Dec 202017
 

In my environment I have nearly 100 persistent MCS VDAs. Our developers, contractors, and even us IT people need the ability to change things on our VDI desktops (install/uninstall/set registry/create local IIS sites/etc.) and have them persist reboots. Luckily, the only software I have to maintain on these desktops is the VDA itself. That still means when Citrix releases a new version that I want to move to, I have to upgrade almost 100 individual desktops. The last time I had to do this I wanted to rip my hair out, and decided to write a script to automate the task. It has saved me TONS of time, so I want to share it in hopes that it can save someone else some time (and hair).

I wrote the script specifically for my MCS environment, which runs on XenServer, but with a little tweaking it can be modified for any environment.

How it works (the short version):

  1. Gets the computer(s) you set – can be manual input or a delivery controller query
  2. On each computer it will create 2 scripts, and 2 scheduled tasks
    1. The first script loads auto logon info into the registry
    2. The second script handles the vda removal and install
  3. One scheduled task runs once to run the first script and reboot
  4. The second scheduled task runs the second script at logon (first script sets up a user – in my case the local administrator – to logon automatically)

Most things are explained in the script, and this time I’ve also created a youtube video to go through it all/show it in action.

Script
Video

 

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