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 hosting provider followed the instructions from the plugin’s author. The download counts are now FUBAR and unreliable. As of 1-Nov-2022, I have been unable to get an accurate count. As of 1-Dec-2022, the counts are so out of whack I do not see a way to recover them and make the numbers accurate. My apologies to those who may depend on the counts, but I can no longer provide an honest set of download numbers.

Sorry.

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I am now tracking the download counts as of the first day of each month. This allows those who contribute scripts and tools to track the counts so they have the data for their community contribution data reported for CTPs, MVPs, vExperts, or employer-requested data.

At the bottom of this article is a table showing the differences in download counts so anyone can see just how popular a particular download is.

Sometime during the night of 5-Nov-2021 and early morning of 6-Nov-2021, the script download count broke 600,000. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. All the script testers, contributors, authors, and I thank you. We are glad you find all the scripts and files useful.

On 28-Sep-2019, the script downloads broke the 500,000 downloads barrier. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Along with the other script authors and contributors, we are glad you find these scripts useful.

On 25-Jan-2018, the script downloads broke 400,000 downloads.

I recently found the original release date for every script and file and calculated the average monthly downloads. I discovered that the scripts and files as of 30-Sep-2022 have had 133 consecutive months where every script has had at least one download. That is ELEVEN+ YEARS of consecutive months with downloads. WOW! Thank you, community, for your support.

In February 2022, I added 13 PDFs to the downloads. While their download counts appear in the total downloads, I do not count the PDFs towards the months of consecutive downloads.

1 September 2019 Script Stats

Note: You may notice a considerable jump from the 1-Feb-2018 to the 1-Mar-2018 download count. Let me explain. In February 2018, I moved all the download files from Dropbox to Citrix ShareFile. Because of that move, I searched everything on my site for the word “dropbox” to change all links to ShareFile. While making the hundreds of required changes, I came across several scripts I had forgotten about and had never put on the Downloads page. One of those scripts had almost 10,000 downloads, and I never knew it. I used Google Analytics going back to June 2013 to get all the download counts for the forgotten scripts. I decided not to spend hours gathering monthly download counts and updating all the counts for 57 months. I was lazy and decided to lump all the new download counts into the February 2018 stats. This decision also means the average daily downloads for February 2018 are skewed.

DownloadName	Count 20221001	Count 20220901	Difference
Active Directory	46508	45545	963
Active Directory Health Check	20726	20453	273
All Scripts Zip File	69135	68940	195
Backup (Export) VMware Virtual Distributed Switches	393	381	12
Citrix Cloud/Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service	2704	2547	157
Citrix Default Computer Policy Settings	5943	5891	52
Citrix Default User Policy Settings	5028	4962	66
Citrix Federated Authentication Service	1221	1193	28
Citrix Get Broker Invalid Accounts	1187	1162	25
Citrix Get Offline Scout Data	504	495	9
Citrix Get PvD Usage Statistics	4108	4091	17
Citrix Get Static Desktop User	395	385	10
Citrix NetScaler MAS	1576	1562	14
Citrix NetScaler New (Nitro API)	15086	14982	104
Citrix NetScaler Old (ns.conf)	17539	17505	34
Citrix Policy Settings	5266	5233	33
Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) New	11796	11644	152
Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) Old	42764	42684	80
Citrix PVS Health Check Script V1	6092	6014	78
Citrix PVS Health Check Script V2	1084	1061	23
Citrix Remove Hosting Connection	814	811	3
Citrix StoreFront	7534	7490	44
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops V2	25406	24850	556
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops V3	4621	4437	184
Citrix XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2003	22029	21986	43
Citrix XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008	20905	20856	49
Citrix XenApp 5 Summary Report	639	638	1
Citrix XenApp 6	52485	52428	57
Citrix XenApp 6 Summary Report	796	791	5
Citrix XenApp 6.5	143757	143599	158
Citrix XenApp 6.5 Summary Report	1420	1412	8
Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.0 through 7.7	21569	21299	270
Citrix XenDesktop 4	5604	5601	3
Citrix XenDesktop 5.x	5737	5698	39
Citrix XenMobile	769	759	10
Create an unlinked Group Policy Object from an imported CSV file	991	976	15
Create Authoritative Time Server GPO	11012	11004	8
Deploy Printer Drivers	890	878	12
Find Duplicate DNS Records	2592	2581	11
Get DNS Info	413	399	14
Get Folder Redirection Errors	1162	1143	19
Get GPO Backup and Reports	2626	2575	51
Get GPO Processing Time	2030	2007	23
Get Home Folder Errors	878	869	9
Get Service Accounts	1077	1032	45
Get Service with Account Name	565	558	7
HideDrives ADMX and ADML Files	584	574	10
HideDrives.adm	3013	3011	2
Hostinfo.zip	851	842	9
Microsoft Configuration Manager 2012 R2	5876	5821	55
Microsoft DHCP	18298	18197	101
Microsoft DNS	7144	7018	126
Nutanix	4280	4256	24
Parallels Remote Application Server V17	296	292	4
Parallels Remote Application Server V18.0	421	406	15
Parallels Remote Application Server V18.1	227	223	4
PDF – 10 Things in Active Directory 2018 Edition Webinar	340	336	4
PDF – BriForum 2012 Chicago Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	178	176	2
PDF – BriForum 2013 Chicago Presentation (More things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	148	146	2
PDF – BriForum 2013 London Presentation (More things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	138	138	0
PDF – Building Webster’s Lab V2	1311	1293	18
PDF – CUGC DC 10+ Things in Active Directory	235	235	0
PDF – E2E 2012 Hamburg, Germany Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	616	616	0
PDF – E2E 2013 Copenhagen AD Presentation (More things about AD you should know)	140	139	1
PDF – Learning the Basics of VMware Horizon 7.12	204	198	6
PDF – Norway CUGtech Host 2016 Presentation	143	142	1
PDF – Post Citrix Synergy 2012 Presentation for AGSI (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)	1012	1010	2
PDF – Synergy 2012 Barcelona Geek Speak Live Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)	141	141	0
PDF – Synergy 2012 San Francisco Geek Speak Live Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)	1258	1257	1
PDF – Synergy 2013 Los Angeles AD Presentation (Be a Hero! More Best Practices for Wildly Successful AD Projects)	145	144	1
PDF – Synergy 2016 Las Vegas Presentation (re)Designing Your Active Directory	152	151	1
Set DNS Info	237	234	3
Set DNS Scavenging Server	440	434	6
Set SageSet=1 for Disk Cleanup	1970	1911	59
SMS PASSCODE MFA	616	612	4
Update Active Directory DNS Reverse Lookup Zones from Sites and Services Subnets	753	732	21
VMware vSphere	15809	15667	142
XenApp Server Health Check	1781	1766	15
XenApp Server Monitor	1176	1169	7
XenGhost.zip	1006	997	9
Total Downloads	621807	618146	3661
Downloads per day September 2022			122

