Articles & Tutorials

A section describing various custom scripts which Windows Terminal Services and Citirx administrators can use to monitor their servers.

Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 6): Date - Apr 02, 2008; Author - Brien M. Posey; This article continues with the series on creating terminal service based scripts by beginning to take a look at using a script to create a report.
Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 5): Date - Mar 05, 2008; Author - Brien M. Posey; This article continues the series on terminal service based scripts by introducing a couple more commands that you can use in your scripts.
Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 4): Date - Feb 06, 2008; Author - Brien M. Posey; This article continues the discussion of terminal service related commands by talking about a command that you can use to send messages to terminal service users.
Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 3): Date - Jan 16, 2008; Author - Brien M. Posey; This article continues the series on writing terminal service based scripts by discussing more of the commands that are available to you.
Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 2): Date - Dec 19, 2007; Author - Brien M. Posey; How you can use a command line environment to create various scripts that assist with tasks encountered during day to day terminal server operations.
Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 1): Date - Nov 14, 2007; Author - Brien M. Posey; How you can use a command line environment to create various scripts that assist with tasks encountered during day to day terminal server operations.
How To: Unattended Installation of the Citrix Web Interface: Date - Sep 20, 2006; Author - Wilco van Bragt; This article demonstrates how to perform an unattended installation of the Citrix Web Interface.
How to deploy applications to your Terminal Server: Date - Mar 30, 2006; Author - Wilco van Bragt; In the article Terminal Server Environment Basic Concepts I already described the basic concepts/rules necessary to have a stable and controllable Terminal Server Infrastructure. Two of the described concepts in that article are chronology of the installation order and the 100% “equality” of all the servers in the Farm. To accomplish this you should use silent setups and a deploy mechanism to install applications on your servers. In this article we are going to detail how to install and deploy those applications with the above mentioned concepts in mind.
Scripting for Server Based Computing: Part 3 – Citrix Presentation Server Scripting: Date - Jan 31, 2006; Author - Andy Jones; VBScript and WMI are very powerful toolsets that allow server based computing administrators to perform some very complex, and sometimes mundane, tasks with consistency and speed. This article series serves as a look into leveraging this toolset to simplify the configuration of server and user settings. Part three of this article series will look at Citrix Presentation Server’s MFCOM Object. We will explore the settings and properties that may be managed via VBScript and WMI.
Scripting for Server Based Computing: Part 2 – Terminal Services Server and Connection Settings: Date - Nov 09, 2005; Author - Andy Jones; VBScript and WMI are very powerful toolsets that allow server based computing administrators to perform some very complex, and sometimes mundane, tasks with consistency and speed. This article series serves as a look into leveraging this toolset to simplify the configuration of server and user settings. Part 2 of this article series will look at terminal services server and connection settings (Winstation settings for the really old school crowd). We will explore the settings and properties that may be managed via VBScript and WMI.
Scripting for Server Based Computing: Part 1 – Terminal Services Attributes for Active Directory User Objects: Date - Oct 17, 2005; Author - Andy Jones; VBScript and WMI are very powerful toolsets that allow server based computing administrators to perform some very complex, and sometimes mundane, tasks with consistency and speed. This article series serves as a look into leveraging this toolset to simplify the configuration of server and user settings. Part 1 will look at terminal services specific settings for Active Directory User Objects.