#fslogix

How to Implement Outlook Cached Mode with FSLogix profiles by @JacqBens

If you’re among the many who’ve jumped on the FSLogix bandwagon to manage user profiles in your Microsoft WVD, Citrix CVAD, etc. VDI environments or elsewhere, you’ll likely have come across this FSLogix (not-really-a-)policy setting, “Set Outlook cached mode on successful container attach”. Makes perfect sense:  let FSLogix decide whether Outlook uses cached mode vs. online mode depending on…

Best ways to Shrink and Optimize FSLogix Profile VHD files

This is the FSLogix Magic Hammer You Didn’t Know You Had! by Jacques Bensimon As you probably know, as a result of the Microsoft acquisition and of the generous licensing terms that followed, FSLogix Apps has quickly become the go-to profile management technology in many enterprises, especially for VDI and cloud deployments.  It also doesn’t hurt that it’s an elegantly engineered product that “ju…

Looks like there is a new patch for FSLogix out. Release 2004 (2.9.7349.30108). This patch version is basically a giant list of fixes. ~17 various bugs and issues squashed. No new features though as far as I can tell. The upgrade process is as straight forward as the installation process. Just replace the agent with the new binaries and you will be good to go.

If you haven’t had a…

VMware User Environment Manager (aka Dynamic Environment Manager)

The end of year is coming up and I’m cleaning out all of my Evernote archives and getting all of my posts up and out the door.  All those screenshots I took all year round need to be posted…

This post is the easy installation of VMware User Environment Manager.    UEM has been rebranded Dynamic Environment Manager but I haven’t been installing it much lately.   Since FSLogix has become *freefrom

Microsoft Application Layering using MSIX.

Microsoft purchased FSLogix in late 2018 and it looks like at this year’s annual conference, IGNITE 2019, we might have some sneak peeks of the fruits of that talent acquisition.  I’ve been using FSLogix at a ton of clients since the immediate result of the purchase basically made it free for most/all enterprise Microsoft customers. FSLogix is a container-based solution that allows…

VMware App Volumes and FSLogix container conflicts resolved.

I have a client where we have implemented a full VMware Horizon VDI solution.  This solution consists of VMware Horizon, User Environment Manager and App Volumes (along with UAGs of course).  The whole suite of products working in harmony to give the users an excellent tailored VDI experience.  With the recent acquisition of FSLogix by Microsoft, we decided to see how we could raise the bar even…

A Brief History of User Profiles …and an Idea for Microsoft!

Here is a great piece written by Jacques Bensimon. 

Before getting into it, let me stress that this is nota survey of all available (native and third-party) Windows user profile “solutions” out there, nor is it a description of their inner workings, details & caveats, configuration, resource requirements, costs, etc.  It is, at best, an attempt to share a broad classification that I’ve found…

Windows Virtual Desktop and FSLogix - What you need to know? #MVPBuzz

Expanding on my last post on Windows Virtual Desktop,  let’s talk about FSLogix.  So, let start at the beginning, FSLogix was founded by Randy Cook and Kevin Goodman, VDI industry veterans, tackling user experience problems with virtual desktops.

FSLogix was one of the first along with Liquidwareto use virtual hard disks as a way to migrate the user’s profile data between virtual desktops and…