Last September, I posted a script that I had written to address a few issues in the Horizon View environment that I managed at the time.  At the time, I had seven base images for sixteen desktop pools, and scheduling the Patch Tuesday recompose operations would take half the day if I had to do it manually in View Administrator.

After the script was posted, I learned that there were several issues with it.  While it had worked in the environment I originally wrote it for, I hadn’t properly documented all the parameters in the comment-based help.  This was causing odd failures when attempting to run the script.

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from someone who was hoping to use the script in their environment.  They were experiencing issues with running the script, and after helping them with their issue, I decided to revisit the script and fix the issues.

The changes in this version of the script are:

• Changed the way that the View LDAP database is queried so the Quest AD cmdlets are no longer required
• Removed the Replica Parameter. The script will now detect the correct replica volume from the Pool settings
• Renamed the View parameter to ConnectionServer to better describe what its for
• Made the vCenter, ConnectionServer, and ParentVM parameters mandatory.
• Fixed the comment-based help so all parameters are listed and examples provided.
• Removed all email notification code from the script

You can download the latest version of the Start-Recompose PowerShell script from my Github site.