Thanks for the feedback Webster. Looks like I'll need admin perms until we 
migrate XenApp to 7.6 or 8.

- Sean

> On Jul 2, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That is because there is a bug in the XenApp 6.x cmdlets that will never be 
> fixed that requires the use of a full admin. Or at least I have never found 
> any combination of permissions that works unless the account is full admin.
>  
> I found when testing my documentation script using a view only admin account, 
> that issuing get-xazone will result in a hard error because of the bug that 
> requires someone to be a full admin even just to view the farm zone data.
>  
> The guy that wrote the XenApp 5 & 6.x cmdlets did a really great job but 
> before he could finish all he needed to do they moved him to a different 
> division within Citrix. Even though XenApp 6.5 has had its life extended to 
> 2017, Citrix will not fix any bugs or update any documentation related to the 
> powershell stuff.
>  
> Sorry
>  
> Thanks
>  
>  
> Webster
>  
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Sean Martin
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 6:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [NTSysADM] XenApp Powershell SDK
>  
> Hello all,
>  
> I'm working on a PS script to be used within a Site Recovery Manager playbook 
> to automate modifying the worker group configured within published 
> applications. The script runs using an account with Full Admin privileges, 
> however, I would prefer to assign only the permissions necessary to our SRM 
> service accounts.
>  
> I've tried granting all of the following permissions to no avail:
> - Administrators/Log on to Management Console
> - Applications/Publish Applications and Edit Properties
> - Applications/View Published Applications and Content
> - Servers/Assign Applications to Servers
> - Servers/Edit Other Server Settings
> - Worker Groups/Assign Applications to Worker Groups
> - Worker Groups/View Worker Groups
>  
> I've also tried adding the SRM service accounts as local administrators on 
> the Data Collectors I'm running the scripts against. I'm having a hard time 
> finding any Citrix documentation referencing permission requirements.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> - Sean
>  
>  

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