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Synchronizing Disabled User Accounts Between Active Directory Domains (forest) Using PowerShell

Synchronizing Disabled User Accounts Between Active Directory Domains (forest) Using PowerShell

Managing multiple domains within an organization can be a complex task even more during migration phases which can last some times... One common challenge is ensuring that the user accounts are synchronized across domains, especially when disabling or deleting users in the source domain...

Stephane Thirion

20 Feb 2024 3 min read

Automated Random User Creation Script for Active Directory

Automated Random User Creation Script for Active Directory

If you're working with Active Directory (AD) and need to create multiple users for a reason or another, this script can help you automate the process. This script creates a specified number of random users...

Stephane Thirion

19 Feb 2024 2 min read

Automating Home Directory Settings for Active Directory Users with PowerShell

Automating Home Directory Settings for Active Directory Users with PowerShell

Here is a script that simplifies the process of setting home directories for users in Active Directory. The Script: # Define the log file path $logFilePath = "C:\PathToLogFile\AD_HomeDirectory_

Stephane Thirion

20 Oct 2023 1 min read

Automating Terminal Services Property Updates with PowerShell

Automating Terminal Services Property Updates with PowerShell

Here a simple script that automates the process of updating Terminal Services properties for multiple user objects in Active Directory. The primary objective of this script is to set values

Stephane Thirion

19 Oct 2023 2 min read

Bulk add emails to Active Directory accounts

Bulk add emails to Active Directory accounts

Recently I had to make a lot of changes to Active Directory accounts migrated from several other forests and domains. Emails attribute needed to be created / changed to match the

Stephane Thirion

3 Oct 2023 3 min read

Citrix VDA uptimes

Citrix VDA uptimes

Today I needed to extract the uptime of a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site and gather the data to be able to format it present it in a report

Stephane Thirion

12 Apr 2023 1 min read

Create vmware service account for MCS Citrix

Create vmware service account for MCS Citrix

Creating this service account to allow certain action to be performed by the DaaS or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops infrastructure can take a long time if you can’t

Stephane Thirion

28 Feb 2023 2 min read

Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2019 Server

Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2019 Server

Be careful, the Windows 2019 Server iso have been pulled out, it should be back shortly (Nov-2018) As Microsoft Windows 2019 became (almost) available, this is time again to move

Stephane Thirion

6 Nov 2018 3 min read

XenApp Windows 2016 build report

XenApp Windows 2016 build report

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

Stephane Thirion

25 May 2018 2 min read

Hyper-V 2016 - Add-VMTPM issue

Hello folks, This week I worked with a client to implement BitLocker on guest machines from a Hyper-V host Server 2016. As you certainly know, Microsoft has added a great

Rodolphe Herpeux

28 Oct 2017 3 min read

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

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

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

Rodolphe Herpeux

27 Feb 2017 2 min read

Set acls remotely to a VDI / RDSH Delivery Group

Set acls remotely to a VDI / RDSH Delivery Group

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

Stephane Thirion

5 Apr 2016 2 min read

Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives - XenDesktop

Following up the previous blogs XenDesktop XenApp 7.x – vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync and Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation and continue in automated task, I

Stephane Thirion

4 Apr 2016 2 min read

Expand virtual machines hard disk - automation

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

Stephane Thirion

30 Mar 2016 4 min read

XenDesktop XenApp 7.x - vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync

Several times i had the need to synchronise Virtual Machine notes (vmware) with Active Directory Computer description. As in big environment, different team are managing each of these components, the

Stephane Thirion

30 Mar 2016 2 min read

List XenApp 6.5 hotfixes with PowerShell

This is a classic but needs to be written somewhere so I can find it again when I need it ! First thing, you need to add the XenApp Powershell snapin

Stephane Thirion

15 Apr 2014 5 min read

Citrix XenDesktop 7 - Unattended from scratch

So auto-install and auto join an already XenDesktop 7 Site is cool but what if you need to automate the first DDC installation ? Here is how I did with help

Stephane Thirion

6 Jul 2013 4 min read

Active directory

Windows Server 2012 - Migrating FSMO Roles

I installed one AD when Microsoft Windows Server 2012 was still in Release Candidate with the Datacenter edition, of course since few days my DC was rebooting every hour, the

Stephane Thirion

20 Jan 2013 1 min read