The Accidental Citrix Admin - The site for those who find themselves supporting Citrix involuntarily or accidentally
Recently, in one of the Slack Workspaces I am part of, someone asked how to enable PVS-Accelerator on numerous Citrix Provisioning (PVS) target devices. I wrote this article to explain how I came up with a Proof of Concept (PoC) script.
I have been told that if you install the Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) 7.7, or later, console on version 7.0 through 7.6 LTSR that you can use the new Citrix PVS PowerShell. You know, the new, real, object-oriented PowerShell. I decided to test this to see if it was true.
With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment frequently. I thought I would show you how, in just a few seconds, I recreate my entire AD structure.
I received an email from a reader asking me if I had ever changed a production Provisioning Services (PVS) database from a single database to use mirroring. I had not, so I thought this was a good time to try it out and document the process.
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 describes the resolution.
Microsoft recently released their Windows Management Framework 4 which includes PowerShell 4.0. I recently made sure all the current and future scripts worked with PowerShell Version 3.
I am in the process of creating V4 of the PVS and XenApp documentation scripts. As part of the process I wanted to make sure all the current and future scripts worked with PowerShell Version 3.
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 (gMSA). Even though Citrix had to test installing PVS7 on Server 2012, I found that Citrix never tested using gMSA for the Stream or SOAP services. This article is my attempt to see if PVS7 will allow a gMSA for the Stream and SOAP services.
In updating the PVS documentation script to add support for PVS7, I ran into an issue with getting the McliPSSnapin.dll registered. This brief article explains how to resolve this issue.
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 Microsoft Word document. Ryan Revord had taken the XenApp 6.0 script and changed it to create a basic Microsoft Word document. Ryan saved me a lot of work but I wanted improve on the document created by adding a cover page, Table of Contents and footer. This article will explain the changes to the script to create a Word document.
