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Citrix XenDesktop Cookbook-Third Edition

You're reading from   Citrix XenDesktop Cookbook-Third Edition Over 40 engaging recipes that will help you implement a full-featured XenDesktop 7.6 architecture and its main satellite components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782175179
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaspare Silvestri Gaspare Silvestri
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Preface 1. XenDesktop® 7.6 – Upgrading, Installation, and Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring and Deploying Virtual Machines for XenDesktop® 7.6 3. Master Image Configuration and Tuning 4. User Experience – Planning and Configuring 5. Creating and Configuring a Desktop Environment 6. Deploying Applications 7. XenDesktop® Infrastructure Tuning 8. XenDesktop® Component Integration 9. Working with PowerShell 10. Configuring the XenDesktop® Advanced Logon Index

Managing Active Directory accounts – ADIdentity cmdlets


In this recipe, we will discuss the utilization of the Active Directory Identity cmdlets. This is a capability that permits retrieving and configuring the Active Directory objects used by XenDesktop, such as machine accounts assigned to existing desktop catalogs.

Getting ready

No preliminary tasks are required. You have already installed the PowerShell SDK during the installation of the Desktop Controller role machine(s).

To be able to run a PowerShell script (.ps1 format), you have to enable the script execution from the PowerShell prompt in the following way:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force

How to do it…

The following are the steps required to manage the XenDesktop machine identity using PowerShell:

  1. Connect to one of the Desktop Broker servers, by using a Remote Desktop connection, for instance.

  2. Click on the PowerShell icon installed on the Windows taskbar.

  3. Load the PowerShell modules by typing the following command...

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