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  • Citrix Cloud (DaaS) Documentation Script V1.26 (FINAL update by Webster)

    June 23, 2023

    Citrix Cloud

    Version 1.26 23-Jun-2023

    Updated 30-Jun-2023 with information from Citrix that they gave me permission to include.

    It has been an honor and a privilege to provide this script to you since 21-Sep-2020.  Shane O’Neill, this script is now all yours.

    • In version 1.26, I am commenting out the catalog and machine VDA Upgrade  Service sections because the Get-VusCatalogInfo and Get-VusMachineInfo  cmdlets were not supposed to be made public. I added them to this script 11  months ago and now Citrix removed the cmdlets.
    • Added Computer policy
      • Profile Management\Advanced settings\Disable defragmentation for VHD  disk compaction
      • Profile Management\Advanced settings\Enable user-level policy settings
      • Profile Management\Advanced settings\Set priority order for user groups
      • VDA Data Collection\Security\Clipboard place metadata collection for  Security monitoring
      • Added to Function OutputZoneSiteView:
        • Valid Edge Servers?
        • Healthy? (Is the Zone healthy?)
        • Primary? (Is the Zone the Primary Zone? There can (should) only be one  Primary Zone.)
        • Information from Citrix.
        • 1. What is a valid edge server?
        • “HasValidEdgeServers” is a property of Zone objects. A Zone has valid  EdgeServers if there are any EdgeServers in that Zone. NOTE: The presence of the edge server record is dependent on the edge server data being returned from Citrix Cloud with sufficient/correct data such as the presence of a SID value for the edge server.
        • Edge servers that do not have known SID values or cannot determine the  AD domains could be possibly seen as ‘invalid’.
        • 2. How do I fix an invalid edge server?
        • See response to #1.
        • 3. What makes a zone healthy?
        • A Zone is considered healthy if any of the EdgeServers in that Zone are healthy (i.e., not in LHC outage mode).
        • 4. What is an unhealthy Zone?
        • A Zone is considered unhealthy if all of the EdgeServers in that Zone are unhealthy (i.e., in LHC outage mode).
        • 5. How do I fix an unhealthy Zone?
        • Once an EdgeServer comes out of LHC outage mode, the Zone’s  “IsHealthy” property should change to “true”.
        • LHC is designed to operate automatically, without the need for admin intervention. If a Zone’s “IsHealthy” property is “false” for an extended period of time, you can check whether there are any ongoing networking issues and/or reach out to Citrix customer support.
        • End of Information from Citrix.
      • Added two more settings configurable by Set-BrokerServiceConfigurationData
        • Core.AssignmentPolicyMaxDesktops
          • Type: int
          • Default: 5
          • Info: Minimum=1, Maximum=100
          • Summary: The maximum value accepted for the MaxDesktops parameter of the New/Set-BrokerAssignmentPolicyRule cmdlets. This is limited here because enumeration creates MaxDesktops AOFU resources – which if inadvertently set to a very large value impacts enumeration performance and also consumes large amounts of memory.
      • Core.SetSiteDataPeriodSecs
        • Type: int
        • Default: 600
        • Info: Seconds, Minimum=30
        • Summary: The period in seconds for polling for updates to the site data.
      • Lhc.OutageSummaryEventIntervalSecs
        • Type: int
        • Default: 120
        • Info: Seconds Minimum=60
        • Summary: The interval at which LHC would refresh the outage summary event.
      • LhcState.PeerStatus
        • Type: string
        • Default:
        • Info:
        • Summary: The status information of peers participating in election process.
    • In Function OutputMachines, for ProvisioningType -eq “MCS” added:
      • Device Management Type – This can be Intune, IntuneWithCitrixTags, or None
      • Identity Type – This can be ActiveDirectory, AzureAD, HybridAzureAD, or  Workgroup
      • Master Image VM Date – The date and time when the VM snapshot copy used  by the provisioning scheme was made
      • MDM Enrollment – This can be Intune, IntuneWithCitrixTags, or None
      • Prepared Image Definition Name – The name for the image definition used for  the provisioning scheme
      • Prepared Image Version Number – The version number for the image version  used for the provisioning scheme
      • Windows Activation Type – Windows Activation Type set on the Master Image  which has a mapping with the Provisioning Scheme
    • In Function OutputMachines:
      • Made the code consistent between the Daas and CVAD scripts
      • Added missing fields that were in one script but not the other
      • Added the Machine data metadatamap keys output that was in the Word  output but not in the Text and HTML output
      • Added Custom Properties For VMware
        • FolderId
      • Renamed “Master VM” to “Master Image VM”
    • Removed the IncludeVMImageHistory parameter as it wasn’t used
    • Renamed Computer policy
      • VDA Data Collection\VDA data collection for Performance Analytics to VDA  Data Collection\VDA data collection for Analytics
    • Tested with Group Policy Module 2305 dated May 31, 2023
    • Tested with PoSH SDK dated May 18, 2023
    • Updated for 7.38

    You can always find the most current script by going to https://www.carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation-scripts/

    Thanks

    Webster







    About Carl Webster

    Carl Webster is an independent consultant specializing in Citrix, Active Directory, and technical documentation. Carl (aka “Webster”) serves the broader Citrix community by writing articles (see CarlWebster.com) and by being the most active person in the Citrix Zone on Experts Exchange. Webster has a long history in the IT industry beginning with mainframes in 1977, PCs and application development in 1986, and network engineering in 2001. He has worked with Citrix products since 1990 with the premiere of their first product – the MULTIUSER OS/2.

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