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Documentation Scripts Updated for Word 2016 Support
The following scripts have been updated to add support for Word 2016 in all 11 supported languages. Active Directory DHCP Provisioning Services StoreFront (Client script update 7-Oct-2015) VMware vSp
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Inside Webster’s Lab: Creating Active Directory Organizational Units, Users, Groups and Computers Using PowerShell
January 1, 2015
OK, I heard from enough of you that wanted me to do this in PowerShell instead of my batch file. Here is the original article using built-in Windows utilities. This article will show the original ba
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Inside Webster’s Lab: Installing a Domain Controller Using PowerShell
December 31, 2014
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With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I frequently recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment. I thought I would show you how I use PowerShell to install
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Inside Webster’s Lab: Removing Domain Controller Using PowerShell
December 31, 2014
With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment frequently. Sometimes I just need a fresh start and I need to demote my
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XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 Documentation Script Version 4.2 Released
August 5, 2014
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
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Important Information for Those Using My XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 Documentation Script
August 4, 2014
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
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Important Information for Those Using My Documentation Scripts
July 30, 2014
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.
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Finding Domain Trusts in an Active Directory Forest using Microsoft PowerShell
April 21, 2014
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
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Checking if User has Admin Rights When Running a PowerShell Script
April 16, 2014
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
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Changing a Production XenDesktop 7.1 Site to use SQL Mirroring
February 11, 2014
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
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Citrix XenDesktop Personal vDisk Stats using Microsoft Excel and PowerShell V2.1
February 1, 2014
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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
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Summary Report for Citrix XenApp Farms
November 4, 2013
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
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Webster’s Citrix Documentation Scripts and Microsoft PowerShell Version 4
October 25, 2013
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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
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Webster’s Citrix Documentation Scripts and Microsoft PowerShell Version 3
September 10, 2013
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
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Creating a Group Policy using Microsoft PowerShell to Configure the Authoritative Time Server
August 8, 2013
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
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Provisioning Services 7 and Server 2012 Group Managed Service Account
June 29, 2013
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
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Error in the Provisioning Services 7.0 PowerShell Programmer Guide for Windows 8 and Server 2012
June 29, 2013
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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
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Using My Citrix PVS PowerShell Documentation Script with Remoting
March 15, 2013
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
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Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 3
February 21, 2013
The script to document a Citrix XenApp 6 farm has proven to be very popular. I had not always wanted to take the time to create a version of the script that would output to a Microsoft Word document
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Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 2
February 20, 2013
The script to document a Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) farm has proven to be very popular. I have always wanted to take the time to create a version of the script that would output to a Microso
October 5, 2015
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