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VMware vCenter Documentation Script Update Version 1.91
#Version 1.9 7-May-2020 Add checking for a Word version of 0, which indicates the Office installation needs repairing Change color variables $wdColorGray15 and $wdColorGray05 from [long] to [int] Cha
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Citrix XenMobile Documentation Script Version 1.04
May 1, 2020
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#Version 1.04 1-May-2020 Change prompt ‘Please provide url of the XMS Server’ to ‘Please provide the FQDN of the XMS Server’ Webster: Add checking for a Word version of 0, whi
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Update Active Directory DNS Reverse Lookup Zones from Sites and Services Subnets (Update-ReverseZonesFromSubnets.ps1 V1.10)
April 29, 2020
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#Version 1.10 29-Apr-2020 Cleaned up some code and typos driving my OCD up the wall Reformatted the terminating Write-Error messages to make them more visible and readable in the console I put this
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Find Services Using a Domain Account on Specified Computers in Microsoft Active Directory (Get-ServiceAccounts V1.10)
April 29, 2020
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#Version 1.10 29-Apr-2020 Add email capability to match other scripts Update Help Text with examples Add ScriptInfo Parameter Add code to show Script Options and write out Script Info file Chan
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Microsoft Configuration Manager 2012 R2 PowerShell Documentation Script Version 2.38
April 28, 2020
#Version 2.38 8-May-2020 Add checking for a Word version of 0, which indicates the Office installation needs repairing Change color variables $wdColorGray15 and $wdColorGray05 from [long] to [int] Ch
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Microsoft Active Directory Health Check PowerShell Script Version 2.08
April 28, 2020
#Version 2.08 8-May-2020 Add checking for a Word version of 0, which indicates the Office installation needs repairing Change color variables $wdColorGray15 and $wdColorGray05 from [long] to [int] Ch
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New Script: Update Active Directory DNS Reverse Lookup Zones from Sites and Services Subnets (Update-ReverseZonesFromSubnets.ps1)
April 20, 2020
While Active Directory (AD) does not need DNS Reverse Lookup Zones, most Citrix and VMware products do. If you are visiting my website, you probably use Citrix and VMware products. If you have heard
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VMware vCenter Documentation Script Update Version 1.90
January 8, 2020
#Version 1.9 8-Jan-2020 Added Function TextHeatMap Added missing HTML and Text output and fix text output in all Process and Output functions Added missing Word/PDF data to all Process and Output fun
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New Script: Backup VMware Virtual Distributed Switches V1.00
January 8, 2020
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I wrote an article on how to Backup the vCenter Server Appliance using NFS and then needed to figure out how to restore the backup. In VMware’s article on restoring a vCenter server, I saw this:
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New Script: Find Services Using a Domain Account on Specified Computers in Microsoft Active Directory (Get-ServiceAccounts V1.00)
December 19, 2019
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One of the questions asked when I am either doing Active Directory (AD) remediation work or preparing a customer for an AD migration is “what domain accounts are used by what services and on wha
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New Script: Set-DNSScavengeServer
November 1, 2019
I do a lot of Active Directory Health Check and Remediation projects. Going all the way back to my first conference presentation, 95% of Active Directory (AD) issues trace their roots to DNS. One of t
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Microsoft DNS Documentation Script Update Version 1.11
October 25, 2019
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#Version 1.11 25-Oct-2019 Fixed the sorting of Root Hint servers thanks to MBS Fixed the sorting on Name Servers You can always find the most current script by going to https://www.carlwebster.com/
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Documenting Citrix StoreFront with Microsoft PowerShell Version 4.00
October 25, 2019
v4.00 October 23, 2019 Re-arranged site aggregation output. Added hardware information for all StoreFront servers in the group. Added software information and Citrix services for all StoreFront serve
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Get-GPOBackupAndReports PowerShell Script V1.23
September 12, 2019
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#Version 1.23 12-Sep-2019 Add a Rename parameter switch. (Thanks to Jani Kohonen for this suggestion) If a GPO name contains any of the following characters, <>:”\/|?*, replace the charac
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Citrix NetScaler Documentation Script V2.60
July 8, 2019
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#Version 2.60 28-Aug-2018 This update has been sitting on Github for almost a year, so I figured it was time to release it. This is the last update to this old script. The 2.60 update adds support for
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Get Broker Invalid Accounts V2.00
June 18, 2019
Version 2.00 18-June-2019 Add support for -WhatIf and -Confirm Add switch -RemoveInvalidAccounts Add switch -UpdateNameCache with a 30-second wait At the end of the script, show: Count of the unique
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Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8+ Documentation Script Update Version 2.25
June 17, 2019
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Version 2.25 17-Jun-2019 Added new Computer policy settings missed in earlier versions Profile Management\File system\Synchronization\Profile container – List of folders to be contained in pr
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Get Broker Invalid Accounts V1.10
June 8, 2019
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#Version 1.10 8-June-2019 Added a line to the final output that shows the number of unique orphaned SIDs or invalid account names found Figure 1 Please let me know if there is anything else that sho
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New Script: Get-BrokerInvalidAccounts for Event ID Error 505 Citrix ConfigSync Service
May 14, 2019
There you are minding your own business when you (for once) look at the event logs on your delivery controllers. Much to your dismay, what do you see? Hundreds if not thousands of errors in the Applic
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New Script: Documenting Citrix Federated Authentication Services with Microsoft PowerShell V1.00
May 13, 2019
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The Citrix Federated Authentication Service (FAS) is a privileged component designed to integrate with Active Directory Certificate Services. It dynamically issues certificates for users, allowing the
May 7, 2020
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