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The curious case of the pinned Microsoft Edge shortcut

The curious case of the pinned Microsoft Edge shortcut

I really love the new Microsoft Edge browser! Most of all because we now have a modern browser which is supported by Microsoft in a server operating system, but also because we are now able to integrate our Microsoft Azure AD/Office 365 account with Edge, which among other things enables favorites and password sync. UPDATE – 06-06-2020 (June 6th 2020): I did not do proper testing during my last update, rather embarrassing. This means, that you will still get a…

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Installing FireFox

Installing FireFox

In this article I’ll show you how to install and configure FireFox in a non-persistent Session Host environment. By non-persistent I mean in a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop setup deployed either via Citrix Provisioning or via Citrix Machine Creation Services. However you should be able to use this guide in Microsoft RDS and VMware Horizon as well. During my research and testing of FireFox I have of course become more familiar with the browser, and it is also currently…

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Citrix Published Apps migration script

Citrix Published Apps migration script

Recently I was working on a XenApp and XenDesktop 7.9 upgrade project. The customer didn’t want to touch the existing 7.9 environment, as it was a production environment with around 1000 concurrent users from different parts of the world. Instead a new XenApp and XenDesktop 7.18 site was created and we had to create everything manually in the new site. Fortunately, besides the published application, there really wasn’t much to be done. We had to create a couple of Machine…

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Installing Foxit Reader

Installing Foxit Reader

A few weeks ago I came across blog post by Carl Webster on a guide on how to install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. This guide is very detailed and if you are in need of performing an unattended deployment of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, this is probably the only guide you will need. However there are other PDF viewers out there, better viewers in my opinion. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, and versions before DC (11.x, 10.x, 9.x), has become bloated…

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