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  • Using My Citrix PVS PowerShell Documentation Script with Remoting

    March 15, 2013

    Blog, PowerShell, PVS

    I needed to figure out how to run my latest PVS documentation script without having Microsoft Word installed on the PVS server.  This turned out to be much simpler than I thought it would be.  There are only four steps involved.

    1. From the computer to run the script, start a PowerShell session as Administrator
    2. Add-PSSnapin McliPSSnapin
    3. Mcli-Run SetupConnection -p Server=PVSServerName
    4. .\PVS_Inventory_V2.ps1 -verbose

    The results of my session on my Windows 7 VM against my Windows Server 2008 R2 PVS 6.1 server VM:

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    PS C:\webster> $env:computername
    WIN7
    PS C:\webster> Add-PSSnapin McliPSSnapin
    PS C:\webster> Mcli-Run SetupConnection -p Server=PVS61
    Run succeeded.
    PS C:\webster> .\PVS_Inventory_V2.ps1 -verbose
    VERBOSE: checking for McliPSSnapin
    VERBOSE: Getting PVS version info
    VERBOSE: Build PVS farm values
    VERBOSE: Setting up Word
    VERBOSE: Create Word comObject. If you are not running Word 2007, ignore the next message.
    VERBOSE: The object written to the pipeline is an instance of the type "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass"
    from the component's primary interop assembly. If this type exposes different members than the IDispatch members,
    scripts written to work with this object might not work if the primary interop assembly is not installed.
    VERBOSE: Running Microsoft Word 2010
    VERBOSE: Validate company name
    VERBOSE: Validate cover page
    VERBOSE: Company Name: Webster's Lab
    VERBOSE: Cover Page : Motion
    VERBOSE: User Name : administrator
    VERBOSE: Farm Name : PVS61Farm
    VERBOSE: Title : Inventory Report for the PVS61Farm Farm
    VERBOSE: Filename : C:\webster\PVS61Farm.docx
    VERBOSE: Load Word Templates
    VERBOSE: Create empty word doc
    VERBOSE: disable spell checking
    VERBOSE: insert new page, getting ready for table of contents
    VERBOSE: table of contents
    VERBOSE: set the footer
    VERBOSE: get the footer and format font
    VERBOSE: Footer text
    VERBOSE: add page numbering
    VERBOSE: return focus to main document
    VERBOSE: move to the end of the current document
    VERBOSE: Processing PVS Farm Information
    VERBOSE: Processing Security Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Groups Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Licensing Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Options Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing vDisk Version Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Status Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Sites
    VERBOSE: Processing Site PVS61Site
    VERBOSE: Processing Security Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Options Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing vDisk Update Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Servers in Site PVS61Site
    VERBOSE: Processing Server PVS61
    VERBOSE: Processing General Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Network Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Stores Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Stores for server
    VERBOSE: Processing Store Store
    VERBOSE: Processing Options Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Logging Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Server Tab on Advanced button
    VERBOSE: Processing Network Tab on Advanced button
    VERBOSE: Processing Pacing Tab on Advanced button
    VERBOSE: Processing Device Tab on Advanced button
    VERBOSE: Processing Bootstrap files
    VERBOSE: Processing Bootstrap files for Server PVS61
    VERBOSE: Processing General Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Options Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing all vDisks in site
    VERBOSE: Processing vDisk Update Management
    VERBOSE: Processing all device collections in site
    VERBOSE: Processing Collection PVS61Collection
    VERBOSE: Processing General Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Security Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Auto-Add Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing each collection process for each device
    VERBOSE: Processing all site views in site
    VERBOSE: Processing all PVS Farm Views
    VERBOSE: Processing Stores
    VERBOSE: Processing Store Store
    VERBOSE: Processing General Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Servers Tab
    VERBOSE: Processing Server PVS61
    VERBOSE: Processing Paths Tab
    VERBOSE: Finishing up Word document
    VERBOSE: Set Cover Page Properties
    VERBOSE: Update the Table of Contents
    VERBOSE: Save and Close document and Shutdown Word
    PS C:\webster>

    That is it, that is all there is to it.

    Hope this help.

    Webster

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    About Carl Webster

    Webster is a Sr. Solutions Architect for Choice Solutions, LLC and specializes in Citrix, Active Directory and Technical Documentation. Webster has been working with Citrix products for many years starting with Multi-User OS/2 in 1990.

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    8 Responses to “Using My Citrix PVS PowerShell Documentation Script with Remoting”

    1. Chris Says:
      December 17, 2015 at 10:11 am

      Hi Carl,

      trying to run this script, but I’m getting this error. Any ideas?

      Mcli-Run : Could not load file or assembly ‘CDFNet, Version=7.1.0.4022, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one
      of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

      Chris

      PS. uber noob to PS…

      • Carl Webster Says:
        December 17, 2015 at 10:13 am

        Did you read the ReadMe that came with the script? If not, it has the prereqs for running the script in it.

        Webster

        • Chris Says:
          December 17, 2015 at 10:47 am

          Carl,
          I’m missing something. I registered the McliPSSnapin on my PC that I am trying to run the script from, no error there, but I’m still getting the same error

    2. Remko Weijnen Says:
      August 3, 2013 at 6:04 am

      Carl/Fred: why not simply check if the wfica32.exe process is running (remotely)?

    3. Fred Jumayao Says:
      June 20, 2013 at 12:43 pm

      Newbie PS user here, is there any way that I can sweep with powershell script a set of PCs and check if they have an active citrix ica connection/session (12.x). I don’t have access to the back-end, but would help me check on sessions that need to always be on certain PCs.

      Thanks for any feedback or tips.
      Fred

      • Carl Webster Says:
        August 2, 2013 at 10:47 am

        I personally do not know how to do that. Maybe someone reading this can help you.

        Webster

      • Carl Webster Says:
        August 2, 2013 at 11:11 am

        John Carthy on Twitter responded:

        “im no PoSH expert but if he can use PSremoting to run netstat -an | findstr :1494, then that would likely be an ica connection”