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XenApp PowerShell SDK QA
Thank you to all those that attended the Essentials for using Windows PowerShell with XenApp and XenDesktop Tech Talk on August 24th, 2010 - we had a fantastic turnout! For those of you that missed it, both the recording and presentation have been posted. Tech Talk Full Recorded Presentation Tech Talk Presentation Slides This FAQ focuses answering questions on the XenApp Section of the presentation, and has answers ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 9 – Restarting Virtual Desktops
The last task that we'll discuss in this blog series is how to automate the restarting (rebooting) of virtual desktops within XenDesktop. I've provided two different scripts in this article - one for restarting a single virtual desktop, the second for restarting multiple virtual desktops at the same time. As you'll find in the scripts, they look almost identical, making this one of ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 8 – Disconnecting and Stopping Virtual Desktop Sessions
So far in the blog series I've mainly focused on how to automate configurations for XenDesktop desktop groups. For example, how to create new desktop groups, how to add new virtual desktops to a desktop group, and how to update the idle pool settings for a desktop group. But what does the XenDesktop PowerShell SDK let us do with the virtual desktop sessions ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 7 – Adding Active Directory Users and Groups to a Desktop Group
A common configuration change that you might need to make on a XenDesktop farm is to change which users/groups are assigned to which desktop groups. For example, a new employee is hired, they need a virtual desktop, so you need to add their Active Directory account to an existing desktop group. Alternatively, you can add their Active Directory account to an Active Directory ...
Upcoming Tech Talk – Essentials for using Windows PowerShell with XenApp and XenDesktop
Update We have delivered the Tech Talk on Essentials for using Windows PowerShell with XenApp and XenDesktop and both the recording and presentation are now available for viewing. We also have a separate blog for the Q&A from the session. Tech Talk Recording Tech Talk Presentation XenDesktop SDK Q&A Blog Post Session Description Learn how to simplify your XenApp and XenDesktop administration using simple but effective PowerShell scripts. ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 6 – Adding Virtual Desktops to a Desktop Group
As you manage your XenDesktop farm, you may notice that you have spikes in virtual desktop use every so often. In some cases the spikes could exceed the supply and some users could be rejected from receiving a virtual desktop. To deal with the spikes, you want your XenDesktop environment to be elastic - that is, as the threshold of what can be ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 5 – Updating the Idle Pool Settings of a Desktop Group
The idle pool settings of a desktop group define how many virtual desktops should be kept in an idle state at any given time. When a user launches a virtual desktop, they are given one of the idle machines and another machine is started on the backend to attempt to keep the number of idle machines the same. Keeping machines in an idle ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 4 – Enabling and Disabling a Desktop Group
Maintenance is always a big part of every XenDesktop environment. There may be times throughout the course of the year where you need to "take-down" a desktop group in order to prevent users from connecting to certain virtual desktops. You then perform maintenance on the virtual desktops and bring the desktop group back online to allow access again. All of this can ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 3 – Creating a New Desktop Group
When you configure a XenDesktop environment, the primary configuration you are going to make is to create new desktop groups. Desktop Groups define the virtual desktops that you want to make available to users, who can access them, how they are assigned to users, and how many are kept active at any given time. Whenever I'm working within the Delivery Services Console, I ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 2 – Retrieving the XenDesktop Farm Properties
One of the first things that I tried to do when learning the XenDesktop PowerShell SDK was to figure out how to retrieve (and set) the various XenDesktop settings that you find within the Delivery Services Console (DSC). The focus of this blog will be to show how you can retrieve and set the XenDesktop farm properties. The approach that I will outline ...