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Finding Microsoft Folder Redirection Errors Using Microsoft PowerShell V2.0
About a year ago, I released V1.0 of this script and stated if I ever found the time I would update it to not require XenApp 6.5. Finally, I took the time between customer calls to update this script
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Finding Microsoft Home Folder Errors Using Microsoft PowerShell V2.0
May 18, 2017
About a year ago, I released V1.0 of this script and stated if I ever found the time I would update it to not require XenApp 6.5. Finally, I took the time between customer calls to update this scrip
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Finding Group Policy Processing Time Using Microsoft PowerShell V2.0
May 18, 2017
About a year ago, I released V1.0 of this script and stated if I ever found the time I would update it to not require XenApp 6.5. Finally, I took the time between customer calls to update this script
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Finding Service with Account Name Using Microsoft PowerShell V1.0
May 15, 2017
A few months back, I worked on a project where the customer needed to find all services on all servers that used a specific Active Directory (AD) account name. The problem was, they had no idea how th
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Documenting SMS PASSCODE MFA with Microsoft PowerShell and Word Version 1.10
April 17, 2017
Wouter Arts has created a documentation script for SMS PASSCODE MFA. Change Log: #Version 1.10 – 10-April-2017 Added option to email final report file Added optional Dev parameter for script tr
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Nutanix Documentation Script Update Version 1.10
February 28, 2017
Kees Baggerman and I worked to get his Nutanix script updated with the features in other scripts and for changes in Nutanix. #Version 1.10 28-Feb-2017 Added option to email final report file Added op
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Unable to Delete Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.xx Hosting Connection or Resource “There is currently an active background action”
December 31, 2016
A few weeks ago, the town I live in had extremely severe thunderstorms roll through. When the tornado sirens went off and all our mobile devices started screaming “Warning: tornado sighted in yo
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Deploying Printer Drivers for Citrix XenApp
December 22, 2016
Printers and printer drivers aren’t an exiting technology as the latest HDX Features in XenApp 7.12 and so on. But every Citrix admin out there has ran into issues with printers and printer driv
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Citrix NetScaler MAS Documentation Script Version 1.00
December 1, 2016
Andrew McCullough is providing to the community a documentation for the Citrix NetScaler MAS. The script will be maintained by Andrew but housed here with the always growing collection of scripts. And
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Script Download Counts
December 1, 2016
1-Dec-2022 Update Back in October 2022, there was a bad update to the WordPress plugin I use to track the count of downloads that reset all counts to zero. In an attempt to recover the counts, my host
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Using the New Citrix Provisioning Services PowerShell with PVS 7.0, 7.1, 7.6 and 7.6 LTSR
September 12, 2016
I have been told that if you install the Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) 7.7, or later, console on version 7.0 through 7.6 LTSR that you can use the new Citrix PVS PowerShell. You know, the new, re
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Finding Microsoft Home Folder Errors for Citrix XenApp 6.5 Using Microsoft PowerShell
August 26, 2016
Recently on a project, I noticed lots of home folder errors in the customer’s System event log. I offered to take my Folder Redirection Error script and modify it to find home folder errors.
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Documentation Scripts, Windows 10 Anniversary Update, PowerShell Version 5.1 and Broken Cover Pages
August 26, 2016
After receiving reports that Word 2016 Cover Pages were not working for any of the documentation scripts with Windows 10 Anniversary Update and PowerShell Version 5.1, I finally did some testing. This
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Running the Active Directory Documentation Script in a Multiple Domain Forest
August 19, 2016
I have received numerous emails and comments from people having issues running the Active Directory (AD) documentation script in a forest that contains multiple domains. I finally got off my lazy rear
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Microsoft Configuration Manager 2012 R2 PowerShell Documentation Script Version 2.3
July 11, 2016
In June 2013, David O’Brien (Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP) released his Config Manager documentation script. A little while ago, several users emailed me asking for help as they were tr
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Microsoft PowerShell and Nested Try/Catch
April 15, 2016
On a recent project, I learned something new about PowerShell’s Try/Catch. You can nest another Try/Catch in the Catch of the first Try/Catch. When I showed this to my PowerShell mentor, he said
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Finding the Average Group Policy Processing Time Using Microsoft PowerShell V1.1
March 24, 2016
I recently wrote about Finding the Average Group Policy Processing Time Using Microsoft PowerShell and have made a couple of changes to the script. I have added the follow new features: Allows you t
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Create or Update a Group Policy Using Settings From Another Group Policy Using Microsoft PowerShell
March 18, 2016
Over the course of the past several months, I have had several projects where I needed to create, edit, or fix group policies. A problem I ran into was I only needed a subset of the policy settings (S
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Finding the Average Group Policy Processing Time Using Microsoft PowerShell V1.0
March 18, 2016
On a recent project, we thought the group policies being applied were causing slow user logons and application launches. What we needed was a way to determine how long just group policy was taking to
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Finding Microsoft Folder Redirection Errors for Citrix XenApp 6.5 Using Microsoft PowerShell
March 7, 2016
Another issue causing slower logons for users at a recent project was Folder Redirection errors. This article is how I found the issue and how the customer resolved them. [Updated 10-Mar-2016 to hand
May 18, 2017
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