EUC books and toolset

Still it’s worth spending money on books, which brings you non-scattered content, which can be supplemented with the latest updates comming from the great documentation from the venrods, or not. Thank you Carl and Bas Van Kaam.

Books

Apart from community shares, there are great books which reorganize and structure the knowledge.

Citrix / EUC

• Bas Van Kaam Inside the FMA
• Bas Van Kaam Byte-Sized, direct link
• Johan van Amersfoort Free VDI Design Guide - Part I, download it for free
  A comprehensive guide to help you design VMware Horizon, based on modern standards (EUC Design Series)
• Johan van Amersfoort VDI Design Guide - Part II, download it for free
• Claudio Rodrigues DaaS - the complete guide
  A Step-by-Step Guide on deploying Desktop-as-a-Service solutions from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Accops and much more.
• Rds Complete Guide - 2018

AVD

• Mario Moioli Azure Virtual Desktop Succinctly which is pointing to the Ryan Mangan publications
• Ryan Mangan books and publications which are fantastic resources actually, bringing attention to valid topics
• Ryan Mangan Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop, top quality resource

Bicep / KQL

• Freek Berson Bicep - 2021, Freek mentioned that he did an update for it somewhere in 2022

• Manning, Azure Infrastructure as Code with ARM templates and Bicep ISBN 9781617299421

• Bicep - LeanPub
• AweSome-Azure-Bicep - ElYusubov along with the thecloudmarathoner.com
• KQL
• KQL - 2022.08.28 - current link for Azure Log Analytics Query Playground

WinRM

• PowerShell Remoting Trusted Hosts: What does it mean? awakecoding

PowerShell / sourounding topics to EUC

• Month of launches SQL a bit of sql knowledge wont’ harm
• Month of launches IIS worth to grasp some details about iis, it will pay off from time to time
• Month of launches PowerShell

• Month of launches PowerShell Scripting

• PowerShell 101
• PowerShell Error Handling - LeanPub
• Pester Book - LeanPub
• The DSC Book - LeanPub

• Ravikanth Chaganti Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration - An In-Depth Guide to Windows PoweRshell DSC 2nd Edition

• The LinkedIn Code

Scripts

• ControlUP Az RDP to machine webpage - Guy Leech
• ControlUP scripts webpage

Azure - useful links

• Azure Shell - https://shell.azure.com/

Lab

• Paesl
• BDR Suite

Tools

• Diagram as Code github
• Aaron Parker - EvenrGreen - docs, gitHub, apotracker
• Deyda - NeverRed/EverGreen - docs. github
• Aaron Parker - vcRedist - github
• EUCMonitoringRedux - End User Compute Monitoring Platform that is FREE and based on PowerShell. Will cover Citrix, VMware and Microsoft technologies. Driven and written by the community for the community.
• Windows Event Log Analyzer - WELA github
• Logging me easy github
• List RDP connection history github
• DiskSpd github - disk workload, stress tool
• GetSTFolderSize github

• Guy powershell repo github

• RDP Client Liux - RDP/VNC client github
• RDP Client Powershell - Devolutions MsRdpEx
• Citrix PVS Admin Toolkit
• Citrix PVS RAM cache usage
• Citrix PVS disk replicator
• Citrix Auto Download
• Citrix Download Scrapper

• Citrix License usage

• Phil Bossman - PowerShell Desktop Engineering Tips n Tricks PSADT youtube, twitter
• Alexander Schuller - Modern workplace, wifi and ICA - splunkApp linkedin

• Vmware Workstation vmxtoolkit github

• HSF Http File Server - the other way to share your files

• Screen capturing Sharex and github
• Screen capturing Licelap
• Encoding ffmpeg
• Encocing H.265 StaxRip

• Virtual Smart Card - EIDVirtual webpage - Transform an USB Key into a virtual smart card

• WinAeroTweaker webpage

• EUC Application Check - report engine
• Workplace ninja’s Tools

• Master Packager msix

• BIS-F Optimizer webpage
• Microsoft Optimizer github, previous link github, microsoft
• Vmware Optimizer webpage
• Citrix Optimizer webpage

• PVS Kopioi gitlab, twitter - by Patrick Matula

• ADMX reader github
• Sapien CIM/WMI Explorer

• Ks-Soft CIM/WMI Explorer

• Citrix cloud lower your cost

• MSportals.io webpage

• Short link creator

• Aaron Parker vcredist
• MSIX-Hero github
• Ventoy create bootable USB github
• pdf split, merge, mix github
• Ninite - Install and Update your apps at once
• Chocolatey

• Visual Studio Code with extensions

• EtchDroid - create ISO on android
• pcManager
• WizTree - TreeSize alternative, which is just faster
• WinDirStat
• Basilisk

• Brave

• PiHole
• UberAgent and Helge Klein blog post for the usecase
• Glaswire
• w10/w11 - DNS lookup
• Shut up 10

• BoxStarter

• Wireguard server for windows
• OpenSSL easy-csr
• certreq docs
• OpenSSL cheat sheet

• rdpsign microsoft learn

• Invoke-CommandAs github
• RunAsUser github

• String to PsObject txt to PsObject

• Azure Resource Inventory github
• Azure Mask (Az Mask) github
• Json Crack github
• JMESPath json parser
• Regular Expressions made strangely simple github
• Regex AI autoregex.xyz

# get list of IP addresses connected via RDP
Get-WinEvent -Log 'Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational' | select -exp Properties | where {$_.Value -like '*.*.*.*' } | sort Value -u

• GFPGAN github - GFPGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for Real-world Face Restoration.
• Dall-e2 webpage
• wttr.in github

Summary

Last update: 2022.04.29