Hidden PowerShell Cmdlets come with Citrix Workflow Studio

halr9000 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:58:48 +0000

This was something implied by Peter Schulz (but not admitted—oh no, he’s in Marketing!) when Jonathan and I interviewed him on the podcast, and I’ve verified it this morning. (See the podcast show notes for links to download WFS.) Have a look-see:

45# Get-PSSnapin -Registered | ? { $_.Vendor -match 'Citrix' }

Name        : ArdencePSSnapIn
PSVersion   : 2.0
Description : This is a PSSnapin for Citrix's Provisioning Server commands.

Name        : NetScalerPSSnapIn
PSVersion   : 2.0
Description : This is a PSSnapin for Citrix's NetScaler commands.

Name        : XenAppPSSnapIn
PSVersion   : 2.0
Description : This is a PSSnapin for Citrix's XenApp commands.

It’s as easy as cake to add these to your session and start messing around. I’ll leave that to someone like Brandon Shell who actually has some of these products laying around.

52# Get-Command -PSSnapin Ard*,NetSc*,Xen* | group pssnapin

Count Name                      Group
----- ----                      -----
   26 XenAppPSSnapIn            {Add-Application, Add-Server, Connect-Farm, Disable-Appli...
   34 ArdencePSSnapIn           {Add-Ardence.Client, Add-Ardence.Server, Add-Ardence.vDis...
   49 NetScalerPSSnapIn         {Add-NetScaler.HTTPService, Add-NetScaler.IP, Add-NetScal...

53# Get-Command -PSSnapin Ard*,NetSc*,Xen* | group verb

Count Name                      Group
----- ----                      -----
   10 Add                       {Add-Application, Add-Ardence.Client, Add-Ardence.Server,...
    2 Bind                      {Bind-NetScaler.LBMonitorToService, Bind-NetScaler.LBVSer...
    1 Boot                      {Boot-Ardence.Client}
    4 Check                     {Check-Ardence.ClientExists, Check-Ardence.ServerExists, ...
    3 Clear                     {Clear-NetScaler.LBMonitorScript, Clear-NetScaler.LBMonit...
    1 Close                     {Close-NetScaler.Connection}
    1 Connect                   {Connect-Farm}
    8 Disable                   {Disable-Application, Disable-NetScaler.IP, Disable-NetSc...
    1 Disconnect                {Disconnect-Session}
    8 Enable                    {Enable-Application, Enable-NetScaler.IP, Enable-NetScale...
   30 Get                       {Get-Application, Get-Ardence.Client, Get-Ardence.ClientC...
    1 Initialize                {Initialize-NetScaler.Connection}
    1 Logoff                    {Logoff-Session}
    1 Map                       {Map-Ardence.vDisk}
    3 Modify                    {Modify-ApplicationGroup, Modify-ApplicationUser, Modify-...
    1 New                       {New-Ardence.vDisk}
    1 Publish                   {Publish-Application}
    1 Reboot                    {Reboot-Ardence.Client}
   10 Remove                    {Remove-Application, Remove-Ardence.Client, Remove-Ardenc...
    2 Restart                   {Restart-Ardence.ServerService, Restart-NetScaler.NS}
    1 Save                      {Save-NetScaler.Config}
    1 Send                      {Send-Ardence.ClientMessage}
   10 Set                       {Set-ApplicationAccount, Set-Ardence.Client, Set-Ardence....
    1 Shutdown                  {Shutdown-Ardence.Client}
    1 Start                     {Start-Ardence.ServerService}
    1 Stop                      {Stop-Ardence.ServerService}
    2 Unbind                    {Unbind-NetScaler.LBMonitorFromService, Unbind-NetScaler....
    1 Unlock                    {Unlock-Ardence.vDisk}
    1 Unmap                     {Unmap-Ardence.vDisk}

Looks pretty tasty!

New PowerShell Toy – Citrix Workflow Studio

halr9000 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:30:58 +0000

Click on the pic for more details including download link (My Citrix registration required). I havenâ€™t touched it yet so donâ€™t have much to share. All I do know is that this is a product recently acquired by Citrix from another company. Beyond the re-branding, I donâ€™t know what theyâ€™ve changed. (Link from the excellent Virtualization.info blog.)

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Hidden PowerShell Cmdlets come with Citrix Workflow Studio

New PowerShell Toy – Citrix Workflow Studio