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Enable SSL on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912(+) XML Service

February 13, 2020

Stephane Thirion Broker, Certificate, Citrix, cvad, SSL, Virtual Apps and Desktops, XenApp, XML

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This is an updated blog.. For some reason the script was not working anymore on Microsoft Windows 2016 / 2019 with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. So here is an updated script so you can bind a SSL cert to you Delivery Controller XML services It is still not very easy for a new comer...

XenApp Windows 2016 build report

May 25, 2018November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion PowerShell, Windows Build, Windows Version number, XenApp

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Recently I had to make a list of all the build in a XenApp site. A syou might have already noticed, in large enterprise, getting the same OS version / build become a task hard to achieve since Windows 2016 / Windows 10 era. With the monthly updates and patches, released tend to become difficult...

SCCM – Find Devices MAC Address

August 25, 2017November 5, 2019

Rodolphe Herpeux

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Hello Folks, This week I needed to export from SCCM, the devices name and MAC Address to a CSV file. I need this file to create green list into DHCP server. The Green list give permission to have a lease from DHCP server. I will speak of this subject in a futur post. To find...

Script to promote DC with constraints

April 15, 2017November 5, 2019

Rodolphe Herpeux AD DS, Domain controler

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Hello folks, Recently i have defined with colleagues a specifications document for deploy new domain controllers in existing forest. For this deploy, first constraint is fixed replication ports between domain controllers, please see KB Microsoft . Second constraint is to check the minimal hardware system configuration. Third constraint is verify if flux networks are open...

Script to consolidate multiple reverse DNS zones into one principal zone

April 15, 2017November 5, 2019

Rodolphe Herpeux Microsoft, Reverse DNS

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Hello folks, This week i wrote a script for reverse DNS consolidation. This script add entries reverse DNS from a zone to one principal zone. That is s a simple script but it is very effective.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 : impossible to add roles and features

February 27, 2017November 5, 2019

Rodolphe Herpeux error, PowerShell, Scripting, Windows 2012R2, WinRM

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Words from Stephane Thirion : Rodolphe is a friend and also a very smart Microsoft dude, I used to work with him and having such a smart guy on my side has been a pleasure in all the project we had to work on together. This week I worked at a customer for an Active...

Set acls remotely to a VDI / RDSH Delivery Group

April 5, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Acls, automation, Citrix, Microsoft, PowerShell, script, XenApp, XenDesktop

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In the same way as the previous blog post, some more automation to maintain a VDI/RDSH environment, and get back to a controlled and clean environment. This blog is a follow up to Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives – XenDesktop , Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation , XenDesktop XenApp 7.x – vmware / ad...

Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation

March 30, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, disk, diskpart, expand, PowerShell, PVS, scrupt, VDI, vmware, XenApp, XenDesktop

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Sometimes, at some customers’s place, with an infrastructure already in place (XenApp with PVS or XenDesktop VDI pooled with PVS) the D: drive is too small. The drive where you redirect Windows Event Logs, Logs (UPM for example and/or other applications – services) This is a drive where page file is often redirected as well...