A feature that has been requested in all the XenApp documentation scripts for a good while is the ability to print a specific section of the report. This feature, a couple of bug fixes and several enh

Currently there are ten documentation scripts that I maintain. There are more that need to be created. I love creating and working on these scripts to make all our lives easier when it comes to docu

Greetings, New updates to all my documentation scripts will soon be released.  There are some things you need to know first. This is the last update for the XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2003 script.

For my Active Directory (AD) documentation script, I needed to enumerate all Trusts for a Domain. I found a script on TechNet but it had issues. I fixed the issues but I cannot post it as a solution o

For my Active Directory documentation script, if the user requests hardware inventory for the domain controllers, the user must run the script with domain administrator credentials.  How do you deter

In a previous article, I changed my lab’s PVS Farm to use SQL database mirroring.  Since that has been done it is time to change my XenDesktop 7.1 Site to also use SQL database mirroring.  I

I received an email from a reader asking me if I had ever changed a production Provisioning Services (PVS) database from a single database to use mirroring. I had not, so I thought this was a good tim

Yeah, I know.  I just updated the script a couple of days ago and here is another update.  Well, I just couldn’t stand it that the script couldn’t support sending email over anything but

At a recent XenDesktop and PVS project we ran into an issue where even though DHCP Options 66 and 67 were configured, we could not get rid of the PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout error.  This short article

While speaking at the vCommunity events in the Northeast USA put on by Robert Morris and the fine folks at Advantec Global Services, Inc (http://www.advantec.us/), several script users asked if I coul

Microsoft recently released their Windows Management Framework 4 which includes PowerShell 4.0.  I recently made sure all the current and future scripts worked with PowerShell Version 3. The foll

I am in the process of creating V4 of the PVS and XenApp documentation scripts.  As part of the process I wanted to make sure all the current and future scripts worked with PowerShell Version 3. The

Ever since I started working with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in July 2001, I have always wondered what should be configured in the Default Domain Group Policy Object (GPO).  I have had a couple

In my 10 Things in AD… presentations, I talk about the importance of having the domain controller that holds the Primary Domain Controller Emulator (PDCe) role configured as the authoritative time s

At Briforum 2013 Chicago, after my session on More Things in AD…, someone asked me a question.  The question was “What happens to the FSMO roles when the domain controller that holds them is demo

Greetings, If you came to my presentation at BriForum 2013 in Chicago, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information. Michael B.

Citrix released Provisioning Services version 7 (PVS7) with support for running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012.  Server 2012 has a really nice new feature called Group Managed Service  Accounts (g

In updating the PVS documentation script to add support for PVS7, I ran into an issue with getting the McliPSSnapin.dll registered.  This brief article explains how to resolve this issue. The Provis

Greetings, If you came to my presentation at E2E 2013 in Copenhagen, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information. Michael B. S

Greetings, If you came to my presentation at Synergy 2013 in Los Angeles, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information. Michael