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With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I frequently recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment. I thought I would show you how I use PowerShell to install and configure my Domain Controller.
With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment frequently. Sometimes I just need a fresh start and I need to demote my domain controller, remove all the Active Directory related Roles and Features and just start over. This article will show how I use PowerShell to accomplish these tasks.
With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment frequently. I thought I would show you how, in just a few seconds, I recreate my entire AD structure.
A feature that has been requested in all the XenApp documentation scripts for a good while is the ability to print a specific section of the report. This feature, a couple of bug fixes and several enhancements to speed up script execution are what make up Version 4.2.
For my Active Directory (AD) documentation script, I needed to enumerate all Trusts for a Domain. I found a script on TechNet but it had issues. I fixed the issues but I cannot post it as a solution on TechNet because my script is longer than 2000 characters.
For my Active Directory documentation script, if the user requests hardware inventory for the domain controllers, the user must run the script with domain administrator credentials. How do you determine if a script is being run with Domain Admin rights?
In a previous article, I changed my lab’s PVS Farm to use SQL database mirroring. Since that has been done it is time to change my XenDesktop 7.1 Site to also use SQL database mirroring. I will document the process I found that worked. It is not all like what is described in CTX127538 How to Reconfigure a XenDesktop Site to Use a Mirrored Database but that article does have some valid information in it. I will also use information gleaned from two Citrix blogs: XD Tipster – SQL Mirroring: Just the Skinny Please… and XenDesktop 7.x Database Migration. They are helpful but they don’t have 75 screen shots!
I received an email from a reader asking me if I had ever changed a production Provisioning Services (PVS) database from a single database to use mirroring. I had not, so I thought this was a good time to try it out and document the process.
Yeah, I know. I just updated the script a couple of days ago and here is another update. Well, I just couldn’t stand it that the script couldn’t support sending email over anything but the default SMTP port 25. I just had to fix that but doing so required basing the script on PowerShell version 3. The script now requires at least PowerShell version 3 and there are a couple of more parameters.
At a recent XenDesktop and PVS project we ran into an issue where even though DHCP Options 66 and 67 were configured, we could not get rid of the PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout error. This short article describes the resolution.