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Provisioning Server

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Citrix Provisioning Server 5.6 SP1 released

Citrix released Provisioning Server 5.6 SP1 on Oct. 22, 2010. The release notes contain instructions for streaming XenServer hosts. Hasta la vista, Altiris? Probably not… http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127049

AppSense Environment Manager computer startup actions and standard mode vDisks

Here’s a scenario that happened at work… We’re provisioning farms of XenApp and XenDesktop target devices (standard mode vdisks) and using AppSense EM. We needed to set an environment variable at computer startup and decided the easiest solution was to add the setting to the Environment Manager configuration. I opened the EM configuration, expand the [...]

XenApp Target Device Freeze and Gray Screen Issues

XenApp Target Device Freeze and Gray Screen Issues
XenApp Target Device Freeze and Grey Screen Issues

Tracking Citrix Provisioning Server Target Device Retries – Part 1

Target device retries can be seen from the Provisioning Services Console by expanding the farm, sites, your site, and then servers.  Right click the Provisioning Server and click “show connected devices.”   The retry data from the Provisioning Services Console is nice, but is almost useless because the target device retries will increment while the target [...]

Failed to query mount points. More data is available. (0x000000EA)

I got this error while converting a virtual machine to a Provisioning Server vdisk. XenConvert might fail while discovering volumes. Failed to query mount points. More data is available. (0x000000EA) Enabling automount should resolve the error.

Poor man’s vDisk replication

You can use robocopy to replicate vDisk folders to multiple Provisioning Servers.