In the last installment in this series, we explored the way Microsoft has designed Windows to have its AppX packages operate in different ways, even if the user context...
September 28, 2020: Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) had an outage. The outage occurred between 2:25PM PST and 5:23PM PST and affected authentication servi...
Do you know what AppX packages are? I don’t think most IT people do. AppX packages are applications installed on Windows, but the AppX (or MSIX) format is unique. It...
Group Policy can be a tricky beast, even in the best of cases. When I worked in Healthcare, logon duration was a critical topic. An aggressive idle and disconnect polic...
Have you heard of Windows Virtual Desktop? We bet you have! It’s a service, first released in March 2019, from Microsoft Azure. Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) brokers co...
ControlUp 8.1.5 has dropped and is available for download now! For a small release, this is a big one! ControlUp has developed some exciting new features to give you more...
G. I. Joe used to say that knowing is half the battle. Ain’t that the truth? Analyzing logon duration is among the biggest challenges in the EUC space. How long is too ...
We all know that it’s getting harder and harder to tell what day—or even what month!—it is anymore, but we checked, and it’s time for ControlUp’s Script of the ...
I worked for Alberta Health Services for seven years as a Citrix Administrator. In that role, I learned the differences between working in IT for a government entity vers...
Slow logons are a bane to EUC users. It’s one of those metrics where you can count the instances, measure how long they took, multiply it by your employee’s hourly ra...
Welcome to a new regular feature on the ControlUp blog. Every month, we’ll feature an interview with a member of the ControlUp community that submitted a script which w...
Have you ever done a jigsaw puzzle and found that you’re missing just one piece? It’s just one piece, but it’s a gaping hole right in the middle of the pict...