Es gibt diese Aufgaben, bei denen man als Admin genau weiß, wie der Nachmittag verläuft. vDisk-Imaging gehört klassisch dazu: Imaging Wizard starten, danebensitzen, warten, den Master neu starten, prüfen, ob noch eine Sitzung offen ist, danach die vDisk mühsam auf die anderen PVS-Server kopieren und schließlich im PVS importieren. Ein halber Nachmittag, den man selten […]
1-2-3, and the vDisk is ready! Read More »
Anyone who uses Citrix Provisioning is familiar with the division of labor: The tool creates the vDisk—but it’s up to the customer to ensure the environment around it is set up properly. And that’s exactly where pitfalls lurk that not every administrator is aware of. The latest one is called Secure Boot, and it has an expiration date. The 2011 Secure Boot certificates are expiring; Microsoft is replacing them
Secure Boot 2026: Why It Hits Provisioning Environments Harder Read More »
Today, the VDAs run as virtual instances on the hypervisor, generously equipped with vRAM, and Windows itself has become significantly less resource-intensive than the Windows 7 of back then. So, do I even need all this optimization drama anymore? The short answer: Not most of it. But there is one thing—and that’s non-negotiable. The one optimization that
Citrix PVS Optimization — Do I still need it? Read More »
There’s that one moment in almost every PVS project. A worker doesn’t boot properly, a policy isn’t taking effect, and the admin is staring at an image that has accumulated all sorts of things over the years. No one remembers exactly why that one service is still running or who set that registry key back then. Welcome to the topic of system hygiene
Hygiene of the Master Target Device Read More »
When introducing new admins to PVS or MCS, there’s one rule that suddenly makes everything click—and ensures you’ll never make a certain mistake again. The rule is incredibly simple: When a non-persistent VDI system starts up, absolutely nothing is allowed to update automatically in the background—no matter what software it is
The most important rule with non-persistent images Read More »
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