As in my previous post we are querying the Citrix monitordata tables in SQL instead of doing web queries against ODATA because it is super fast. The script needs to run as a user who has at least read rights to the database. Just like the original it will query the monitordata tables to gather […]
CLICK HERE FOR UPDATED VERSION My boss wanted a report to show the usage of our XenDesktop environment (desktop sessions only), so I wrote a script that queries the delivery controller once per minute to get sessions. It then writes that information to an .xml file, and then I have another script that reads the […]
This will be short and sweet (hopefully sweet). If you have a session recording server setup you may notice that the entries/files don’t go away on their own. Here is how to clean them up: Just create a scheduled task to run the code below once per day (as system – elevated): C:\Program Files\Citrix\SessionRecording\Server\Bin\icldb.exe remove /RETENTION:7 […]
If you have tried to use Windows 10 in XenDesktop with Citrix Profile Management you have probably run into two major issues. The Issues The first issue is the start menu… which is now a database located at %localappdata%\TileDataLayer\Database. At logoff when profile manager tries to copy it off it can’t due to services locking the […]
Thank you Microsoft for changing fundamental things about your operating system, with little or no regard to those of us running in an RDS/XenApp type environment. Check out this technet article. In this article it states how changes have been made. “In Pre-Win 8, apps could set the default handler for a file type/protocol by […]
Have you ever looked at director and saw a user had a very long login, and wondered how the hell you could find out who that was? I wrote a script to help you out a bit! Here is the script Read it! There are places you will have to edit to allow it to run […]
Have you ever excluded a directory after the fact, and realized that Citrix Profile Manager does not remove the directory from the store? Have you noticed “AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore” or “AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent” filling up with tons of small files/empty folders – most of which are old as dirt (delaying logon)? Have you pulled out your hair over […]
As a Citrix CSP, having a good set of scripts to deploy a base environment is critical. Setting up 50 environments by hand would take far more time than with good scripting. Now that I’ve finally had some time to sit down and not be working on 6.5 stuff, I have been able to write […]
Sacha Thomet who was one of my competitors for the “Geekovation” contest at Synergy (he won!) wrote a PVS documentation script (http://blog.appcloud.ch/citrix-pvs-healthcheck/). He tweeted a revision, and after looking at the code I decided to try my hand at it. I have to give credit to Remko Weijnen (http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2012/02/29/convert-mcli-output-into-powershell-objects/) for the code to change the […]
Another Netscaler – Powershell script leveraging Nitro! This script will create a Cipher Group with all the right Cipher Suites (depending on VPX\MPX), or let you select one you have already created, and assign it to any ssl vserver. NOTE: Very important!! If you do this to a XD/XA gateway – all users connected through […]