Windows 11 Start Menu Layout Group Policy

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Windows 11 has launched today and it wasn’t long before I spotted some request for rearranging the start menu from the new centre layout to the traditional start menu on the left which can be pushed through a group policy or similar. Procmon to the rescue which found the following Reg location that handles this, so you can create a group policy preference etc configure you preference for new or traditional start button layout. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\TaskbarA1 Setting this dword code to “1” applies puts the start layout to the centre while applying “0” to this value moves the start menu back to the left hand side. Author: Dale Scriven
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Citrix Studio access during an outage

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When you have a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop site with multiple zones, all zones are not created equally and this can affect Citrix Studio access during an outage. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops uses a concept of Primary and satellite zones. When a failure occurs within the Primary zone meaning that either all the delivery controllers are down or disconnected from the SQL databases Citrix Studio becomes unavailable. While restoring the primary zone controllers to a working state should be the main concentration point the environment may have been designed to be highly available so the satellite sites can continue to run and potentially require business as usual type access. Luckily there is a simple powershell command that you can run on one of the surviving satellite zone contRead More…