There are a variety of devices that have a multitude of ways to backup their configuration, although often you find yourself needing to purchase additional tools from a vendor to do so, or be forever stuck with copying that pesky switch, router, proxy or other configuration to some TFTP server […]
We use XenDesktop 7 and Atlantis ILIO Diskless for our VDI environment. ILIO functions as a storage device. The ILIO VM should occasionally be rebooted per the documentation, or the datastore can fill over time. The script below is what we use to reboot our VMs daily, and the ILIO […]
Update 5/16/2017: Thanks to tabularasa for some improvements to this, fixing some missing slashes among other things! In years past, logon scripts were the bane of many logon experiences due to their synchronous nature. Beginning with Windows 7, logon scripts can be processed asynchronously. We glossed over this fact: “Nice […]
Add-PSSnapin Citrix* $reg=get-brokerdesktop -MaxRecordCount 9999 -RegistrationState Registered -DesktopGroupName VDIWIN7 -adminaddress citrixdc.contoso.local $results=@(); $reg | %{ $comp=$_.hostedmachinename; $cache=dir “\$compD$.vdiskcache” -force; $results+=”$comp;$($($cache.length)/1GB)”} $path0=”D:WriteCachelatest.txt” $path1=”D:WriteCachewc_$(get-date -format `”yyyy-MM-dd_hh-mm_ss`”).txt” $results | out-file $path0 $results | out-file $path1 Using this script you can go to Excel, Data, Import from Text, select Latest.txt, pivot table. Then all you […]
The plan was simple: Create a script to remotely rename several hundred machines to match the new organizational naming standard. This would require pulling from several asset and employee databases as well as querying AD for user properties. “Powershell should be great!” The data pulls work fantastic, however, the rename […]
I’ve been trying to get into the habit of using Powershell remoting when it is convenient and the I’ve got an active window or ISE. I was testing a script which stores a password as a secure string, which of course is per-user. I was surprised to learn that when […]
Recently we were able to approve Windows Management Framework for distribution using WSUS. If you haven’t heard, the WMF is a package of tools that enables administrators to do some great things. Included in the Windows Management framework is Powershell 2.0, BITS 4.0, and WinRM 2.0. The downloads come as […]