Tag Archives: PVS
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.6, Provisioning Services 7.6 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Boot Device Manager, Write Cache and Personal vDisk Drives
Ever since the first article in this series came out in January 2014, I have been asked by numerous people to add an article that includes Boot Device Manager (BDM). Since I am here but to serve, I
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.6, Provisioning Services 7.6 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Write Cache and Personal vDisk Drives
December 24, 2014
The original articles I wrote for XenDesktop 7.1 and PVS 7.1 and XenDesktop 7.5 and PVS 7.1 have proven to be extremely popular. This article will show the same process as the original articles but
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HP Moonshot – Lessons Learned and Tips from My First HP Moonshot and Citrix XenDesktop Proof of Concept
September 8, 2014
Recently, I was involved in my first HP Moonshot Proof of Concept (PoC). HP Moonshot is a fairly new technology that can be used to provide hosted desktops to users with Citrix XenDesktop 7.x. Â If yo
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.5, Provisioning Services 7.1 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Write Cache and Personal vDisk Drives
July 14, 2014
The original article I wrote for XenDesktop 7.1 and PVS 7.1 has proven to be extremely popular. Several people have asked for an article that uses XenDesktop 7.5. This article will show the same p
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PVS V4.1 Documentation Script Has Been Updated 2-FEB-2014
February 2, 2014
I received a message on Twitter from the very smart and always helpful Shane Kleinert (@ShaneKleinert you should follow him) asking if my Provisioning Services (PVS) documentation script had the vDisk
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Citrix Provisioning Services, Bluecat DHCP Appliance and PXE-E32: TFTP Open Timeout Error
January 9, 2014
At a recent XenDesktop and PVS project we ran into an issue where even though DHCP Options 66 and 67 were configured, we could not get rid of the PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout error. This short article
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PVS V3 Documentation Script and Support for PVS 7.1
October 25, 2013
The PVS V3 documentation script has been tested with Provisioning Services 7.1 running on Windows Server 2012 R2 and ran with no issues. Since Server 2012 R2 comes with PowerShell V4, that means tha
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Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 3
July 18, 2013
Now that Citrix has released Provisioning Services (PVS) 7, it was time to update the PVS documentation script to add support for PVS 7. This article documents the changes made to the script. To st
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Provisioning Services 7 and Server 2012 Group Managed Service Account
June 29, 2013
Citrix released Provisioning Services version 7 (PVS7) with support for running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Server 2012 has a really nice new feature called Group Managed Service Accounts (g
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PVS V2 Documentation Script Has Been Updated 17-JUN-2013
June 17, 2013
A reader, Corey Tracey, emailed me and asked me if there was way to run the PVS V2 script from one computer against multiple untrusted domains that each contain a PVS Farm. Turns out there was a way
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PVS V2 Documentation Script Has Been Updated 07-JUN-2013
June 7, 2013
A reader, Corey Tracey, emailed me and told me I missed the vDisk Load Balancing menu item for PVS 6.x. OOPS! That is now fixed. Here is what I missed for vDisk Pool: Load Balancing menu vDisk Lo
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PVS V2 Documentation Script Has Been Updated 22-APR-2013
April 22, 2013
While at a customer site recently that had a fairly large PVS 6.1 implementation, I was dissatisfied with the Table of Contents for the Word document. I thought some of the Section Headings needed t
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Using My Citrix PVS PowerShell Documentation Script with Remoting
March 15, 2013
I needed to figure out how to run my latest PVS documentation script without having Microsoft Word installed on the PVS server. This turned out to be much simpler than I thought it would be. There
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Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 2
February 20, 2013
The script to document a Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) farm has proven to be very popular. I have always wanted to take the time to create a version of the script that would output to a Microso
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Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
April 13, 2012
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 s
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Where to Get Copies of the Various Scripts
September 30, 2011
Many people have asked me where they can get copies of the PowerShell documentation scripts. To make it easier to find, I have linked to all of them in this one article.
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Connection timed out (0x4c126035) Connecting to vDisk on Citrix Provisioning Services Server
August 15, 2011
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.binâ
December 30, 2014
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