Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops SDK

New-Brokermachineconfiguration

Creates a new machine configuration associated with an existing configuration slot.

Syntax

New-BrokerMachineConfiguration -ConfigurationSlotUid <Int32> -LeafName <String> -Policy <Byte[]> [-Description <String>] [-LoggingId <Guid>] [-AdminAddress <String>] [-BearerToken <String>] [<CommonParameters>]
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Detailed Description

Creates a new machine configuration containing settings that match the SettingsGroup of the associated configuration slot. This machine configuration can then be applied to a desktop group to have the settings applied to machines in that group.

The SettingsGroup of the configuration slot restricts the permitted settings. Use the SDK snap-in that matches the SettingsGroup to create the encoded settings data.

Parameters

Name Description Required? Pipeline Input Default Value
ConfigurationSlotUid Unique identifier of the configuration slot to associate with this machine configuration. true true (ByPropertyName) None
LeafName Name of the new machine configuration. This must be unique amongst the machine configurations associated with the same configuration slot. true true (ByPropertyName) None
Policy A binary array of encoded settings (policy) data created with the SDK snap-in that matches the SettingsGroup of the configuration slot. true true (ByPropertyName) None
Description Description of the new machine configuration. false true (ByPropertyName)  
LoggingId Specifies the identifier of the high level operation that this cmdlet call forms a part of. Desktop Studio and Desktop Director typically create High Level Operations. PowerShell scripts can also wrap a series of cmdlet calls in a High Level Operation by way of the Start-LogHighLevelOperation and Stop-LogHighLevelOperation cmdlets. false false  
AdminAddress Specifies the address of a XenDesktop controller that the PowerShell snapin will connect to. This can be provided as a host name or an IP address. false false Localhost. Once a value is provided by any cmdlet, this value will become the default.
BearerToken Specifies the bearer token assigned to the calling user false false  

Input Type

None

You cannot pipe input into this cmdlet.

Return Values

Citrix.Broker.Admin.Sdk.Machineconfiguration

New-BrokerMachineConfiguration returns the newly created configuration

Notes

Delegated Administration can be used to restrict the configuration slots that an administrator can use and hence which components of the system that can be configured.

Examples

Example 1

New-BrokerMachineConfiguration -LeafName "Finance Department" -Description "Finance Dept. User Profile Management policy" -Policy $policy -ConfigurationSlotUid $csUid
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Description

Creates a new configuration named “%SlotName%\Finance Department” where %SlotName% is the name of the configuration slot having the Uid $csUid. The encoded settings in the $policy variable must match the SettingsGroup of the configuration slot having the Uid $csUid.

New-Brokermachineconfiguration