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Why Citrix PVS isn’t Going Away

There seems to be quite a bit of discussion on Citrix replacing Provisioning Services (PVS) with Machine Creation Services (MCS), especially in the n...

Posted on 4/18/2013 11:13:00 AM

Varrow Madness Part 2: Citrix Provisioning Server Implementation and Best Practices

My session at Varrow Madness covered Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) Implementation and Best Practices. I have always been a big fan of this produ...

Posted on 3/26/2013 6:36:00 AM

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Why Citrix PVS isn’t Going Away
There seems to be quite a bit of discussion on Citrix replacing Provisioning Services (PVS) with Machine Creation Services (MCS), especially in the new release hopefully going GA soon. In light of the new release, while MCS is expanding and finding more uses, I think people forget why PVS is still relevant and the best use cases for it.
Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:13:00 AM

Varrow Madness Part 2: Citrix Provisioning Server Implementation and Best Practices
My session at Varrow Madness covered Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) Implementation and Best Practices. I have always been a big fan of this product even before Citrix purchased Ardence which would become Provisioning Services. The ability to stream the server OS over the network and the flexibility that this product gives you is amazing. Even smaller environments can benefit from the advantages of Provisioning Services
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:36:00 AM

User-centric application delivery with Microsoft System Center and the Citrix XenApp Connector for Configuration Manager
This week we are happy to announce the release of the XenApp Connector for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (a.k.a. Project Thor), marking the culmination of several months of collaboration between Citrix and Microsoft.
Monday, March 18, 2013 12:57:00 AM

Download Citrix XenApp 6.x Published Applications Backup and Restore Script
This article contains a script which allows to backup XenApp 6.x Published Applications and restore from backup when needed in just few clicks.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:11:00 AM

Knowledge Base: Citrix Provisioning Imaging Wizard - Failed to Discover 1 of 2 Volumes on the Destination Disk
After you run the Citrix PVS Imaging Wizard and the second PXE boot starts, XenConvert displays the following error message: “Failed to discover 1 of 1 volume on the destination disk” -or- “Failed to discover 1 of 2 volume on the destination disk”
Friday, January 18, 2013 4:46:00 AM

Deploy Citrix XenApp 6.5 using PVS 6.1 – Part 1
One of the keys to a successful XenApp implementation is ensuring consistency across servers within the farm. Even a slight server misconfiguration can affect performance, functionality, and even stability. Troubleshooting these issues can become a time consuming process for Citrix administrators. To minimize the chance of misconfiguration due to human error, Provisioning Services (PVS) is a recommended method for deploying XenApp servers, especially for large implementations. Management and administration of the farm becomes much easier when you only have to deal with a single vDisk versus individual servers in the farm.
Thursday, December 06, 2012 8:42:00 AM

Knowledge Base: Application Launch Requests Fail on a Streamed Citrix XenApp 6.5 Server with Multiple NIC's
When trying to launch published applications on streamed XenApp servers with multiple NIC’s, the application fails to launch.This was seen in an environment with XenApp 6.5, streamed from Provisioning 6.1 servers while the XenApp server contains 2 NIC’s:
Friday, November 23, 2012 2:11:00 AM

What’s New with Citrix Provisioning in Excalibur - Improvements to XenApp and XenDesktop
The Excalibur Technology Preview provides an early glimpse at some of the upcoming improvements to XenApp and XenDesktop. While the unification of XenDesktop and XenApp into a single deployment and management architecture and the added support for the next generation Windows operating systems are undoubtedly the most obvious changes, we’ve made a number of other improvements throughout the product. Among those are improvements to both… Read More
Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:31:00 AM

Five Steps for Deploying Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1
The Citrix “Provisioning Services” technology presents IT administrators with the ability to change the purpose of a virtual or physical PC/Server within the seconds it takes the virtual or physical hardware to boot. Moreover “Provisioning Services” reduces operations and maintenance costs by employing enterprise single-image management. In this blog I share the general guidelines I follow to deploy Provisioning Services 6.1.
Monday, November 19, 2012 7:21:00 AM

