Summit 605DConfigure, manage and monitor your desktop virtualization environment using PowerShell

Jon Schaubhut, Pascal Bijnaar, Pedro TramontTest Engineers

Rafael GomezCitrix Consultant

May, 2012

• History of Citrix SDKs

• XenApp PowerShell SDK Principles

• XenDesktop PowerShell SDK Principles

• XenApp and XenDesktop PowerShell SDK Labs

Agenda

History

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• MFCOM introduced in Metaframe XP 1.0 and deprecated in XenApp 6.0

• Citrix PowerShell SDK was introduced in XenApp 6.0 and XenDesktop 4.0○ Scripting techniques were simplified in PowerShell

From MetaFrameCOM (MFCOM) to PowerShell

Citrix XenApp PowerShell Principles

Scripting and execution environments

Windows PowerShell ISE

Windows PowerShell CmdLine

Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK

Set-Execution Policy PowerShell Scripts

• AllSigned

• RemoteSigned

• Unrestricted

• Bypass

• Restricted (default)

Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK Documentation

Citrix XenApp 6.5 Command Reference

XenApp 6.5 PowerShell SDK

PowerShell Get-help Get-help <cmdlet > -detailed, -Examples, -FullGet-Help About_

PowerShell Tab Completion PowerShell’s version of IntelliSense

• Verb = The action performed

• Nouns = Acted on

• Examples:

• Get-Help

• Get-Item

• Get-XAFarm

Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK

PowerShell Verb-Noun

• Short name for a cmdlet

• Easier to remember

• Examples: Get-Help /Help, Get-ItemProperty/GP, Get-ChildItem/Dir

Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK

Aliases

Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK

Citrix Community Citrix Developer Network

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Citrix XenApp and Group Policy PowerShell PSSnapins

Add-PSSnapin Citrix*

Group Policy(Provider)

Citrix.Common.GroupPolicy

Provides access to Citrix Group policy settings

XenApp Commands(cmdlet)

Citrix.XenApp.Commands

XenApp cmdlets for managing XenApp farms

Add-PSSnapin Citrix.XenApp.Commands

Add-PSSnapin Citrix.Common.GroupPolicy

Add all Citrix PowerShell Snapins

Citrix XenApp Group Policy

AD Farm GPO Local GPO

PowerShell Drives

AD

New-psdrive -Name SFO -PSProvider CitrixGroupPolicy -Root \ -domainGPO SFO

XA Farm

LocalFarmGPO

New-psdrive -Name SFO -PSProvider CitrixGroupPolicy -Root \ -FarmGPO <FarmServer>

XA Server

New-psdrive -Name SFO -PSProvider CitrixGroupPolicy -Root \ -LocalGPO

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Citrix Group Policy

• Save only once

• Turn Delayed-write on• (Get-PSDrive LocalFarmGpo).AutoWriteBack =

$false

• Save the delayed-write changes to Provider.• (Get-PSDrive LocalFarmGpo).Save()

• Turn off Delayed-Write mode (Default)• (Get-PSDrive LocalFarmGpo).AutoWriteBack = $true

Citrix Group Policy

Delayed-Write Mode

Citrix XenApp Commands

(cmdlets)

Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK

• XenApp Commands • Get-XAApplication [[-BrowserName] <String[]>] [-LocalhostOnly] [-ComputerName <String>]

[<CommonParameters>]Set-XADefaultComputerName

• Citrix Group Policy• -DomainGPO

• -FarmGPO

Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK

Remote Connectivity

Demo

•Live Demo: Copy a Citrix Policy

•Why• Backup

• Migration

• Farm

• Active Directory GPO

• Local GPO

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XenDesktop PowerShell SDK principles

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• Commands exposed in

Desktop Studio

• XenDesktop cmdlets

• XenDesktop Group Policy

Provider

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Why use the XenDesktop PowerShell SDK?

• Some functions not exposed in

Desktop Studio

• Powerful session monitoring and

management

• Higher level of customization

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Machine Creation Services

Desktop BrokerCitrix.Broker.Admin

Hypervisors

Citrix.Host.Admin

Citrix.MachineIdentity.AdminCitrix.MachineCreation.Admin

Citrix.ADIdentity.Admin

Used to manage the Citrix Broker.

Catalogs, desktop groups, administrators

Manages Active Directory Computer

Accounts, creates new VMs, manages VM

storage

Manages Hosts, and Hypervisor

Connections

Main XD PowerShell SDK Snap-ins

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Get-Help about_Broker_Machines

Verb-Noun Review

Example: get-help *brokerCatalog

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Creating catalogs and assignments

• BrokerHypervisorConnection (Optional)

• BrokerCatalog

• BrokerDesktopGroup

• BrokerMachine

• BrokerUser

SDK objects used to provide desktops to users

Get-Help about_Broker_Machines

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Monitoring and administration

• BrokerDesktop

• BrokerDesktopUsage

• BrokerSession

• All monitoring and administration objects

SDK objects used to monitor and administer in-use operations

Get-Help about_Broker_Desktops

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Configuring policies

• There are two types of policies that can be changed

SDK objects used to manipulate policies

Broker Policies(cmdlets)

Citrix GroupPolicies

(provider)

Audio, printing, USB…

Fine-grained access control

Labs

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