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.

Configuring Remote Desktop Certificates for OS X Clients

19 May 2016 in Microsoft on Certificates, Os x

Windows has supported TLS for server authentication with RDP going back to Windows Server 2003 SP1. When connecting to a Windows PC, unless certificates have been configured, the remote PC presents a self-signed certificate, which results in a warning prompt from the Remote Desktop client. An environment with an enterprise certificate authority can enable certificate autoenrollment to enable trusted certificates on the RDP listener, thus removing the prompt. To get OS X clients to accept the certificate takes a little extra configuration not required on Windows clients.

Enabling App-V and UE-V in Windows 10 Enterprise 14316

12 Apr 2016 in Microsoft on App-v, Ue-v

Enabling the App-V client and UE-V client in Windows 10 Enterprise Build 14316 via PowerShell and viewing the behaviour of filter drivers for each client.

An Intel NUC6i5SYB for My Home Lab

10 Apr 2016 in Hardware on Intel nuc, Nuc6i5syb

I’ve recently added a new PC to my home lab - the Intel NUC6i5SYB, to replace a Lenovo laptop that I’ve been using to host VMs on Hyper-V. In this article, I’ll cover an overview of the NUC, how I’ve configured this device and some details on performance.