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provisioning services

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

15/01/2010 - 22:31

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. Below you’ll find the [...]

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Upgrade to Citrix XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 on W2K3

12/11/2009 - 12:41

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 like Sun Java, MS Visual [...]

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Upgrading to Citrix Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1

29/09/2009 - 15:27

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 with PVS 5.1). I also [...]

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Citrix Provisioning Services for Citrix XenApp Best Practice

21/09/2009 - 17:27

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 recently added Must Have tools [...]

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Prepare a Provisioning Services Private vDisk for Shared vDisk

01/09/2009 - 16:37

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 you a lot of troubleshooting. [...]

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