Recently, I started a new job where I needed to learn Microsoft’s Azure and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). My friend Claudio Rodrigues recently released his excellent book DAAS The Complete Guide, and I am using his book to guide my learning. At the end of the first chapter, Claudio walks you through creating a site-to-site VPN […]

Version 1.92 21-Sep-2021 Added a message at the end of the script stating if the disconnection from the vCenter server was successful or not Added array error checking for non-empty arrays before attempting to create the Word table for most Word tables Added color $wdColorWhite for Function SetWordCellFormat Added Function OutputRep […]

Version 2.39 11-Sep-2021 Add Function OutputReportFooter Add Parameter ReportFooter Outputs a footer section at the end of the report. Report Footer Report information: Created with: <Script Name> – Release Date: <Script Release Date> Script version: <Script Version> Started on <Date Time in Local Forma […]

Version 6.02 2-Sep-2021 Add array error checking for non-empty arrays before attempting to create the Word table for most Word tables Add Function OutputReportFooter Add Parameter ReportFooter Outputs a footer section at the end of the report. Report Footer Report information: Created with: <Script Name> – Release Da […]

Version 1.13 11-Sep-2021 Added array error checking for non-empty arrays before attempting to create the Word table for most Word tables Added Function OutputReportFooter Added Parameter ReportFooter Outputs a footer section at the end of the report. Report Footer Report information: Created with: <Script Name> – Rele […]

Version 2.02 11-Sep-2021 Added array error checking for non-empty arrays before attempting to create the Word table for most Word tables Added Function OutputReportFooter Added Parameter ReportFooter Outputs a footer section at the end of the report. Report Footer Report information: Created with: <Script Name> – Rele […]

Version 2.04 11-Sep-2021 Added array error checking for non-empty arrays before attempting to create the Word table for most Word tables Added Function OutputReportFooter Added Parameter ReportFooter Outputs a footer section at the end of the report. Report Footer Report information: Created with: <Script Name> – Rele […]

Version 2.51 11-Sep-2021 Added array error checking for non-empty arrays before attempting to create the Word table for most Word tables Added Function OutputReportFooter Added Parameter ReportFooter Outputs a footer section at the end of the report. Report Footer Report information: Created with: <Script Name> – Rele […]

Version 3.07 11-Sep-2021 Added array error checking for non-empty arrays before attempting to create the Word table for most Word tables Added Function OutputReportFooter Added Parameter ReportFooter Outputs a footer section at the end of the report. Report Footer Report information: Created with: <Script Name> – Rele […]

With the Server 2022 template created and added to vCenter, the next step is to create VMs from the template. The decision is whether to use Server 2019 or 2022. I prefer to use the latest server OS  when creating new VMs. The decision rests on whether the software vendor for the software used on the new VMs supports the latest serv […]

With the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2022, I added this new article to the series. You can download Server 2022 from MSDN/Visual Studio or the Microsoft Evaluation Center. I downloaded the ISO and uploaded it to my vCenter ISO data store. As of 28-Aug-2021, only vCenter 7.02 U2 supports Server 2022. Citrix XenServer 8.2, at […]

I believe I have documented everything I can find or figure out how to find using the Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) Version 18.1 PowerShell implementation.  It took me 15 days to update the 2.10 script based on RAS 18.0 to 2.50 and handle all the updates and additions to the 18.1 PowerShell. As I hope you can tell from t […]

Version 1.14 29-Jul-2021 Added Computer policy ICA\Multi-Stream Connections\Multi-Port Policy Profile Management\Advanced settings\Enable credential-based access to user stores Profile Management\Advanced settings\Replicate user stores – Paths to replicate a user store Profile Management\File system\Large File Handling List […]

Version 3.28 28-Jul-2021 Added Computer policy ICA\Multi-Stream Connections\Multi-Port Policy Profile Management\File system\Large File Handling List – Files to be created as symbolic links Added User policy ICA\Browser Content Redirection\Allow Bidirectional Content Redirection ICA\Browser Content Redirection\Allowed URL […]

Version 2.43 29-Jul-2021 Added Computer Policy ICA\Graphics\Dynamic windows preview Profile Management\Enable profile streaming for folders Profile Management\Advanced settings\Enable credential-based access to user stores Profile Management\Advanced settings\Replicate user stores – Paths to replicate a user store Profile M […]

Version 1.49 21-Oct-2021 Add Computer policy Profile Management\Profile container settings\Enable local caching for profile containers Profile Management\Profile container settings\Folders to exclude in profile container Profile Management\Profile container settings\Folders to include in profile container Added CVAD 2109/7.31 […]

Version 3.06 27-Jul-2021 Add new Function ProcessOUsForBlockedInheritance to add a report section for OUs with GPO Block Inheritance set Add new Function ProcessSYSVOLStateInfo to show the SYSVOL state for each DC as an Appendix Added by MBS, HTML codes for AlignLeft and AlignRight Update Function AddHTMLTable Update Function Forma […]

I spent 688 hours on the article series and another 50 hours getting this PDF edited and created. Along the way, Grammarly kept finding issues to correct. All the corrections are also in the posted articles. The PDF is 1,335 pages, has well over 1,500 images, and is 42MB. I updated the PDF last on 22-Sep-2021. You can always find the […]

Version 3.05 6-Jul-2021 Add fixes provided by Jorge de Almeida Pinto Fixed the way the $Script:AllDomainControllers array is built Fixed getting Fine-grained Password policies to work in a multiple domain/child domain forest Change the CompanyName parameter so that HTML and Text output can use it. (requested by Michael B. Smith […]

Version 3.27 3-Jul-2021 Added Computer policy Profile Management\Advanced settings\Enable credential-based access to user stores Profile Management\Advanced settings\Replicate user stores – Paths to replicate a user store Profile Management\File system\Synchronization\Accelerate folder mirroring Profile Management\Profile cont […]