Ferry fstelte

Performance collection files like *.etl and *.blg files I work with on a daily basis as a performance consultant. Collecting the files is quite easy, working with them can be teadious. Especially when the log files are seperated (because you don’t want logging to be the bottleneck in the performance and you schedule log creation for once in the x minutes). Because opening the different log files can be very time constraining and not give the entire view of the timeline, I like to merge files.

Create a Lab environment Currently I am creating and deleting AD pretty often, because I am trying out stuff in my Lab environment. Too reproduce the same enviroment I created the same OU’s, users and groups everytime, by hand. This post is about how I create a lab environment. So I created a powershell script to create the Lab environment Also created a powershell script to delete the entire environment from an existing AD and leave the rest intact, just if you need a “Lab environment” in an existing AD and want to delete afterwards.

At a customer we are using App-V 5.0 and RES Workspace Manager on XenApp 7.6 with Windows Server 2012 R2. For App-V the full infrastructure is in use. We wanted to make it possible for users to do an publishing refresh App-V applications without having them enter powershell commands or having them to logoff and logon. After the publishing refresh the script will initiate a workspace refresh. I created an application with the following Settings: