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Citrix App Protection Policies ā€“ Block Screenshots and Key Logging on Citrix Sessions

Iā€™ve recently had some time to implement and play around with App Protection Policies. If youā€™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...

Iā€™ve recently had some time to implement and play around with App Protection Policies. If youā€™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 Iā€™m showing an image below just to be clear on what it is Iā€™m referring to. We can pin any kind of app here and we can create custom shortcuts with custom icons. Below is another example: Iā€™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 Iā€™m showing an image below just to be clear on what it is Iā€™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, itā€™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, itā€™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 thatā€™s necessary in order to support userā€™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 thatā€™s necessary in order to support userā€™s profile disks. This blog post will aim to show you a potential solution in a scenario. In general,...