Archive for the ‘provisioning services’ Category
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Do you remember the old days when we used the hide drives.adm template to hide specified drives along with some kind of hide drives calculator to get the proper value ? So if we wanted to hide drives for Domain Users but not the Domain Admins, we had to create ...
Posted in group policy, provisioning services, terminal services, xenapp, xendesktop | 5 Comments »
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
People new to the virtualization space could get very frustrated when they find out that their Hypervisor of choice preforms much worse than a bare-metal installation. Haven't the vendors and independent analysis like Project Virtual Reality Check stated that there is no longer any excuses for not running Citrix XenApp ...
Posted in provisioning services, xenapp, xendesktop, xenserver | 9 Comments »
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 is out and I have finally had time to play around with it in my lab. There are a lot of bug fixes and great improvements when it comes to Simplicity. In this post I will show you some new GUI screenshots and in my next ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
Posted in group policy, provisioning services, xenapp, xendesktop | 4 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in provisioning services, xenapp, xenserver | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 25th, 2009
More information and How To's at EtherBoot Project
Posted in provisioning services, vmware, windows | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in provisioning services, xenapp | 2 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in provisioning services, xenapp | 4 Comments »
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 personally like to thank Jarian Gibson who have 3 times more replies than Citrix. Should it be this way ?
Provisioning Services has ...
Posted in provisioning services, xenserver | 6 Comments »
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