Keep It On The Level, The MinimumFunctionalLevel

Kris Davis

3 years ago

Sometimes, over time, you upgrade and upgrade. But maybe you forgot to upgrade your functional levels for your Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups. If you don’t have the right functional level, you may be missing out on features. (Link to functional levels: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/install-configure/machine-catalogs-create.html#vda-versions-and-functional-levels)

So here is a quick way to upgrade the functional level. This is done for “L7_20” level. As newer levels come out, you can change the value.

# This will upgrade functional levels on Delivery Groups and Machine Catalogs. This will need to be ran on either a Delivery Controller or somewhere you have the Citrix Powershell SDK installed.
asnp Citrix*
$adminAddress = "deliverycontroller-FQDN:80"
$brokerCatalog = Get-BrokerCatalog -AdminAddress $adminAddress |Where MinimumFunctionalLevel -lt "L7_20"|Select Name, MinimumFunctionalLevel
$brokerDesktopGroup = Get-BrokerDesktopGroup -AdminAddress $adminAddress |Where MinimumFunctionalLevel -lt "L7_20"| Select Name, MinimumFunctionalLevel
foreach($brokerCat in $brokerCatalog) {
    Get-BrokerCatalog -AdminAddress $adminAddress -name $brokerCat.name | Set-BrokerCatalog -MinimumFunctionalLevel L7_20
    }
foreach($brokerDesk in $brokerDesktopGroup) {
    Get-BrokerDesktopGroup -AdminAddress $adminAddress -name $brokerDesk.name | Set-BrokerDesktopGroup -MinimumFunctionalLevel L7_20
    }
# Check Machine Catalogs after upgrading functional levels
Get-BrokerCatalog -AdminAddress $adminAddress |Where MinimumFunctionalLevel -lt "L7_20"| Select Name, MinimumFunctionalLevel
# Check Delivery Groups after upgrading functional levels
Get-BrokerDesktopGroup -AdminAddress $adminAddress |Where MinimumFunctionalLevel -lt "L7_20" | Select Name, MinimumFunctionalLevel