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Enable Horizon Farm Provisioning

Enables provisioning on a Horizon RDS Farm

Can be used as an automated or manual action to enable provisioning for a Horizon RDS Farm

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.

PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 2.1.8 • Created: 2023-04-06 • Modified: 2023-05-23

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Disable Horizon Farm Provisioning

Disables provisioning on a Horizon RDS Farm

Can be used as an automated or manual action to disable provisioning for a Horizon RDS Farm

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.

PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 2.1.9 • Created: 2023-04-06 • Modified: 2023-05-23

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Horizon – Enable RDS Server

Enables a Horizon RDS Server

Can be used as an automated or manual action to enableHorizon RDS Server after troubleshooting or maintenance.

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.

PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 2.0.3 • Created: 2023-04-06 • Modified: 2023-05-23

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Horizon – Disable RDS Server

Disables a Horizon RDS Server

Can be used as an automated or manual action to disable Horizon RDS Server for troubleshooting or maintenance.

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.

PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 2.0.12 • Created: 2023-04-06 • Modified: 2023-05-23

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Update VMware Tools

The script uses PowerCLI Update-Tools with the -NoReboot flag to update VMware Client tools. The update command -NoReboot flag should prevent the target guest machine rebooting. However, the VM might still reboot after updating VMware Tools, depending on the currently installed VMware Tools version, the VMware Tools version to which you want to upgrade, and the vCenter Center/ESX versions.
ControlUp Console may disconnect from the target VM's agent while updating the tools due to the NIC drivers updating.

Version: 1.3.9 • Created: 2021-01-11 • Modified: 2021-01-18

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Stop Horizon Session Recording

This script uses the Powershell module of the Horizon Session Recording fling to stop the recording of a BLAST session of a user.
Requirements: Horizon Session Recording 2.2.0 or higher
Link: https://flings.vmware.com/horizon-session-recording

Version: 1.3.10 • Created: 2020-11-05 • Modified: 2020-11-17

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Start Horizon Session Recording

This script uses the Powershell module of the Horizon Session Recording fling to start the recording of a BLAST session of a user.
Requirements: Horizon Session Recording 2.2.0 or higher
Link: https://flings.vmware.com/horizon-session-recording

Version: 1.3.12 • Created: 2020-11-05 • Modified: 2020-11-17

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Show Horizon Error and Warning Events

Uses the Horizon REST api's to pull all Error, Warning and Audit_Fail events from the Horizon Event database for all pods. If there is no cloud pod setup it will only process the local pod. After pulling the events it will translate the id's for the various objects to names to show the proper names where needed.

Output is displayed in the console but also saved to a default location of c:windowstempCU_Horizon_error_log.csv

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console). The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.
This script requires Horizon Credentials to be set for the account running the scipt on the target machine, these need to be created using the 'Create credentials for Horizon scripts' Script Action

Version: 4.3.12 • Created: 2020-08-27 • Modified: 2023-10-25

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Health Check App Volumes End-Point

Perform health check analysis of VMware App Volumes on an end-point, reporting issues that may be or were user impacting. Also shows disk mounts and durations for App Volumes mounted for current user sessions.

Version: 3.8.16 • Created: 2020-06-30 • Modified: 2020-10-23

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Show Horizon admin audit trail

Uses the Horizon REST api's to pull all admin related events from the Horizon Event database for all pods. If there is no cloud pod setup it will only process the local pod. After pulling the events it will translate the id's for the various objects to names to show the proper names where needed.

Output is displayed in the console but also saved to a default location of c:windowstempCU_Horizon_audit_log.csv

Version: 4.8.21 • Created: 2020-04-28 • Modified: 2023-10-25

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Recover Provisioning for Horizon Linked Clone Pool

This script acts when provisioning gets disabled for linked clones desktop pools because the overcommit ratio is set too low. It will calculate the correct ratio and set it to that.
After changing the ratio it will enable provisioning and when set to true it can also force a rebalance of the datastores.
When using iwth a trigger the Connection Server FQDN and Horizon Pool name need to be configured manually.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.
PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers' Or by using the 'Install VMware PowerCLI' script.
Credentials can be set using the 'Prepare machine for Horizon View scripts' script.

Version: 2.1.4 • Created: 2020-04-02 • Modified: 2023-11-24

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Take ESX Console screenshot

This script uses CreateScreenshot_Task of an ESXi virtual machine through vCenter. The screenshot is the moved from the datastore folder of the VM to a location of choice.
Screenshots are placed in the virtual machine configuration folder by default. The script moves the screenshot to the desired target folder. For these steps to succeed the account running the script needs the following priviliges:
1. Virtual Machine - Interaction - Create screenshot
2. Datastore - Browse Datastore
3. Datastore - Low level file operations

Version: 1.4.7 • Created: 2020-02-26 • Modified: 2020-08-05

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Disable Horizon Desktop Pool

Disables a Horizon Desktop pool

Can be used as an automated or manual action to disable a Horizon Desktop pool for planned maintenance.

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.

PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 4.6.27 • Created: 2020-02-02 • Modified: 2023-05-24

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