The Gateway service is another offering from Citrix Cloud that you can use with your Virtual Apps and Desktops service deployment. Using the Gateway service is an effortless way to provide users with secure remote access to their applications and desktops through Citrix Cloud, and negates the need for you to deploy, configure and manage Gateway within your own datacentres.
Before creating a connection to your on-premises hypervisor or cloud environment, there are a couple of things to keep in mind. For complete information, see -us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops-service/install-configure/resource-location.html
To create your first machine catalog which will deploy virtual machines to your resource location. In this example MCS will be used to deploy the machines. Click Set up the machines and create machine catalogs to run apps and desktops.
If you are familiar with Citrix Director, the Monitor tab in Citrix Cloud is your access to cloud hosted Director. I am not going to go into detail here as things are much the same across cloud and on-premises. If you want more information see here: -us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops-service/monitor.html
The rather simple script (details below) used to run successfully for about one year. Suddenly it started failing, because theremote powershell script could not be executed. I have no idea what is the root cause of this. Local IT ensures they did notchange anything.
When you execute commands remotely they are run with administrative privileges because only administrators are permitted to remotely execute commands in powershell. The error, "Exception calling "CreateUpdateDownloader" with "0" argument(s): "Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))"" is not a native powershell error, it indicates that this line is failing: $UpdatesDownloader = $UpdateSession.CreateUpdateDownloader(), this line is trying to create the updatedownloader object using the $UpdateSession = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session object.
To run remote powershell commands you HAVE to run as administrator on the machine from which you launch the commands, at least in the out of the box configuration. This is a documented limitation of PowerShell remoting, though it is possible to relax the defaults if you are determined, but that will involve making changes to the PowerShell configuration.
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