Here is a quick tip for you. I had a need to get the Citrix Configuration Log, so I dropped into PowerShell and ran Get-CtxConfigurationLogReport. That is all good and well, but you do not get all the old and new values of the changed properties. However, converting this output to JSON will do just what I want. Plus, converting to JSON is better for me anyway as I want to push this stuff over to Splunk to do some analytics. Here is what you need to do:

Step 1 – Create your UDL file to connect to the database

Add-Content C:\conflog.udl –Value $null; Start-Process C:\conflog.udl

This will prompt you for your SQL credentials. You can use Windows integrated security if you like, but I’m saving my creds for later use outside of my interactive PowerShell session later.

Step 2 – Get the things

# Load the Citrix Common Commands Snapin
Get-PSSnapin -Registered "Citrix.Common.Commands" | Add-PSSnapin

# Get the configuration log and convert to JSON
Get-CtxConfigurationLogReport -DataLinkPath C:\conflog.udl | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 10

Here is some sample output (notice the property old and new values)

{
    "EntryId":  "3_0_3",
    "Date":  "\/Date(1443804400000)\/",
    "Account":  "LAB\\administrator",
    "TaskType":  2,
    "ItemType":  0,
    "ItemName":  "Calc",
    "Description":  "Published application Calc was modified.",
    "Details":  [
                    {
                        "PropertyName":  "Application Description",
                        "OldValue":  "Calculator",
                        "NewValue":  "Calculator 123"
                    }
                ],
    "References":  [
                   ]
}

Note, this requires PowerShell 3.0

Here is a Gist as well -> https://gist.github.com/JasonConger/62b9c6ce165503a3112c