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Field Notes: remove common program groups, cause Notifications issue

During a recent project, we experienced some issues with notifications not working. Outlook was giving notifications. Still, the program isn’t Outlook, but Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15. Looking at the Notifications & Actions settings, it shows “Microsoft Outlook” without an icon and is turned Off; turning it on isn’t possible. It switches back to

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Field notes: The Snipping Tool freezes when selecting options

During a recent project, I encountered an issue where the Snipping Tool would freeze upon clicking the options button. This occurred in a fully patched Windows Server 2022 environment (until KB5035857). After troubleshooting the machine, I found no leads to direct me toward a solution. I then checked all my

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Using Azure Automation to Invite Entra ID B2B Users

In a previous article about using Entra ID B2B users, I needed to set up some user extensions. In that article, I also mentioned that many customers needed to access the environment, which meant that multiple users needed to be changed.As this is an ongoing business and we like to

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Using Entra ID B2B with Citrix Cloud.
Using Entra ID B2B with Citrix Cloud

In a recent project, I designed an environment for a client who offers a published application to a substantial customer base. They expressed their desire to incorporate the use of Entra ID. I recommended the adoption of Entra ID B2B accounts for this purpose. Entra ID B2B accounts enable access

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Setting up a double-hop with Azure AD as IdP

As more and more companies are moving from on-premises environments to a cloud and would like to make the best of their investments, we see a great demand in moving to Azure Active Directory (AAD). AAD gives you some benefits as you could utilize Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with Conditional

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Using Zoom with SBC\VDI

Working from home (WFH) requires having a lot of video calls. I noticed a great demand from users that need to attend or organize a video call. The downside is that there are multiple vendors and that a company can’t force everybody only to use one solution. Users receive invitations

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Looking back at 2020 and Work From Home

The end of 2020 is nearing so it’s the time to look back at this year, I can say it was a hectic year for me as a Consultant. From PoC to production We just started a Proof of Concept (PoC) with a new customer in February to show that

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Creating a Memory dump Citrix MCS/PVS and Hypervisor

When you need to debug some issues with your current deployment, you’re probably asked to create a memory dump. When you’re deployment is a traditional VM than that’s no issue, if you are using PVS than the memory dump is probably disabled because the PVS optimization disabled it or you

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Remote DPI scaling for Windows

With the release of Windows 2016 Microsoft changed the way users could change their DPI size in a Remote Desktop Session, it inherited the setting from the end point. This would be the Laptop/Desktop or Thin Client the users are using to connect to the Remote desktop. When users needed

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Reset Windows Rearm count

When working with Machine Creation Services we discovered that the Clients all have the same CMID. A different CMID is needed to activate using KMS services. We searched for a solution and everyone mentioned rearming the machine, but then we received the message that we can’t rearm. We then searched for a solution

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