Carl Webster

August 2017 Every now and then, people ask me about the lab environment.  This article will give you an update on what is in my lab since the December 2016 article.

WHEW! So much community input is in this script. I didn’t think I was ever going to get this “minor” update completed. By the time I finished updating the script with: the changes Jim Moyle made to the Script Template and then Brandon Mitchel’s updates for 1.x script and then the changes for 7.14 (I […]

December 2016 Every now and then, people ask me about the lab environment.  This article will give you an update on what is in my lab since the July 2013 article.

I have received numerous emails and comments from people having issues running the Active Directory (AD) documentation script in a forest that contains multiple domains. I finally got off my lazy rear end and took the time to figure out the issue and solution.

Greetings, If you came to my presentation at Citrix Synergy 2016 in Las Vegas, thanks for being there. The room was fairly full for being the next to last session on the last day of Synergy with a beer crawl starting at the same time. Thanks to all who stayed after the session and asked […]

Barry Schiffer and Iain Brighton are pleased to release Version 3.0 of the NetScaler documentation script. #Version 3.0 24-may-2016 Uses Nitro API to connect to NetScaler instead of ns.conf Microsoft Office 2016 support NetScaler 11.0 support Documents hardware revision Documents NetScaler Edition Documents SSL Certificates, including expiry date Shows all policies, including default Shows all […]

Greetings, I am very excited to announce that on May 23, 2016 I am a member of the Choice Solutions (Choice) family. Choice has offered me the position of Sr. Solutions Architect, a title I do not feel worthy of. I have done several projects for Choice and feel very comfortable joining the Choice family. […]

One of the nice things about being an independent consultant is the new stuff learned while on projects. I learned some new information about Site to Zone Mapping I wanted to share with you.

This is a very minor change. While doing an Active Directory assessment recently, I realized that I did not include the DHCP DNS dynamic update credentials in the report. Minor gripe with Microsoft. In the DHCP console, the DHCP DNS dynamic update credentials are set at the protocol level. But set the credentials for one […]

Version 1.14 26-Jan-2016 Updated Exchange schema versions to include Exchange 2013 CU7/8/9 and Exchange 2016 http://eightwone.com/references/schema-versions/ Updated AD schema versions to include Server 2016 Technical Preview http://marc-lognoul.me/windows/windows-server-active-directory-schema-versions/ Fixed typo in variable name that prevented the table for Site Links from being created Site Link table shows all possible site link options https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc223552.aspx GPOs by OU […]

Session prelaunch is a feature of XenApp 6.5 that was eventually brought back to the FMA architecture. So, what’s it all about again? The basic goal is to improve user experience. How does it do that? With any normal published application, after clicking the icon or shortcut the session starts, profile is loaded, policies applied, […]