A reader, Corey Tracey, emailed me and asked me if there was way to run the PVS V2 script from one computer against multiple untrusted domains that each contain a PVS Farm.  Turns out there was a way but it was not an easy task.

The PVS PowerShell documentation shows the McliRun –SetupConnection has parameters that will handle Corey’s request.  From the Citrix Provisioning Services  6.1 PowerShell Programming Guide:

Setup of the SOAP Server Communication

Unless the defaults are fine, use this command to set the values for the SOAP Server connection:

Mcli-Run SetupConnection -p name=value[, name2=value2]

Setup the SOAP server connection that will be used for the MCLI and PowerShell command line interfaces.

-p

Parameters needed for this Run.

Optional

server          Server used for the connection.  Default=localhost

port             Port used for the connection.  Default=8000

user             User used for the connection.  Default=Current user

domain       User domain used for the connection.  Default=Current user

password    User password used for the connection.  Default=Current user

Unfortunately, the pathetic piece of crap that Citrix calls the PVS PowerShell implementation made this much more difficult than it should have been to implement.  I really hope one of these days  Citrix will fix their pathetic PowerShell implementations for both PVS and XenDesktop.  Citrix should have and could have done a better job with their PowerShell work.    The teams at Citrix who create these PowerShell implementations should have and take more pride in their work.

There are two ways to enter the new parameters.  All three parameters (User, Domain, Password) can be entered or just the User.  If  just the User is entered, the script will prompt for Domain and Password.

Corey tested this on his multiple untrusted domains and said the script worked flawlessly.

The changes I made to the V2 PVS script are very minor.  I changed the internal version number to 2.03 but left the filename unchanged.

If you have any suggestions for the script, please let me know.  Send an e-mail to webster@carlwebster.com.

NOTE: This script is continually updated.  You can always find the most current version by going to https://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation-scripts/