Have a Dozen ESX hosts? PVS Boot ISOs might not scale well.
There are a couple different ways you can design a Provisioning Services Server supported environment to boot up. Virtual Desktops can leverage PXE, Hard Drive or ISO. This…
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Occupy Hotfix: Citrix PVS patches 66% complete.
It’s always annoyed me to no end that Citrix’s Provisioning Services server hotfixes were manual hotfixes. Just a zip package with some binaries and a text file explaining…
Minimum XenDesktop / PVS account access into vSphere needed.
If you are looking to lock down the your XenDesktop/PVS service account’s access into the vSphere environment, you need to read Jarian Gibson’s post: https://jariangibson.com/2010/12/21/using-xendesktop-5-with-vmware/ He details all…
XenDesktop Setup Wizard fails after PVS upgrade.
After upgrading from Citrix Provisioning Server 5.6 to 6.1, I noticed that the XenDesktop Setup Wizard began to fail by tossing up a snap-in error and complaining that…
PVS Target Blue Screen of Death: 0x0000050 [Resolved]
While implementing a new Citrix Provisioning Server 6.1 at a client site, I was stumped by this BSOD popping up when trying to Network boot a Windows 7…
Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1 error–IPC error 0xA0070002
I’ve been working a lot with Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1 and I REALLY dig the vDisk versioning in it. Sort of reminds me of snapshot management in VMware. …
Updating a Standard image in Citrix Provisioning.
Most of the Citrix Provisioning deployments I come across leverage 2 basic mage types. Standard and Private. Very high level, Private images are read write and are typically…
Some Basic Citrix XenDesktopProvisioning Troubleshooting Steps
Here are some pretty basic troubleshooting steps for your typical vanilla Citrix XenDesktop with Provisioning Server deployment. Nothing too groundbreaking here but good material to pass along to…
Windows Refresher; Renaming Multiple files.
Here’s a quick note Aaron Silber sent over to me reminding me of the super useful F2 key when dealing with Citrix Provisioning Server image files. Hello All,…