Automating the Citrix ShareFile Drive Mapper Install

12 Sep 2016 in Citrix on Drive mapper, Sharefile

Automating the installation of the Citrix ShareFile Drive Mapper requires deploying a code signing certificate to target machines before setup will complete. If you’ve installed the Drive Mapper client, you will have seen the following dialog box during setup:

Windows Store User Experience in the Enterprise in Windows 10

20 Jul 2016 in Microsoft on Windows 10, Windows store

Chicken Little seems to be working overtime when it comes to the Windows Store in Windows 10. I’ve read and heard many different thoughts and approaches to the Store in Windows 10, but I believe that the Store and Universal apps should be embraced. It would; however, be nice to have more control over user interaction with the Store and in-box Universal apps.

Citrix Synergy 2016: UX and the Enterprise Desktop like Oil and Water

01 Jun 2016 in Community on Citrix, Citrix synergy, Performance

I had the pleasure recently to present a session at Citrix Synergy 2016 in Las Vegas with Helge Klein (of uberAgent and UPM fame) on enterprise desktop performance in a session titled: SYN239: UX and the enterprise desktop: like oil and water?. We’ve previously presented on performance related topics with folder redirection, and this year we wanted to take a wider look at performance on an enterprise desktop and how user experience is affected.

Hands On with the Citrix ShareFile Drive Mapper

24 May 2016 in Citrix on Citrix, Sharefile

Citrix recently made the ShareFile Drive Mapper tool available for mapping a drive letter into your ShareFile data available on Windows clients. This is an interesting approach to providing access to ShareFile data which changes the data access approach from sync to on-demand.