 

Most to least downloaded scripts in September 2022.

ScriptName	Average Downloads per Month
Active Directory	188
Active Directory Health Check	689
All Scripts Zip File	3
Backup (Export) VMware Virtual Distributed Switches	157
Citrix Cloud/Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service	160
Citrix Default Computer Policy Settings	5
Citrix Default User Policy Settings	22
Citrix Federated Authentication Service	349
Citrix Get Broker Invalid Accounts	15
Citrix Get Offline Scout Data	132
Citrix Get PvD Usage Statistics	51
Citrix Get Static Desktop User	255
Citrix NetScaler MAS	11
Citrix NetScaler New (Nitro API)	21
Citrix NetScaler Old (ns.conf)	8
Citrix Policy Settings	258
Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) New	78
Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) Old	32
Citrix PVS Health Check Script V1	3
Citrix PVS Health Check Script V2	41
Citrix Remove Hosting Connection	2
Citrix StoreFront	14
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops V2	73
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops V3	412
Citrix XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2003	1
Citrix XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008	9
Citrix XenApp 5 Summary Report	1
Citrix XenApp 6	1
Citrix XenApp 6 Summary Report	1
Citrix XenApp 6.5	3
Citrix XenApp 6.5 Summary Report	15
Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.0 through 7.7	168
Citrix XenDesktop 4	13
Citrix XenDesktop 5.x	12
Citrix XenMobile	690
Create an unlinked Group Policy Object from an imported CSV file	9
Create Authoritative Time Server GPO	7
Deploy Printer Drivers	304
Find Duplicate DNS Records	177
Get DNS Info	1993
Get Folder Redirection Errors	9
Get GPO Backup and Reports	2690
Get GPO Processing Time	17
Get Home Folder Errors	256
Get Service Accounts	21
Get Service with Account Name	14
HideDrives ADMX and ADML Files	17
HideDrives.adm	24
Hostinfo.zip	5
Microsoft Configuration Manager 2012 R2	72
Microsoft DHCP	22
Microsoft DNS	24
Nutanix	6
Parallels Remote Application Server V17	115
Parallels Remote Application Server V18.0	45
Parallels Remote Application Server V18.1	387
PDF – 10 Things in Active Directory 2018 Edition Webinar	769
PDF – BriForum 2012 Chicago Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	35
PDF – BriForum 2013 Chicago Presentation (More things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	8
PDF – BriForum 2013 London Presentation (More things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	8
PDF – Building Webster’s Lab V2	29
PDF – CUGC DC 10+ Things in Active Directory	224
PDF – E2E 2012 Hamburg, Germany Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)	27
PDF – E2E 2013 Copenhagen AD Presentation (More things about AD you should know)	192
PDF – Learning the Basics of VMware Horizon 7.12	80
PDF – Norway CUGtech Host 2016 Presentation	7
PDF – Post Citrix Synergy 2012 Presentation for AGSI (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)	141
PDF – Synergy 2012 Barcelona Geek Speak Live Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)	2
PDF – Synergy 2012 San Francisco Geek Speak Live Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)	5
PDF – Synergy 2013 Los Angeles AD Presentation (Be a Hero! More Best Practices for Wildly Successful AD Projects)	1
PDF – Synergy 2016 Las Vegas Presentation (re)Designing Your Active Directory	2
Set DNS Info	12
Set DNS Scavenging Server	4
Set SageSet=1 for Disk Cleanup	2
SMS PASSCODE MFA	1
Update Active Directory DNS Reverse Lookup Zones from Sites and Services Subnets	5
VMware vSphere	11
XenApp Server Health Check	10
XenApp Server Monitor	10
XenGhost.zip	12

Excel file of Scripts Historical Download Counts

Thanks

Webster