Scripting

User-Self Help Tools for an SBC and VDI Deployment

November 29, 2009

Whenever I implement a Citrix/Terminal Server farm, I always include certain applications and tools that I believe users will get some value from, which may in-turn assist IT Support by lowering the number of helpdesk calls. Who knows??? I have blogged about all these tools before… The unbelievably awesome Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy tools The Repair […]

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Deployment Script for the very cool Convert utility

November 29, 2009

Here is a deployment script for the very cool convert.exe utility from Josh Madison. Enjoy!

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Deployment Script for the Repair Clipboard Chain utility

November 29, 2009

Here is a deployment script for the Citrix Repair Clipboard Chain (RepairCBDChain.exe) utility as per Citrix KB article CTX106226. This utility does not have a nice default icon, so I have used one that looks like this: I have zipped up the actual ico file here: clipboard Enjoy!

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Script to Speedup the Delivery Services Console Launch

November 29, 2009

This script addresses a known issue where Delivery Services Console (DSC) or Access Management Console (AMC) takes longer than expected to launch. Refer to Citrix KB article CTX120115 for further information.

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Script to Fix the Delivery Services Console Shortcut

November 29, 2009

This script will update any shortcuts to the Delievery Services Console (DSC) and Access Management Console (AMC). Launching the DSC or AMC on 64-bit system is a bit of a challenge. The CmiLaunch.exe does not work correctly on a 64-bit system. It does not start and we receive the following three errors in the System […]

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Script to Join a Computer to the Domain

November 28, 2009

This script will join a computer to a domain. You can either specify the parameters as command line arguments, or look them up in an ini file. If an OU is not specified, the value is set to NULL, which means that the computer object will be placed in the OU/Container that is set as […]

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Locking a Virtual Desktop Session

July 20, 2009

How to lock a remote VMware View session? I’ve had mixed results getting a consistent method for locking VDI workstation sessions using VMware View across different client types, so have endeavored to document all possible methods to help come up with a best practice. Updated 4th September 2009: As per Resolved Issues in VMware View […]

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Deployment Script for the Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Tools

May 10, 2009

A good friend of mine, Warren Simondson from Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy, writes some awesome tools. There are a particular set I use for all Terminal/Citrix Server deployments I refer to as “User Self-Help Tools”. The below script is what I use to deploy them. Simply add the tools you wish to deploy to an array. […]

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Using a Group Policy WMI filter to test for a registry value

May 10, 2009

I wanted a clean and simple way to prevent group policies applying during an automated build process. This is because it can potentially cause some of the components of the build process to fail. One of the last tasks to run on all servers built using my unattended build method will stamp the registry with […]

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Automate the population of the user’s MS Office Credentials

May 10, 2009

This script will add the user’s correct Username and UserInitials to the MS Office registry key to prevent the first time prompt when a user runs up a program in the Office suite. It has been specifically designed to populate the values for multiple versions of Office as per the arrVersions array. Please review the […]

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