How to Determine the Security Zone with the GetSecZone Utility
Here’s another great utility from our friend Jacques Bensimon.Over the years, the security zone to which the current page belongs has disappeared from the Internet Explorer status bar,…
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Huge Windows 10/2016 improvement!
Great guest post from Jacques Bensimon, the undisputed King of bespoke Citrix implementations. Despised by project managers and equally loved and adored by users for making sure the…
Running Thin without the Office Suite … and not turning back!
Here’s another great little utility/hack from Jacques Bensimon! About a year and a half ago, I jettisoned my laptop for most on-site client work in favor of a…
Total Uninstall — A paean to the most indispensable IT tool I know!
Here is a great product write-up by my colleague Jacques Bensimon. It is said that LBJ, who famously favored a powerful walk-in shower that came at him from…
Throw-Back Thursday Post –Need to restart Explorer shell Gracefully?
Sometimes you need to restart Explorer to get things straightened out on your desktop. Maybe the Notification Area is losing it or you want to refresh your Quick Launch. Whatever…
Dude, where’s my Citrix Client Printers Utility?
Time marches on and it’s time to upgrade your XenApp Servers. 7.x, here we come. But your users have been nicely trained to use the Citrix Client Printers…
Stopping that unstoppable service!
A client (and friend) contacted me recently with a challenge. Following what we assume was a bad pattern update, his Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection service (aka Forefront…
Centralized policy definitions – Bad idea! … with a remedy.
On several occasion in the past few years (and twice in the past month, probably the result of interest in piloting Windows 10 and/or Office 2016), I noticed…
New IPM utility Net2SwapFlag — solves infamous KB2536487 issue
Here is a great new utility written by my colleague Jacques Bensimon. Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB2536487, entitled Applications may crash or become unresponsive if another user logs…