‘Provisioning Services’

• Scale-Out File Server Role and Citrix Provisioning Services vDisk Stores: My Thoughts and Recommendations

  Posted Jan 4 2014 by Dane Young with 13 Comments

  Updated: The focus and root cause in this blog post has changed since I initially wrote it.  There are tons of good nuggets in the first section, so I decided to leave them so readers could follow my troubleshooting logic… Over the last couple months …

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• Creating Provisioning Services & XenDesktop Virtual Desktops on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V using PowerShell!

  Posted Sep 8 2012 by Dane Young with 8 Comments

  Click to download: WS2012_HyperV_PVS_XenDesktop_StreamedVM_Setup_Wizard.ps1 I was recently asked to do a hypervisor performance comparison using LoginVSI against Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V 2 and the newly released Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 3.  For this scenario we would need to spin up a number of virtual …

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• XenDesktop and Provisioning Services on vSphere 5

  Posted Apr 16 2012 by Scott Cochran with 2 Comments

  I want to preface this post by saying if you are not interested in any backstory just skip down to the summary section for a wrap up… Coming from a consulting background I learned the hard way that you always have to check the compatibility …

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• Configuring XenDesktop 5.6 with Provisioning Services 6.1 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC

  Posted Mar 12 2012 by Dane Young with 4 Comments

  There have been a lot of amazing announcements this week, the most notable was the availability of XenDesktop 5.6 and Provisioning Services 6.1 which now both support System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate (and RTM once announced). In addition, Microsoft announced the availability …

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• Provisioning Services 6 Black Screen Issue

  Posted Feb 6 2012 by Jarian Gibson with 2 Comments

  Citrix Provisioning Services 6 has an issue with target devices getting a black screen or the target devices stop responding on reboot.  This issue is caused by a DHCP lease issue with Provisioning Services 6.  See Citrix Knowledge Center article CTX132133 – PVS 6.0 Targets …

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