‘Provisioning Services’

• Using XenDesktop with Hyper-V

  Posted Feb 5 2010 by Jarian Gibson with 2 Comments

  Recently I have worked with Hyper-V and SCVMM in my lab to get more hands on with Hyper-V R2. I also recently started working with XenDesktop and Hyper-V using the lab manuals I received when I attended Citrix and Microsoft VDI Training back in November. …

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• Updating Provisioned XenApp vDisks: To XenAppPrep or not to XenAppPrep?

  Posted Jan 12 2010 by Jarian Gibson with 7 Comments

  Over a month ago I was in some conversations with some fellow Citrix consultants on Twitter about how they use XenAppPrep when updating provisioned XenApp servers.  There has also been some forum postings on this subject as well.  This is also a topic of conversation with customers …

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• Upgrading Provisioning Services vDisks Target Device Software, Virtual Machine Tools, and Network Drivers

  Posted Dec 9 2009 by Jarian Gibson with 22 Comments

  With each release of a Provisioning Services Target Device update, hypervisor virtual machines tools update, or network drivers update we are tasked with upgrading the Provisioning Services vDisk and what method to use to complete the upgrade.  In this blog post I am going to …

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• Citrix Products 2010: A Wish List (continued) +1

  Posted Nov 12 2009 by Jarian Gibson with 10 Comments

  This week Helge Klein started a Citrix products 2010 wish list.  Tim Arenz expanded on Helge’s wish list on his blog earlier today.  I want to expand on both Helge’s and Tim’s additions with my own wishes as well.  I’m sure they both don’t mind …

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• Provisioning Services Database Redundancy – Mirroring or Replication?

  Posted Oct 22 2009 by Jarian Gibson with 3 Comments

  Awhile back I wrote the blog post Provisioning Services 5.1 Specifiy Database Mirror Failover Partner…Huh? and got some good feedback from Pete Downing the Principal Product Manager for Provisioning Services.  In his comments on my blog post he mentioned that he would like to discuss my …

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