Citrix Provisioning Services™ uses streaming technology to dynamically deliver server workloads and desktop images on demand to any physical or virtual machine, reducing IT capital and operational costs while increasing business agility.
Provisioning Services 6.0 adds new features that enhance your ability to manage and deploy shared vDisk images.
If you’re using mandatory profiles and you’re stuck at “Please wait for the Local Session Manager” for about 2 minutes during logon…
Try deleting the “Local” and “LocalLow” directories in the mandatory profile’s appdata folder.
I disable the cursor blink rate (HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\CursorBlinkRate) for XenApp and XenDesktop users. It’s usually part of the mandatory profile and I would probably consider it a best practice for virtual desktop environments.
I’ve never had a problem with setting the registry value to “–1” until today. continue reading…
Here’s a Powershell script that can be used to perform a simple unattended installation of the Citrix Web Interface. continue reading…
Group Policy Preferences (GPP) can be used to enforce best practices on Provisioning Servers.
There are a couple of well known registry tweaks that Citrix recommends for Citrix Provisioning Servers. Here’s an example of how you can ensure the registry modifications are added to all of your Citrix Provisioning Servers. (Older operating systems require GPP Client-side extensions and some additional prerequisites.) continue reading…
If you automated your Provisioning Server builds using the silent installation wizard then the Provisioning Services Console crashes when you try to configure a server’s bootstrap. continue reading…