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Mastering Citrix XenDesktop

By : GUNNALA GOVARDHAN, Daniele Tosatto
Book Image

Mastering Citrix XenDesktop

By: GUNNALA GOVARDHAN, Daniele Tosatto

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Citrix XenDesktop
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

A deep dive into the XenDesktop® PowerShell SDK


PowerShell SDK can be best utilized by users having both PowerShell scripting skills and the XenDesktop architecture understanding. We'll cover some of the advanced details about XenDesktop SDK, and will also learn the most widely used commands of PowerShell SDK.

Key notes about using PowerShell

It is implicit that XenDesktop administrators should learn/know the usage of PowerShell command-lets to make use of XenDesktop SDK. This makes XenDesktop, but not scripting aware, professionals to lag in using the SDK efficiently. The following quick PowerShell usage tips let you easily get started with PowerShell:

  • Ensure that you are running the recommended version of PowerShell. If you are running an older version, but your script is using the latest PowerShell capabilities, the script execution may fail with errors.

  • PowerShell is case insensitive. Command-lets are capitalized for readability purpose only.

  • Command-lets use the notation of Verb-Item syntax...