Archive for the ‘provisioning services’ Category

Fastest way to update PVS Target Device Software With Hyper-V

Friday, January 15th, 2010

The Citrix Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 2 has been released and the most important fix would be Hotfix-9112: Client hangs when using XenServer 5.0 / XenServer 5.5 running a network intensive application. Hyper-V Direct VHD Boot is my favorite when it comes to updating Citrix Provisioning Services Target Device Software. ...

Upgrade to Citrix XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 on W2K3

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Installation of Citrix XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 have a lot of prerequisites and they all have to be installed in the right order. The easiest way is to download the XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 ISO from Citrix and run the wizard. This will install all the other prerequisites ...

Upgrading to Citrix Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

The Provisioning Services 5.1 SP1 is available for download and I would like to share my upgrade experience. If you read the install documentation you will see many upgrade scenarios. I first tried upgrading the Target Device software using Hyper V, but this resulted in blue screen x7B (Works perfect ...

Windows XP Pro SP3 in VMWare off iSCSI Target using gPXE

Friday, September 25th, 2009

More information and How To's at EtherBoot Project

Citrix Provisioning Services for Citrix XenApp Best Practice

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Many of the Best Practices modification are included in Provisioning Services Optimization Tool. One of these settings are disabling the Automatic Updates Service. To run Windows Update on your vDisk you will need to set the service startup to Automatically, start the service and run Windows Update. One of my ...

Prepare a Provisioning Services Private vDisk for Shared vDisk

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

This post will try to list some of the Best Practices I'm using when preparing a Provisioning Services Private vDisk for Shared vDisk usage. First of all I always use XenApp Cloning Tool from CitrixTools.net. This tool are not supported by Citrix, but it's much more powerful and will save ...

Should Citrix pay more attention to Citrix Forums ?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

I started watching the Provisioning Server for Datacenters thread at Citrix Support Forums in end of May. In July there where more than 257 threads posted. I would personal like to thank Jarian Gibson who have more than 3 times more replies than Citrix. Should it be this way ? Provisioning ...

Provisioning Services Personality.ini for XenApp & XenDesktop

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Have you ever wonder what the function of Personality.ini file located in the System Drive of your vDisk? According to the Citrix Provisioning Services Guide 5.1 the Target Device Personality feature allows you to define data for specific target devices and make it available to the target device at boot ...

Citrix XenApp Power and Capacity Management Technology Preview

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Citrix just released the Technology Preview of the XenApp Power and Capacity Management. The XenApp PCM management feature can help administrators reduce power consumption and better manage XenApp server capacity by dynamically scaling up or scaling down the number of online XenApp servers. Consolidating sessions onto fewer online servers improves ...

Citrix TV Beta

Monday, May 4th, 2009

You can follow the Synergy 2009 at Citrix TV Beta.