Don’t be so eager to use ALL the products you own.
VMware vSphere with Citrix XenDesktop leveraging Citrix Provisioning Services. It’s a familiar solution in my world these days and it works well. I’ve grown accustomed to the convenience…
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Are your VMware, Citrix and AD teams talking? They should be.
So here are some quick lessons I learned recently in some of the Citrix Provisioning XenDesktop vSphere environments I have been working in. The typical solution consists of…
Troubleshooting Provisioning Server Image Trust Issues
In every relationship, there is going to be some trust issues. Citrix Provisioning Services is no different. Here are two quick items to check when your Domain…
Creating a Windows 2008 R2 Server without that pesky 100 MB System Reserved Partition.
If you are thinking about using Citrix Provisioning Services Server with Windows 2008 R2 server, you are going to want to eliminate the 100 MB System Reserved Partition…
Provisioning Windows 2008 R2 Servers with Citrix PVS
Damn you System Reserved Partition! So you have built out a new Citrix XenApp Server complete with application installations on Windows 2008 R2 Server and are now ready…
Citrix Provisioning target prompting for credentials
Beginning with Citrix Provisioning Services 5.1, Citrix introduced a feature that required an end user to enter credentials to fully boot a target device. My assumption is that…
Best Practices for Upgrading XenDesktop 4 Virtual Desktop Agent.
Citrix has released a new whitepaper detailing some best practices when upgrading the Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA). Nothing too earth shattering in this paper though. Take good backups,…
Released : Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6
Last week, Citrix released a new version of their Provisioning Services product. You can download the latest version here. Lots of new and updated wizards in this version…
How to Resize a Citrix Provisioning Services’ VHD vDisk!
Tuesday, I had a private mode provisioned vDisk fill up completely and needed to resize it quickly. A little googling around and not quite finding the right answer…