Citrix PVS and the forgotten antivirus exclusions
During most of my Provisioning services engagements I found that most implementations lack the correct antivirus exclusions for optimal stability. Unfortunately it happens more often than one would expect and I have therefore decided to document the once that most people are missing.
Monday, November 05, 2012 3:43:00 PM

Sanbolic Offers a Simple, Cost-Effective Solution to Achieving SQL Server HA for Citrix Technologies
An avid reader of all things Citrix®, I recently came across a paper written by Mr. Neil Burton of Burton Computing Co.® in the UK that caught my attention. In the paper, titled “SQL Server in Citrix Environments,” Mr. Burton outlines the increasing dependency Citrix technologies have on Microsoft® SQL Server®, including but not limited to XenApp™, XenDesktop®, Provisioning Services™ (PVS™), EdgeSight™, Workflow Studio™, NetScaler Command Center™, Receiver Storefront™ and CloudGateway™.
Friday, November 02, 2012 4:44:00 AM

Knowledge Base: Citrix Provisioning Services - PVS Target Device Boot Failure Due to DFS Replication Issue
In an environment with 2 (or more) Citrix Provisioning Servers, using DFS based replication for the vDisks, after you promote a new vDisk version to Production, the streamed XenApp server fails to load and hangs with a black screen
Monday, October 29, 2012 4:20:00 AM

Replication vs. CIFS vs. Melio for PVS HA (Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop) Deployments
Hello all,Just back from my trip to Barcelona, Spain, where I attended Citrix Synergy 2012. It was a great show and I had a wonderful time checking out the sites and engaging in hundreds of conversations with Citrix partners and customers.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 5:22:00 PM

Knowledge Base: Citrix Provisioning Services - Creating A Simple Boot HA Solution (XenServer)
Creating high availably (HA) solution for booting provision target devices may be quite a challenge since you may need a load balancer solution (Netscaler /F5).
Monday, October 15, 2012 2:08:00 AM

Should You Virtualize Citrix PVS? - Part 2
In my inaugural blog post (which you should check out before reading this follow-up article), I asked this same question about 18 months ago. I’ve always been a big fan of virtualizing PVS and de-bunking the myth that PVS had to be physical, but unfortunately, the answer to that question a year and a half ago was “maybe” or “only in certain situations”. In this article, I’m going to explain why the answer is an emphatic “YES!” (or “almost always”).
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:59:00 PM

Knowledge Base: Anti-Virus Best Practices for Citrix Products: XenApp, Provisioning Server, Edgesight Agent, Edgesight Server
Anti-Virus Best Practices for Citrix Products: XenApp, Provisioning Server, Edgesight Agent, Edgesight Server
Saturday, October 06, 2012 12:02:00 PM

Knowledge Base: Citrix Provisioning Stream Service Is Down Due To SQL Cluster Outage
The PVS Stream service is down due to unavailability of the PVS SQL database. As a result, all the Streamed servers are not responding and users can no longer interact with XenApp\XenDesktop Farms. This issue also occurs in a highly available environment (2 provisioning servers or more).
Friday, September 21, 2012 8:08:00 AM

Knowledge Base: Citrix Provisioning Best Practices
Smart-X professional services team is implementing and maintaining dozens of Citrix Provisioning Server deployments at large enterprise customers. This article, which will be updated from time to time, will summarize our best practices for deploying and configuring Citrix Provisioning services.
Friday, September 14, 2012 6:32:00 AM

Creating Provisioning Services & XenDesktop Virtual Desktops on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V using PowerShell!
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 desktops on Hyper-V 2.0 and Hyper-V 3.0 using Citrix Provisioning Services and Citrix XenDesktop for the connection broker.
Saturday, September 08, 2012 9:52:00 PM

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