Using the same image for multiple XenDesktop/XenApp sites. Occasionally I have seen virtual machines attempt to register with the wrong site when doing a multi-site implementations and usually this is…
Change vDisk on Multiple Target Devices
How to change the vDisk on multiple target devices. In some situations you might need half of your target devices in a collection to use a different vDisk or want…
PVS 7.8 Streamed VM Setup Wizard
Creating virtual machines with Citrix Provisioning Server Streamed VM Setup Wizard Citrix Provisioning Services 7.8 Streamed VM Setup Wizard assists in deploying a Provisioning Services streamed vDisk to a number…
PVS 7.8
Citrix PVS 7.8 Server Upgrade Before starting your PVS Server 7.8 or any version upgrade there are a couple things you should do that will allow you to perform the…
Citrix PVS Database Migration
How to Migrate a Citrix PVS Database to a New SQL Server. Before proceeding with migrating your PVS Database to a new SQL Server make sure everyone is aware and…
How to Migrate PVS Target Devices
While working on a Citrix project we decided to build a new Citrix Provisioning Services environment instead of upgrading. The current PVS Servers were running Windows 2008R2 on physical hardware…
Citrix PVS 7.8 Target Device Software Upgrade
Open Citrix Provisioning Server Console. Create a new version for the vDisk that you want to upgrade from PVS 7.6 CU1 or 7.7 to PVS 7.8 Target Device Software on…
Citrix Provisioning Services Console Error Unexpected
PVS 7.6 and 7.7 Console Error Unexpected After upgrading Citrix PVS to 7.7 we had some reported issues when users were attempting to view properties on any vDisk. “Error Unexpected…
PVS Manual Merge Process When PVS Console Fails to Merge Base
How to manually merge vDisk versions when the PVS Console Fails to Merge PVS Differencing VHD Tmestamp differs to parent VHD. Unable to merge versions into a new merged base…
Citrix PVS 7.6 Performance Testing and Verifying System Caching is working Correctly
Verify PVS vDisk System Cache When Using CIFS How to verify your Citrix PVS Servers are correctly caching the vDisks and reading from system cache and not from back end…
Citrix PVS Replication Status Server is not reachable.
Viewing the replication status of your vdisks I noticed an issue where there was an exclamation mark next to the server name stating the server was not reachable. First we…
Using SysInternals RAMMAP to Verify PVS vDisk System Cache
Verifying Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) vDisk System Cache 1.Reboot one of your PVS to clear the current system cache. 2. Open SysInternals RAMMap. 3. Boot up 1 target device and…
Citrix Provisioning Services Show Connected Devices Timeout Error
PVS 7 Show Connected Devices Timeout Error If your having issues viewing the target devices connected to PVS by clicking on “Show Connected Devices” you will need to update the…
XD Wizard and Streamed VM Template Hardware Order
When creating multiple virtual machines for a new XenDesktop Machine Catalog, I noticed that the wizard wasn’t honoring the templates hardware boot order. New virtual machines started up and gave…