Intro

Happy 2018!!! In my current position I’m getting to do a lot of PowerShell scripting. Typically these are quick scripts for maintenance or finding information about our Citrix environment. I’m posting several here to share.

NOTE: These scripts were written against a XenApp 7.9/PVS 7.15 environment

get-pvsPersonalityStrings.ps1

If you have to maintain unique personality strings on your provisioned devices, then this script will help. It spits out all the strings in a PVS farm. I wrote this script due to a requirement with Symantec AV that expects to see a unique hardware ID for servers connecting to it. One way to do this in provisioned environments is with a startup script. See (For Xendesktop PVS) Configure the vDisk Target Device Personality Data for more info.

set-pvsPersonalityString.ps1

The companion script for above. This script will set the Personality String for a PVS Device. It can take an input or generate one automatically. It assumes a 32 character hexadecimal string.

Both scripts are available on GitHub

Thanks for reading, Alain