Many people have asked me where they can get copies of the PowerShell documentation scripts. To make it easier to find, I have linked to all of them in this one article.
August 4, 2011
Welcome
Hello, faithful readers. After writing for dabcc.com for 2.5 years, I have returned to my roots at CarlWebster.com, home of the Accidental Citrix Admin. I truly enjoyed writing for DABCC. It was a blast. But a new party has begun at CarlWebster.com (and Joe Shonk is paying for the drinks <grin>). So stay tuned to [...]
January 1, 2012
Web Site Statistics through December 31, 2011
This short article is to show the Top 20 Articles, Top 20 Countries, Top 10 Referral sites and various web site statistics.
December 12, 2011
Using One Citrix Web Interface Site with Multiple XenApp Farms
I frequent Experts Exchange (http://www.experts-exchange.com/) and because of my status there, I often receive questions. Some of the questions have a common theme. Such as: “How do I show published applications to my users when I have multiple XenApp farms?” “How can I use Web Interface to migrate users to a new XenApp farm while [...]
November 3, 2011
Learning to Migrate a Citrix XenApp 6.x Data Store from SQL Server Express to SQL Server
When a Citrix XenApp 6.x Farm is created, by default, the data store is created on the first server of the Farm using an SQL Server Express database. This article will teach you how to: Backup an SQL Server Express data store, Create a new File DSN for a SQL Server data store, Migrate to the [...]
November 1, 2011
Three Years of Writing and Blogging
In October 2008, I went to the Citrix Summit in Orlando. There I attended a XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 Hands-on lab taught by Jo Harder of Citrix. Later during the Summit I saw Jo standing in the hallway outside the lab and got up the courage to talk to her. I told Jo I was interested in writing [...]
October 9, 2011
XenApp 6 and 6.5 Documentation Scripts Updated October 9, 2011
Fellow CTP Wilco van Bragt, e-mailed me and told me that in my XenApp 6.5 script the Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) policy setting was not formatted properly. It took a little while to figure out how to work with the XML data returned by that policy setting. This also needed to be fixed in [...]
October 9, 2011
XenApp 5 Documentation Script Updated October 9, 2011
Fellow CTP Wilco van Bragt, e-mailed me and told me that in my XenApp 6.5 script the Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) policy setting was not formatted properly. While looking into this issue, I found that I had not even included the HMR settings in the XenApp 5 script. In XenApp 5, the HMR settings [...]
October 7, 2011
Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6.5 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
A customer site I was at recently needed their new XenApp 6.0 farm documented. I remembered reading about Citrix having some PowerShell “stuff” for XenApp 6.0 so I started searching. I came across a short article by Michael Bogobowicz Send Farm Server & Application Inventory By Email — XA6 PS Script located at http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148703582. That [...]
October 4, 2011
XenApp 6 Scripts Have Been Updated
While creating the XenApp 6.5 script and article, I came across numerous typos in the original XenApp 6 files. I have corrected the typos (i.e. priniting) in the XenApp 6 script and recreated the signed copy of the script also. I have also updated the XenApp 6 article with the corrections. Updated scripts: http://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-xenapp-farm-documentation-scripts/ Update [...]
October 3, 2011
Documenting a Citrix XenApp 5 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
A customer site I was at recently needed their XenApp 5 farm documented. I remembered reading about Citrix having some PowerShell “stuff” for XenApp 5 so I started searching. I came across a short article by Michael Bogobowicz Send Farm Server & Application Inventory By Email — XA6 PS Script located at http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148703582. That short [...]
September 30, 2011
How To Digitally Sign a Microsoft PowerShell Script with a Third-Party Code Signing Certificate
I recently wrote an article on using Microsoft PowerShell to document a Citrix XenApp 6.0 farm. I am also in the process of finishing up follow-up articles for XenApp 5 and XenApp 6.5. One of the options I wanted to make available is a digitally signed copy of the script used in that article. As [...]








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