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Citrix Provisioning Services

Jun 06, 2016
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Provisioning Services

Citrix Provisioning Services tutorials and general information on the product around system requirements, installation and configuration.

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Citrix Support Fix and Known Issues List

Sep 12, 2017
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App Layering, Citrix Cloud, NetScaler, Provisioning Services, Receiver, Windows Server, XenApp/XenDesktop, XenServer

A list containing the majority of Citrix support articles collated to make this page a one stop place for you to search for and find information regarding any issues you have with the main Citrix products and their related dependencies.

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Create SCVMM VM Template for use with PVS Streamed VM Setup Wizard

Jan 09, 2017
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Provisioning Services

This post outlines the general steps taken to prepare a System Center Virtual Machine Manager VM Template to be used with the Citrix Provisioning Services Streamed VM Setup Wizard.

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Speeding up Citrix PVS merge and boot times with VHDX, UEFI and ReFS

Nov 25, 2016
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Provisioning Services

Citrix Provisioning Services is one of those components I love to sit down and play with to try and make operations such as vDisk booting faster. Since the release of Citrix PVS 7.7 there has been a few great enhancements that we can easily implement today to achieve better all-round performance with vDisks and Target Device VMs.

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PVS Reverse Image with VMware vCenter Converter

Jul 28, 2016
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Provisioning Services

This post shows you how to perform reverse imaging of a vDisk to update either the PVS Target Device software, VMware Tools or something else that may break your PVS stream! We will be using a mixture of VMware vCenter Converter and Windows 2012 R2 to mount the VHD. This post will also (not something I was expecting it to) go over diagnosing the VHD (vDisk) if it becomes corrupt or the PVS image has a System Reserved partition. Keep Reading

PVS Target Device Software update with Hyper-V – Reverse Image

Jul 14, 2016
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Provisioning Services

If you are running PVS Target Device software version 7.6 or below and want to upgrade, unfortunately you will need to reverse your PVS image to boot as a local hard drive from a VM.

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Provisioning Services XenDesktop Setup Wizard

May 25, 2016
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Provisioning Services

Unlike the PVS Streamed VM Setup Wizard, the XenDesktop Setup Wizard is the newer machine deployment option offered by PVS and should in most cases be your method of choice when deploying extra target VMs to your Citrix environment.

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Citrix AppDisk

May 10, 2016
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Provisioning Services, XenApp/XenDesktop

Citrix AppDisk is a new layering technology released in XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8 (all versions) that lets you layer additional applications on top of a Desktop or Server OS host (or both concurrently) instead of traditionally installing those applications directly within the gold MCS or PVS image. AppDisks will be replaced by Unidesk layering technology. Unidesk was aquired by Citrix in January 2017.

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TFTP Load Balancing with Citrix NetScaler

To load balance TFTP via NetScaler you first need to create servers, services, monitors and a Load Balanced vServer.

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Citrix PVS Boot Device Manager

Jan 22, 2016
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Provisioning Services

Using Citrix NetScaler you can load balance TFTP requests to deliver the bootstrap file to PVS Target VMs. You can provide PVS boot information from an ISO generated by Boot Device Manager. You can also use PXE built right in to PVS or use DHCP via options 66/67.

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