February 4, 2019

Removing Chrome data (or anything) from Citrix profiles

Citrix User Profile Management (or UPM) is used in many environments to ensure that users' data is uniform across the entire Citrix infrastructure. This way, a user can access his work anywhere. Citrix UPM handles this by synchronising users' profiles using the UPM share, which can be hosted on a file server. However, there is a drawback to this: data like browser cache are synchronised across the environment as well, along with user profile data.

January 28, 2019

Get a server health status report for multiple servers

As administrators, we juggle multiple servers at a time. Hardly do we deal only with a handful servers. Imagine a situation where you use SCCM to patch your servers, and that the patching is completely automated using an automatic deployment rule and a maintenance window. Chances are, you are patching seventy servers at a time. Unattended. This is a dream-come-true for many environments that have thousands of servers. However, it is also true that every good administrator wants to ensure their servers are up and running healthy, after the patching process.