Disabling Instant Messaging (IM) in Skype for Business 2015

October 31, 2016 / Nick / 2 Comments

This one that was difficult for me to find and google an answer for. All of the answers were for Lync or didn’t work. The organization I work for currently, has to be very careful what messaging tools our users have access to. Because of this, some extra measures have to be taken to disable …

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Citrix HDX Flash Redirection on Dell Wyse Z10D Devices running ThinOS

May 2, 2016 / Nick / 3 Comments

Whenever I spend an extraordinary amount of time troubleshooting something that should be very simple in theory, I am compelled to write something about it in order to save some poor soul the time and frustration from going through what I went through to get to the finish line. With that said, one of my …

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Why upgrade from Atlantis ILIO to Atlantis USX 3.0? The management justification

October 21, 2015 / Nick / 0 Comments

I currently work in an organization where justification of change is key. Any time there is any type of change, upgrade, movement of any sort, the change requires vetting/approval from all angles. Typically this is easy when you’re selling it to fellow IT peers, however sometimes this could be difficult when you’re dealing with the management perspective …

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Upgrading to Citrix VDA to 7.6.300, what hotfixes does it include?

October 15, 2015 / Nick / 1 Comment

Since I couldn’t publish this post on the Citrix forums due to some limitations, I wanted to post it here and reference for those who had the same question as I did. Citrix released version 7.6.300 version of the VDA earlier this month (October 2015). The question was whether or not the previous hotfixes were …

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Getting to Internet Explorer internet options without modifying Group Policy

September 2, 2015 / Nick / 0 Comments

Being someone who takes pride in being able to solve an issue as quickly and thoroughly as possible, it’s led me down a path to find some nifty workarounds, one having to do with troubleshooting Internet Explorer. If you’re in an environment that locks down their Internet Explorer settings menu via Group Policy and doesn’t allow the …

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Getting Citrix Desktop Lock 4.2 to work in your environment

March 7, 2015 / Nick / 6 Comments

After battling the configuration of getting Citrix Desktop Lock to work in our environment, I think I’ve got all the missing pieces documented. For some reason, I had trouble figuring this out even with the Citrix Desktop Lock documentation located here. I got it working in our US domain workstations, then a couple weeks passed …

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Failed to apply Citrix Group Policy, XenDesktop 7.X

December 16, 2014 / Nick / 2 Comments

It’s been a while since my last post, mainly because I’ve been deep in the trenches finalizing the migration of my company’s Brazil datacenter all the way up here in the Northeast. I can probably write an entire 20-part blog post on the growing pains of doing just that, but part of me would rather …

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MSI for Java installations

September 17, 2014 / Nick / 0 Comments

Java is up there with Adobe Flash as one of the most challenging third-party applications to manage in a ‘secure’ enterprise environment. With that said, what makes managing applications in the environment easier, is dealing with them in MSI form. One of the particular challenges with Java is that it comes in it’s own installation …

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Outlook 2010 NK2 / Autocomplete cache troubleshooting

June 16, 2014 / Nick / 0 Comments

Another interesting day here at the office. We encountered an issue where a user’s autocomplete cache, also known as the nickname cache, was completely wiped without any known reason. Apparently there isn’t too much documentation out there on the subject (maybe my googlefu isn’t working well today), most of it refers to older versions of …

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Troubleshooting the XenDesktop Brokering Process

June 9, 2014 / Nick / 0 Comments

Since so many different factors depend on the brokering process, this is a really helpful article that covers troubleshooting just about every angle of the XenDesktop Brokering process. Are your desktops not registering with the DDC? Check this article here (although a little outdated): http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/07/23/troubleshooting-xendesktop-brokering-process-2/