Citrix Provisioning Server Service Pack 3

Some interesting features being released in Citrix’s Provisioning Server Service Pack 3.  David Paoleschi sent over a quick bullet list.

If you haven’t taken the time to check out Provisioning Server, check it out – it’s worth the time. :) 

•        Standard Image Mode NIC Teaming

•        Ability to use NIC Teaming drivers from Broadcom and Intel to setup NIC "teams" on PVS clients

•        VHD Direct Boot

•        Ability to boot PVS VHD files directly within Windows Virtual Server and Hyper-V

•        User Assigned Virtual Disks

•        vDisks are assigned to individual users rather than machines.

•        Offline DB Support

•        Ability for PVS to continue to be able to boot and run clients even when the DB is unavailable.

•        Multiple Partition vDisks

•        Ability to create vDisks that include multiple partitions (e.g. both a C:\ and D: drive)

•        Server Initiated Failover

•        Ability to initiate failover of all clients attached to a particular PVS server to the other servers in the PVS farm

•        Improved Logging

•        Improvements to our current lackluster (and in some cases non-existent) logging facilities both on the server and the client

•        Auditing

•        Ability to keep a log of actions taken by system administrators

•        Read-only vDisk LUN

•        Modifications that allow the vDisks to be stored in a "read-only" LUN.  This is an incremental step in the direction of eliminating the need for a cluster file system.

•        XP Embedded Streaming

•        Ability to stream MS Windows XP Embedded.  I.e. the replacement for Ardence Device Edition.