Month: May 2012

Default OU for your SCVMM 2012 Guest OS Profile

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In System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, you have the option to modify your Guest OS settings when deploying a new virtual machine. The settings you can modify are things like the product key, local administrator password, etc.

One other thing you can define, is that fact that the new virtual machine has to be joined to the domain. Very useful. But what if you also want to define the default Organizational Unit this machine has to be put in? Well, that can also be done using the Guest OS Profile.

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ICA connections using Powershell – Part 3

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In part 1 of this series, I talked about the basics. Part 2 was about the overall session appearance. This part will be about using the events which are available in the ICO SDK. The ICO SDK has a lot of events we can use, but we will be talking about a few so that you get a basic idea on how to use them.

Available Events

First of all, let’s start with the code we use to view all events in the ICAClientClass. We already had the following code:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\ICA Client\WfIcaLib.dll")
$ICA = New-Object WFICALib.ICAClientClass
$ICA.Address = "XASRV001"
$ICA.Username = "TestUser01"
$ICA.SetProp("Password","MyUsersPassword")
$ICA.Domain = "LAB"
$ICA.Application = ""
$ICA.Launch = $true
$ICA.OutputMode = [WFICALib.OutputMode]::OutputModeNormal
$ICA.DesiredHRes = 1024
$ICA.DesiredVRes = 768
$ICA.DesiredColor = [WFICALib.ICAColorDepth]::Color16bit
$ICA.Connect()

This will connect an ICA session. To view all event available, we can use the following code:

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ICA connections using Powershell – Part 2

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In part 1, I talked about the basics of using the ICA Client Object SDK (ICO SDK). In this second part, I’ll talk about modifying the appearance of your ICA connection using the ICO SDK. This includes:

  • Resolution
  • Color Depth
  • Fullscreen and Seamless Mode

Resolution

The resolution of the ICA connection is modified by setting two properties in your ICO SDK: DesiredHRES (horizontal resolution) and DesiredVRES (vertical resolution). By default the used resolution is 640×480. We already had the following code to make the ICA connection:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\ICA Client\WfIcaLib.dll")
$ICA = New-Object WFICALib.ICAClientClass
$ICA.Address = "XASRV001"
$ICA.Username = "TestUser01"
$ICA.SetProp("Password","MyUsersPassword")
$ICA.Domain = "LAB"
$ICA.Application = ""
$ICA.Launch = $true
$ICA.OutputMode = [WFICALib.OutputMode]::OutputModeNormal
$ICA.Connect()

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