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Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity. Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command line tools, and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell allows IT professionals to control system administration and accelerate automation more easily
With PowerShell, Citrix Administrators can script MFCom Objects to manage and administer the XenApp Farm. The secret of using COM objects starts with the command: New-Object -COM.
The following PowerShell example creates a new MetaFrame object (do not get confused with the COM Object naming), initializes the Farm and prints out the farmname:
$farm = new-Object -com "MetaframeCOM.MetaframeFarm"
$farm.Initialize(1)
$farm.FarmName
It's not going to be a spectacular script. But look at the following little code enhancement:
$farm = new-Object -com "MetaframeCOM.MetaframeFarm"
$farm.Initialize(1)
$farm.FarmName
$farm.sessions | Format-Table UserName,ClientAddress
Just adding one more lines of code and you will get all sessions within the farm displaying the Username and IP Address.
Setting up your PowerShell / MFCom environment
Beginning with PowerShell / MFCom Scripting you should install Microsoft Powershell on a Citrix Presentation / XenApp Server in your lab. I recommend downloading the PowerShell Graphical Helpfile which also provides great information's about VBScript to PowerShell conversion.
For creating and editing your PowerShell scripts I suggest downloading the free PowerGui graphical user interface and script editor. Its easy to use and works well with COM Objects.
PowerShell
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx
PowerShell Graphical Help File
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3B3F7CE4-43EA-4A21-90CC-966A7FC6C6E8&displaylang=en
PowerGui - Graphical user interface and script editor
http://www.powergui.org
Displaying apps in your farm
To give you some basic ideas where PowerShell leverages your daily administrative tasks, I've created the following script:
$farm = new-Object -com "MetaframeCOM.MetaframeFarm"
$farm.Initialize(1)
$farm.FarmName
$farm.applications| where {$_.BrowserName -like "Winword*" {color:black}} | select DistinguishedName
The script above enumerates each application published in the farm and selects all applications where Winword* is contained in the BrowserName.
PowerShell Examples provided by CDN
PowerShell and other scripting examples can be found on the Citrix Developer Network:
Comments (2)
Aug 12, 2008
Anonymous says:
PowerGUI admin console now has a PowerPack based on MFCOM - with all the scr...PowerGUI admin console now has a PowerPack based on MFCOM - with all the scripts in there available with their source code.
Aug 12, 2008
Vishal Ganeriwala says:
PowerPack is cool. Thanks for putting this together. VishalgPowerPack is cool. Thanks for putting this together.
Vishalg
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