it's worth noting that they have some very nice pre-built power packs for Citrix Administration. http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=2033&categoryID=21 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms < jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > Here is a great free utility to get you started learning and using Windows > Powershell. The utility is called PowerGui and it is an extensible > graphical administrative console and IDE for managing systems based on > Windows PowerShell. > > What is really cool is that PowerGui has built a pretty large following and > community and already there are many contributions of what they call > PowerPacks that are prebuilt consoles for things like Active Directory, > Terminal Services, Hyper-V and yes even Citrix! > > So here are a few links to get you started: > *You can download PowerGUI from here:* > http://powergui.org/downloads > > Once you download and install PowerGui you can download and add the > community created PowerPacks > There is a *Terminal Services PowerPack* you can get from here: > http://powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=2071&categoryID=296 > This PowerPack allows basic administration of Termial Servers (view > settings, permissions, enable/disable connections), RDP sessions (message, > connect to, disconnect) and RDP connections (launch, edit settings). > > There is one for the *Citrix Console* available at this link: > http://www.powergui.org/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=296&externalID=2033<http://www.powergui.org/entry%21default.jspa?categoryID=296&externalID=2033> > This is a pretty cool thing, you can logoff specific users, view printer, > hotfixes, enable or disable apps and more. It would be excellent start to > create a console for your help desk. > > And one for *Hyper-V *here! > http://powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=2142&categoryID=290 > > There is quite a* library of Powerpacks *in categories such as Active > Directory, Exchange, Windows Server, Reporting and more! > You can search through them here: > http://www.powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=21 > > What is really cool is once you load the power packs there is a tab that > lets you see what the powershell script is doing in the background. > > > > Enjoy! > Jim Kenzig > Blog: http://www.techblink.com >