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

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

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

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

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

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

I received an email from a reader wanting to get my Citrix XenApp 6.5 Farm PowerShell documentation script to work remotely.  After I wrote my original script and article, Citrix updated the XenApp 6

At a customer site recently, I needed a way to list all the Enabled Windows Firewall Inbound Rules.  I could not get what I needed by using the Windows netsh advfirewall monitor show firewall rule na

A customer site I was at recently needed their XenDesktop 4 farm documented.  Since I had already created PowerShell scripts to document the various versions of XenApp, I figured a XenDesktop script

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

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.

Have you ever worked with a customer that had multiple Citrix license servers and product editions?  I worked with a client recently that had upgraded their Citrix XenApp product licenses from Enterp