-out-file-server for highly available profile storage

Many vendors have released profile disk solutions and since that time there has been a very large amount of people with queries about the kind of storage that’s necessary in order to support user’s profile disks. This blog post will aim to show you a potential solution in a scenario. In general, if you have a Hypervisor cluster with only local or distributed shared storage you can build a high...

Many vendors have released profile disk solutions and since that time there has been a very large amount of people with queries about the kind of storage that’s necessary in order to support user’s profile disks. This blog post will aim to show you a potential solution in a scenario. In general,...