2015 - Pablo Legorreta

Certificate Thumbprints via PowerShell

By Pablo Legorreta PowerShell, Scripting

While troubleshooting authentication and identity federation for things such as ADFS and similar technologies, it is often necessary to see the thumbprints of the certificates that are installed on a Server or client machine.

O365 Recursive Folder and Sub Folder Permissions

By Pablo Legorreta Exchange, Office 365, PowerShell, Scripting

If you have a public folder that you want to apply permissions in Office 365, you might have noticed that the web console can be slow if you have a long list of folders and sometimes the web console will time out and result in inconsistent permissions applied to sub folders. A much better method is to apply permissions to it using the Exchange Management Shell, its pretty easy and works with 365 and hosted Exchange.

XenApp 7.6 Slow Login & Black Screen

By Pablo Legorreta Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD)

On Server 2012 R2 with XenApp 7.6 I noticed a strange phenomenon, when logging in, after the processing of my Group Policies my XenApp session would hang at a black screen for about 10 seconds

Moving Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop Policies Quickly

By Pablo Legorreta PowerShell, Scripting, Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD)1 Comment

In large environments, oftentimes there can be lots of Citrix Policies involved. The XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 7.x Studio and AppCenter consoles currently do not have an easy mechanism to move policies around quickly. This, however, can be easily accomplished by the use of PowerShell.

XenDesktop Changes made outside of console

By Pablo Legorreta Citrix, Scripting, Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD)1 Comment

Issue with CVAD 7.x where using Studio and PowerShell interchangeably can result in the error message "Changes made outside of this console, such as in PowerShell or management tools from previous versions, resulted in a discrepancy between policies. The assigned objects for policy "PolicyName" must match..."

Determine CVAD Device OS

By Pablo Legorreta Citrix, Scripting, Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD)

For certain things like pushing policies to certain types of devices or applying monitoring policies, or even troubleshooting, it can be useful to know the end-point Operating System that a user is on from CVAD.

NetScaler Gateway SmartAccess PoSh

By Pablo Legorreta Citrix, NetScaler (ADC), Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD)2 Comments

NetScaler Gateway SmartAccess depends on XML requests which need to be enabled. In the past, there was a policy to Trust Requests Sent to the XML Service Port, however, this policy has been removed from the Studio Policies

Windows 8, 8.1, Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2 Optimization Guide

By Pablo Legorreta Citrix, Optimizations, Scripting, Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD)4 Comments

commonly applied optimizations for Citrix environments and provide assistance with their implementation through a script

Citrix on OSX 10.10 Yosemite

By Pablo Legorreta Citrix, Mac, Scripting1 Comment

A feature introduced in Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) which remains in OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) performs validation of ARP requests, which results in unicast ARP requests. These requests will time-out if the gateway on the host does not receive a timely response

VBScripts and UAC

By Pablo Legorreta Scripting

User Account Control (UAC) can sometimes be a pain in the neck which is why I have looked for ways around scripting in customer environments that have UAC enabled. This article contains solutions for this issue.