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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

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 feature that allows you to add a TPM virtual chip to the guest machines without the host server having a

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 has been a pleasure in all the project we had to work on together. This week I worked at a

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 a follow up to Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives – XenDesktop , Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation , XenDesktop XenApp 7.