Carl Webster
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Last updated on August 17, 2021
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New Script: Documenting Parallels RAS with Microsoft PowerShell

It is my honor to introduce a new documentation script to the End User Computing community. This new script documents Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) and is based on version 17.1. I started work on this script on February 9, 2018, with RAS 16.0. It has taken one day shy of 2.5 years to finish the script. It took several product and PowerShell cmdlet updates to get to where I could document the majority of the product.

Parallels RAS is committed to continue working to include more PowerShell cmdlets in the future versions which will help me to fully document configuration available in the RAS Console.

This new script follows the same new script processing as the Citrix Federated Authentication Service script. The default output is now HTML, not Microsoft Word, and you can select multiple output formats. You can choose all four output formats if you wish like I do when I am testing the script. Making these changes allows me to use only one ParameterSet instead of five.

If you use any of the other documentation scripts, you know my goal is to follow a product’s console and document every nook and cranny and all available right-click properties, options, and details. Figures 1 through 8 show some of the various items in the RAS 17.1 console.

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The list below highlights the RAS console items which are documented and others that have been left out (marked accordingly).

Figure 9 shows a sample of the script running.

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I hope the Parallels community finds this documentation script useful.

Download the documentation script. The files can also be accessed from Parallels GitHub.

You can always find the most current script by going to https://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation-scripts/.

Thanks
Webster