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Backup & Restore Citrix Storefront Configuration with Powershell

Backup

Ensure you’re running Powershell as Administrator and you loaded the StoreFront Powershell Modules:

Get-Module "Citrix.StoreFront.*" -ListAvailable | Import-Module

Export STF Configuration

Export-STFConfiguration -TargetFolder "C:\temp" -ZipFileName "31.01.2019_STF_Backup" -NoEncryption -Confirm:$false

The IIS settings will be not saved. For example, IIS bindings to the default web site or HTTP Redirect entries that were made, will not be imported when you restore the backup ZipFile.

You can also take an IIS Configuration Backup.

Unfortunately, not all settings will be exported from the IIS here either…
Therefore I recommend to make a backup of the server (VM Snapshot or similar) another method is to keep an installation documentation about the manual IIS configuration and to recheck the config after a configrestore.

$a = [datetime]::Today.ToString('dd.MM.yyy')

function IISBackupCreate {cmd /c C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe add backup $a}
IISBackupCreate

Restore

Citrix Config Restore:

Import-STFConfiguration -ConfigurationZip C:\Temp\31.01.2019_STF_Backup.zip

Afterwards you have to propagate the Storefront Configuration.


Restore IIS Config:

To restore IIS Configuration ensure you define the variable “$a” in the script above with the name of the Backupfolder.

You can find those Folders under “C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\backup”

#$a = "20190201T132905"      
function IISBackupRestore {cmd /c C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe restore backup $a}
IISBackup

iisreset

IIS Custom settings are not synchronized with Storefront Propagate function. The restore must be done on every storefront server.

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Citrix Broker Count Users

Here are some Powershell possibilities to get the amount of sessions or Citrix’s Unique sessions.

Get all Citrix Sessions:

(Get-BrokerSession -MaxRecordCount 100000).count

Get the numbers of sessions per user:

Get-BrokerSession -MaxRecordCount 100000 | group-object UserName | Sort-Object -Descending count

You will get a list with Usernames (SamAccountName) and the Number of Sessions per User

Get the amount of logged in Users:

(Get-BrokerSession -MaxRecordCount 100000 | group-object UserName).count
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GPUpdate on all Worker Machines

This Script will invoke an “GPupdate /force”  command on all CitrixWorker Machines.

#12.03.2018 Jeremias Kühnis Updates GPO on all Workermachines
#Ensure that you are running this Script on a Citrix DeliveryController, otherwise you have to enter an Adminadress like '(Get-BrokerMachine -AdminAddress "FQDN of your DeliveryController").DNSName'  (modify Line 13)


IF(!(Get-PSSnapin -Name "Citrix.Broker.Admin.V2" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){
    Add-PSSnapin *
        IF(!(Get-Command -Name "Get-BrokerMachine" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){
         Write-Warning "Could not find/load CitrixPSSnapin 'Citrix.Broker.Admin.V2' or the Cmdlet 'Get-BrokerMachine' is not available. Ensure that you are running this Script on a DeliveryController Server."
         return
        }
    }

(Get-BrokerMachine).DNSName | % {
      Invoke-Command -ComputerName $_ -ScriptBlock {gpupdate /force} -AsJob  
}

Get-Job
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