If you have a VMware environment and you're looking to save time with management and maintenance, take a look at the VMware inventory tool XIA Configuration Server. The software automatically builds a VMware inventory using its detection feature. This automatically detects vCenter installations on Windows machines which, in turn, are automatically detected by scanning Active Directory. The inventory data retrieved from vCenter or ESX systems includes: Virtual Machines Hosts Distributed Switches Resource Pools Clusters Datastores You can view the data in the XIA Configuration Server web interface where you can also compare items and save as PDF or XML. Download Free 30-Day Trial > Learn more >

This post describes how to fix id store error 0x80000007. Problem You're using the XIA Configuration Client to scan your Citrix XenApp Farm and you get id store error 0x80000007 entry not found. For example: ' The Citrix XenApp farm agent encountered an exception when 'Reading section'. Error executing the command 'command'. Cannot find object with id objectidentifier (0x80000007 Entry not found.). ' Cause One cause of this error is when objects have been deleted from the Citrix Data Store but they are still referenced by other objects within the Citrix Farm.  The object is marked as "Unknown" when viewed in Citrix AppCenter: Screenshot showing object marked as Unknown Solutions Use Citrix AppCenter to remove the unknown objects Use DSCHECK to clean the Citrix Data Store Then re-scan your Citrix XenApp Farm with the XIA Configuration Client.

To get all the applications that have been added to XIA Links, including their possible location paths, use the API which is accessed from the XIA Links Server homepage: The GET_MyApplications operation returns a list of all the applications.  Each application within this list contains the name and a list of possible location paths. Here is an example PowerShell script which connects to the server, gets the applications then loops through each application and writes out the name and possible location paths to a CSV file which is saved in c:\temp # Connect to the server Clear-Host $url = " http://localhost/XIALinks/linksservice.asmx " Write-Host "Connecting to XIA Links Server at" $url $xia = New-WebServiceProxy -UseDefaultCredential -Uri $url Write-Host "Connected as" $xia . WhoAmI() Write-Host "" # Write the CSV headers $binaryData = "Application name, Possible Application Location Paths"...