Imagine you are in a Citrix environment where Internet and online access is forbidden. Where it is forbidden by company policy to enable PowerShell Remoting or Windows Remote Management or the Remote Registry service. How do you run diagnostics for the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site using the GUI version of Scout? You don̵ […]

The original purpose of this script was to backup and report on all Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in an Active Directory (AD) domain. That worked well for small domains, but recently I have worked with domains with hundreds of thousands of Organizational Units (OUs) and many thousands of GPOs. This script update makes working with extr […]

In March 2019, I was honored to present at the first CUGC Texas XL event held at the beautiful University of Texas Club. My presentation was on PowerShell Scripting with Webster.  This article shows what I talked about in the second half of my presentation. The week before the CUGC event, I did a Citrix App Layering project for a […]

My Windows 10 management VM received the 1809 release. In the Disk Cleanup utility (cleanmgr.exe), Microsoft added the Downloads folder to the list of items that can be cleaned. Figure 1 That may not be a good thing because if you run V1.00 of this script, or just blindly select every checkbox, you can find yourself missing all your […]

#Version 5.00 14-Dec-2018 Version 5.00 created on June 1, 2015 V5.00 released to the community 14-Dec-2018 Removed minimum requirement for PowerShell V3 Fixed all code to make it work in PowerShell V2 (That was a royal PITA) Removed all SMTP related code as we could not could that code to work with PowerShell V2 (If you think you ca […]

Let’s get this one out there first: Citrix Cloud has enormous potential. But is it living up to that potential? To put it as a football metaphor: I wouldn’t want to be feeding all the “next Messi’s” or “next Ronaldo’s” out there. A series of events triggered this blog post. Or rather: m […]

#Version 1.10 14-September-2018 Fixed issue with Stylebook Content being output in Base64 Fixed issue with Stylebook description containing newline characters breaking  tables If you have any feature requests, suggestions for enhancements or bugs to report, please feel free to contact me on twitter (@andymc84) or email (amcculloug […]

The short answer: yes. The consultant answer: it depends. One could also ask the question “Should the Cloud fail?” My answer is: yes, failures are bound to happen in the Cloud. Why? Because the cloud is designed and built by humans. And we all know humans are not perfect, present company included. A “perfect” […]

Back in April 2009, I wrote an article on installing Adobe Acrobat Reader. A reader reported to me that the process does not work for Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. There were enough changes to the process, I worked through and documented the process so the reader could get Acrobat Reader DC installed. Portable Document Format (PDF) files […]

Every modern-day Citrix admin will probably agree with me. Using Office 365 on Citrix Servers and Desktops can be a challenge, let’s leave it at that. That’s not the topic of this blog post, however. It’s not even a Citrix problem. But again, every Citrix admin will agree on this too; if the problem or issue is pres […]

Arnaud Pain asked me to host his XenMobile documentation script and I am honored to do so. If you have any questions or to request bug fixes or enhancements: arnaud.pain@arnaud.biz @arnaud_pain on Twitter http://arnaudpain.com You can always find the most current script by going to https://www.carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of- […]

Lots of people have requested this script, so I figured I could save myself a lot of emails by putting the script here. There is obviously still a lot of interest in a script for offline processing of NetScaler data. This is a BETA version of 2.60. It is a copy of 2.50 that reads the ns.conf file. The following changes were made fr […]

Back in June 2009, I wrote the original How To Hide Additional Drive Letters article. Recently, someone asked me how to do the same task but with an ADMX file instead of ADM. Following the original example from 2009. Microsoft has KB article 231289 that explains the process to add custom drive letter combinations.  Using KB231298, […]

I have been working with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) since July 2001 and doing AD Health Checks since September 2003. One item I have done hundreds of times, failed on me yesterday during an AD remediation project. I duplicated the problem in my lab and want to document the solution for future reference. I have been speaking at […]

I do a LOT of Active Directory (AD) Health Checks. One of the things I look for are User Settings in the Default Domain Policy. Why? Because Microsoft says only four groups of settings should be configured in the Default Domain Policy. No User Settings are on that list. The User Settings I see in almost every Default Domain Policy a […]

Greetings, If you attended my webinar presented, thanks for being there. This presentation is based on the original presentation presented at Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco and then numerous other places. I updated the material for 2018 and there are 47 reference links provided. You can always find the most current PDF by going […]

Computer XenApp Settings: Enable search index roaming for Outlook – Disabled Rendezvous Protocol – Allowed Computer XenDesktop Settings: Enable search index roaming for Outlook – Disabled Rendezvous Protocol – Allowed User XenApp Settings: Browser Content Redirection Authentication Sites – Blank Us […]

Updated for XenApp/XenDesktop 7.18. I am sure I may have missed something, so if I did, please let me know. You can always find the most current Excel file by going to https://www.carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation-scripts/ Thanks Webster […]

Updated for XenApp/XenDesktop 7.18. I am sure I may have missed something, so if I did, please let me know. You can always find the most current Excel file by going to https://www.carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation-scripts/ Thanks Webster […]

#Version 1.10 1-Jun-2018 Add Parameter MaxZipSize (in MBs) [default is 150 MB] Test combined size of the two Zip files created to see if <= to MaxZipSize If > MaxZipSize, do not attempt the email Backup GPOs one at a time Show the name of each GPO being backed up to show the GPO causing a backup error Figure 1 You can […]