XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6

Send-BrokerSessionMessage

Sep 10, 2014

Sends a message to a session.

Syntax

Send-BrokerSessionMessage [-InputObject] <Session[]> [-MessageStyle] <SendMessageStyle> [-Title] <String> [-Text] <String>

[-LoggingId <Guid>] [-AdminAddress <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

Generates a message box in the target session(s).

Related topics

Get-BrokerSession

Parameters

-InputObject<Session[]>

The target session(s) to send the message to.

Required?

true

Default Value

Accept Pipeline Input?

true (ByValue)

-MessageStyle<SendMessageStyle>

The style of message box to use (valid values are Critical, Question, Exclamation, or Information).

Required?

true

Default Value

Accept Pipeline Input?

true (ByValue)

-Title<String>

Text to display in the messagebox title bar.

Required?

Default Value

Accept Pipeline Input?

true true (ByValue)

-Text<String>

The message to display.

Required?

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Default Value

Accept Pipeline Input?

true (ByValue)

-LoggingId<Guid>

Specifies the identifier of the high level operation that this cmdlet call forms a part of. Desktop Studio and Desktop Director typically create High

Level Operations. PowerShell scripts can also wrap a series of cmdlet calls in a High Level Operation by way of the Start-LogHighLevelOperation and

Stop-LogHighLevelOperation cmdlets.

Required?

false

Default Value

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

-AdminAddress<String>

Specifies the address of a XenDesktop controller that the PowerShell snapin will connect to. This can be provided as a host name or an IP address.

Required?

false

Default Value Localhost. Once a value is provided by any cmdlet, this value will become the default.

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Input Type

Citrix.Broker.Admin.SDK.Session The session to which to send the message can be piped in.

Return Values

None

Notes

Sessions can be passed as the InputObject parameter as either session objects or their numeric Uids.

This operation is non-blocking and returns before it completes. The operation, however, is unlikely to fail unless there are communication problems between controller and machine, if bad arguments are passed to the cmdlet itself or if the machine cannot successfully execute the operation.

The transient nature of sessions means that the list of session objects or UIDs supplied to Send-BrokerSessionMessage could consist of valid and invalid sessions. Invalid sessions are detected and disregarded and the send message operation is invoked on the machines running valid sessions.

The system can fail to invoke the operation if the machine is not in an appropriate state or if there are problems in communicating with the machine.

When an operation is invoked the system detects if the operation was initiated successfully or not by the session. As this operation is non-blocking the system doesn't detect or report whether the operation ultimately succeeded or failed after its successful initialization in the session.

Operation failures are reported through the broker SDK error handling mechanism (see about_Broker_ErrorHandling). In the event of errors the

SdkErrorRecord error status code is set to SessionOperationFailed and its error data dictionary is populated with the following entries: o OperationsAttemptedCount: The number of operations attempted.

o OperationsFailedCount - The number of failed operations.

o OperationsSucceededCount - The number of successfully executed operations.

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o UnresolvedSessionFailuresCount - The number of operations that failed due to invalid sessions being supplied.

o OperationInvocationFailuresCount - The number of operations that failed because they could not be invoked in the session.

o DesktopExecutionFailuresCount - The number of operations that failed because they could not be successfully executed in the session.

The SdkErrorRecord message will also display the number of attempted, failed and successful operations in the following format:

"Session operation error - attempted:<OperationsAttemptedCount>, failed:<OperationsFailedCount>, succeeded:<OperationsSucceededCount>"

Examples

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------

C:\PS> $sessions = Get-BrokerSession -UserName MYDOMAIN\*

C:\PS> Send-BrokerSessionMessage $sessions -MessageStyle Information -Title TestTitle -Text TestMessage

Sends a message to all the sessions for any user in MYDOMAIN.

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------

C:\PS> $desktop = Get-BrokerDesktop -Uid 1

C:\PS> Send-BrokerSessionMessage $desktop.SessionUid -MessageStyle Information -Title TestTitle -Text TestMessage

Sends a message to the session on the desktop with Uid 1.

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------

C:\PS> trap [Citrix.Broker.Admin.SDK.SdkOperationException]

C:\PS> {

C:\PS> write $("Exception name = " + $_.Exception.GetType().FullName)

C:\PS> write $("SdkOperationException.Status = " + $_.Exception.Status)

C:\PS> write $("SdkOperationException.ErrorData=")

C:\PS> $_.Exception.ErrorData

C:\PS>

C:\PS> write $("SdkOperationException.InnerException = " + $_.Exception.InnerException)

C:\PS> $_.Exception.InnerException

C:\PS> continue

C:\PS> }

C:\PS>

C:\PS> Send-BrokerSessionMessage -InputObject 10,11,12 -MessageStyle Information -Title "message title" -Text "message text"

Trap and display error information.

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