Carl Webster

A customer site I was at recently needed their Provisioning Services (PVS) farm documented. Since I had already created PowerShell scripts to document the various versions of XenApp, I figured a PVS script should be easy to create. I could not have been more wrong in my thinking! This article and script were written on [...]

In Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1, when setting a new device to boot from vDisk using XenServer 5.6 SP2, the following error was received (Figure 1): Could not boot from filename “ardpb32.bin”: Connection timed out (0x4c126035) Performing a search via an Internet search engine returned various solutions for older versions of XenServer and also recommendations [...]

WHEW!!! I honestly never thought I would get the PVS and XenApp article completed. I swear, if you put ten Citrix Consultants in a room you will get, at a minimum, 50 different viewpoints on how PVS should be installed, configured and maintained. This three-part series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) started out to [...]

Prepare the Master Image for Updating In Part 2, you learned how to: Create a master image, Create a vDisk in PVS for the master image, Install Target Device software, Use XenAppPrep, Download XenConvert, Optimize a master image, Use XenConvert, and Test streaming a new image. In this Part 3, you will learn how to: [...]

Creating the Master Image In Part 1, you learned how to: Prepare to install PVS, Install PVS 5.6 SP1, and Perform basic configuration of PVS 5.6 SP1. In this Part, you will learn how to: Create a master image, Create a vDisk in PVS for the master image, Install Target Device software, Use XenAppPrep, Download [...]

Building servers manually — that means one at a time – is a long-standing and honorable tradition in Information Technology (IT) organizations.  And it needs to stop! There are many issues that can arise when manually building servers. However, one of the most dangerous and insidious problems is that inconsistencies in those server builds are [...]