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Monitoring Citrix Provisioning Server PerfMon stats using Windows PowerShell

In particular, the most common performance counters we care to look at are: \Process(StreamProcess)\IO Data Operations/sec and \cache\copy read hits % IOPS in particular because watching Stream Process will tell us how many IOPS PVS is creating. Copy Read Hits (CRH) in particular because we need to make sure we are serving end-point IOPS directly […]

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Linux templates keep incrementing ethX after cloning

I had a customer today email me that they created a Ubuntu template within Lab Manager, and after deployment; the VM’s eth0 became eth1 and they could not figure out how to fix it. after doing some digging, I removed the following file from the template and shut down the template: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules I then deployed […]

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Bulk add computers to active directory group using powershell

Needed to go through the environment and find all the computers per datacenter and add them to their respective security groups so they would get WSUS group policy applied to them: So I had to search for a list of computers using powershell, then add that very same list of computers to an active directory […]

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Find all Active Directory computers NOT in a group(s) using PowerShell

Stretching my legs yet again in the MS world using powershell… This time, I need to find all the computers in the Thick OU that are not members of WSUS groups! Get-QADComputer -searchroot “ccs.local/3_workstations/thick” -NotMemberOf “WSUS_WKS1”, “WSUS_WKS2”, “WSUS_WKS3”

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