The IT Melting Pot!

Good work Carl and the rest of you guys! Will try it out ASAP! 🙂

The original article on Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6.5 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell was released on October 7, 2011.  The original script has been downloaded over 15,000 times. I decided it was time to update the script to have the output match what was shown in AppCenter.   With a lot of help (and patience) from Exchange MVP and PowerShell guru Michael B. Smith, I updated the original script from over 1800 lines to over 2900 lines of PowerShell to thoroughly document a XenApp 6.5 farm.  This article will focus on the changes to the script.

I would like to thank the following people for helping to test the script.

• @BYODre
• Andrew Morgan
• Bart Jacobs
• Brian Hecker
• Derick
• Jarian Gibson
• J. L. Straat
• Jennifer Auiler
• Kees Baggerman
• Knut Gunnar Neggen
• Magnus Hjorleifsson
• Mark Fermin
• Thomas Poppelgaard
• And 25 others

Before we get started, I want you to know that I am NOT a programmer. I am NOT a software developer and I am NOT a real PowerShell coder. I am simply a hack who brute forces his way through all this PowerShell stuff until I either figure it out myself or have to use a lifeline. i.e. Michael B. Smith, Jeff Wouter or worse, I have to read a book!

The prerequisites to follow along with this article are:

• A server, physical or virtual, running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with or without SP1
• Citrix XenApp 6.5 installed with or without HRP01

Note: A few testers reported that neither this script nor AppCenter displayed the hotfixes installed on the data collectors. Citrix has a public hotfix that should resolve that specific issue. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132713

The nice thing about XenApp 6.5 compared to both XenApp 5 and XenApp 6 is that all the basic Citrix PowerShell stuff is installed when you install XenApp 6.5.  But we still need the XenApp 6.5 PowerShell..

Continue reading here! 

//Richard