With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment frequently.  I thought I would show you how, in just a few seconds, I re

One of Jacob’s testers found a bug in the script where the PDF file was not created. This turned out to be a bug in the master template script. While I was fixing the PDF bug I found out that wh

Recently, I was involved in my first HP Moonshot Proof of Concept (PoC). HP Moonshot is a fairly new technology that can be used to provide hosted desktops to users with Citrix XenDesktop 7.x.  If yo

On a recent project, the customer needed a way to see what they had in their numerous Active Directory (AD) forests. I offered to create a script and they gave me permission to do so. After creating t

I am currently creating documentation scripts for Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft DHCP. In doing so, I have learned some new stuff and decided to implement those changes into the current document

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

While testing my XenDesktop 7.1 lab, I had one of my PVS servers powered off.  When I ran the PVS documentation script, I got an error about the server not responding while processing the bootstrap f

Hi again! First of all, the opinions I express below are my own, not necessarily those of the godfather of this website, Carl Webster. Earlier this year, Citrix held Summit, their Partner Conference.

Scenario: You are locked out of the Delivery Services Console or AppCenter or AppCentre and you need in.  How?  There is a tool called SlimJim you can use or you can use one line of PowerShell.  Ob

Updated 14-SEP-2013. One of the most requested features being added to Version 4 of the documentation scripts is support for non-English versions of Microsoft Word.  The script currently supports the

It’s time for another curious case. Let’s set the stage first. We all know the great Smooth Roaming feature, right? Well, we should anyway because that feature is shown in demos at any Cit

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.

I am in the process of rebuilding my lab with Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V 3 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).  This rebuilding project has become quite a learning experien

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

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

I found a Copy and Paste error in the PVS documentation script. This was brought over from the XenApp 6.5 script. The Subject line for the Cover Page (which you only see depending on which Cover Page

I needed to figure out how to run my latest PVS documentation script without having Microsoft Word installed on the PVS server.  This turned out to be much simpler than I thought it would be.  There

Citrix updated CTX129229 on 04-MAR-2013.  The XenApp 6 V3 and XenApp 6.5 V3.1 scripts have been updated to reflect the new recommended hotfixes. One of the updates for the next version of these scri

Two people reported an issue with running the new scripts.  My friend Michael B. Smith helped me find and fix the error.  The PVS, XenApp 5, XenApp 6 and XenApp 6.5 scripts have all been updated.