Carl Webster

A Windows utility I am surprised that a lot of admins don’t know about is Disk Cleanup. Running the Windows app doesn’t provide as many options as running the same program from the command line. I use the command line option when finalizing master images before the provisioning process. You can also run this on manually […]

#Version 2.14 11-Apr-2018 Added the following properties to Application Details Application Type CPU Priority Level Home Zone Name Home Zone Only Ignore User Home Zone Icon from Client Local Launch Disabled Secure Command Line Arguments Enabled Add shortcut to user’s desktop Add shortcut to user’s Start Menu Start Menu Folder Wait for Printer Creation Added […]

I am in the process of creating some XenApp/XenDesktop application scripts the community has asked me to create. One is fairly simple, or so I thought. The request was simple, for each application, list the Delivery Group that provides that application. For each Delivery Group, list each Machine Catalog that provides machines for the Delivery […]

I do a lot of Active Directory (AD) Health Checks for my employer, Choice Solutions. Every time I do an AD Health Check, I find something else I need to add to the various documentation scripts. For this current AD Health Check, I found out the customer was using a very large Security Event Log. Most […]

In more ways than a simple bump from 1.35 to 1.40, this update feels like a new version. In doing Active Directory Health Checks for my employer, Choice Solutions, I “eat my own dog food” and use a lot of my scripts to gather data needed. I have wanted, for a long time, to add […]

On a recent project for my employer, Choice Solutions, I needed to generate a report of all users who had a Home Drive configured on the Profile tab in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). Something most IT Pros do not know is that if anything is configured on the Profile tab in ADUC (Figure […]

It was truly amazing to see all the feedback and discussion after my latest blog post. So first of all, I would like to thank you for that. In case you missed it, you can read all about it here. Actually, the idea of a follow-up story was already born within hours after publication. So, […]

It’s time for another story, but not a technical story this time around. I was actually inspired by recent events at Citrix, and those events being the round of layoffs all over the world. I’m not going to debate that move here, but at least it got me thinking. Thinking about the past, present, and […]

Promises, promises… I like to keep mine, so after Part 1, let’s continue with Part 2. Originally, it wasn’t my plan to have a Part 2 in the first place. When I started writing the script, it was my goal to include all checks into a single script. I rather quickly abandoned that idea because […]

It’s been a while since I posted something. To make it up to you, this is part 1 of a 2-part series on monitoring. Part 2 will be following soon, I promise. More specifically, monitoring XenApp with Powershell. Since many of my customers are still running 6.5 (yeah, I know), I’m focussing on that version […]

This is the 7th major update to Webster’s Lab since I started this website in November 2008. This write-up will attempt to include more detail that you have asked for. I got my start in Information Technology (IT) in September 1977 working as an IBM Mainframe computer operator. I knew no one who had one […]

Let me set a stage for configuration: There are multiple XenDesktop Sites for your environment.  Either Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) or Machine Creation Service (MCS) is being used for image deployment.  Whether your Sites are Active/Active or Active/Passive doesn’t matter.  The only difference between the images will be the Citrix Profile Management (CPM) store that […]

I was working with a customer that was an original Norskale customer.  They were running VUEM 3.1   I started the process of upgrading to Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM).  I upgraded all the components and it seemed to have no issues.  I started trying to connect the clients and weird issues started to appear.  The […]

Every now and then, people ask me about the lab environment.  This article will give you an update on what is in my lab since the December 2016 article. I believe everyone should have a lab even if it consists of free virtualization software running on a laptop with minimal RAM.  Even a simple lab […]