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Secure Boot 2026: Why It Hits Provisioning Environments Harder

Wer Citrix Provisioning betreibt, kennt die Arbeitsteilung: Das Werkzeug erstellt die vDisk — aber die saubere Bereitstellung der Umgebung drumherum liegt beim Kunden. Und genau dort lauern gerade Fallen, die nicht jeder Administrator auf dem Zettel hat. Die aktuellste heißt Secure Boot, und sie hat ein Ablaufdatum. Die Secure-Boot-Zertifikate von 2011 laufen ab Microsoft tauscht […]

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PVS Forge – Trial Version

PVS Forge / Thomas Kötzing

Es gibt diesen einen Moment in fast jedem PVS-Projekt: Der Imaging Wizard läuft seit zwanzig Minuten und du hast keine Ahnung, ob das gut ist oder ob er hängt. Du startest ein zweites Fenster, schaust auf Disk-I/O, hörst den Wizard rauschen, hoffst, dass kein Reboot in den Scheduled Tasks kollidiert. Wenn etwas schiefgeht, bricht es

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Citrix PVS Optimization — Do I still need it?

Leave a Comment / Blog, Opinion / Thomas Kötzing

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

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Hygiene of the Master Target Device

Leave a Comment / Best Practices, Blog / Thomas Kötzing

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

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The most important rule with non-persistent images

Leave a Comment / Best Practices, Blog / Thomas Kötzing

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

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