Citrix Provisioning Services – Upgrade is very Slow
Here is just a quick note that came across my inbox from Rajen Das. In short, he was upgrading 12 Citrix PVS servers (Citrix Provisioning Services) and ran…
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What does Accelerated Office Activation really do in Citrix PVS?
Back in July, we told you about the sexy new Accelerated Office Activation checkbox in Citrix Provisioning Services version 1906. This new checkbox seemingly solved those user complaints…
A Brief History of User Profiles …and an Idea for Microsoft!
Here is a great piece written by Jacques Bensimon. Before getting into it, let me stress that this is not a survey of all available (native and third-party)…
How to Activate Office Faster with Citrix PVS 1906
There is a new version of Citrix Provisioning Services out. Version 1906. Along with a number of bug fixes, security patches, etc.. our friend Aaron Silber points out…
Citrix VDA Setup: What does “Create a master image” actually do?
Written by Jacques Bensimon: Ever wonder how selecting the below “Create a Master Image” option during VDA setup actually changes the installation? Well, I did wonder, and all…
Troubleshooting Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) Stalling at 50%
Here is another great write-up by Jacques Bensimon. On a recent occasion at a client, after building and customizing a Windows Server 2016 RDS image (on VMware ESXi,…
High Level First Look at Citrix’s AppDisks
IPM’s Rajen Das took the opportunity to install Citrix AppDisks in the IPM labs and gave us this high level report: Finally got around to implement this in…
Citrix and SQL always On Designs.
Chris Hahn put together a quick PROs & CONs list to using SQL Always On for Citrix instead of SQL mirroring. A lot of clients have been asking…
Installing the Citrix Provisioning Services Console on XenApp
-- Great How to by Jacques Bensimon: First, why would you want to do that? Well, besides the obvious ability to manage your Provisioning environment directly from your…