Stephane Thirion

PowerShell

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_Setting.log" # Start transcript to log the script's output Start-Transcript -Path $logFilePath # Define the target OU and home directory path $targetOU

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 for two crucial Terminal Services properties: TerminalServicesProfilePath and TerminalServicesHomeDirectory for user object. These properties define the profile path and home

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 new domain requirement. As the pattern of the email was know as first letter of the first name and last

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 form, HTML or email. Here is the Powershell code I wrote to do so Add-PSSnapin Citrix* $CtxDelCtrl = "deliverycontrollerFQDN:Port" foreach

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 do it yourself or if you need to do it every week on different project. Often, a check box have

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 the FSMO roles from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019. Before destroying everything to rebuilt, I like to migrate

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 become a task hard to achieve since Windows 2016 / Windows 10 era. With the monthly updates and patches, released tend