PVS Server Memory Sizing Citrix PVS server will use the system memory as a cache for the streaming operation. It is recommended to allocate enough memory to the server to get the best streaming performances by caching the virtual disks into the RAM. I use Sysinternal RAMMap on the PVS servers under load to find the maximum […]
Original Post The first script I wrote was from before Citrix added real powershell functionality into PVS. This new script leverages the new powershell module. I am not exactly sure when they first added this into PVS (if you know please comment below), but this was developed using PVS 7.12. Pay attention to comments marked […]
Problem: In my environment I have about 300 provisioned desktops, and when I update the vDisk sometimes it can take a while (days) before all of the VMs get the latest version. Especially, in the case of a roll back I need a good way to get all of the VMs which are on the […]
If you have tried to use Windows 10 in XenDesktop with Citrix Profile Management you have probably run into two major issues. The Issues The first issue is the start menu… which is now a database located at %localappdata%\TileDataLayer\Database. At logoff when profile manager tries to copy it off it can’t due to services locking the […]
Sacha Thomet who was one of my competitors for the “Geekovation” contest at Synergy (he won!) wrote a PVS documentation script (http://blog.appcloud.ch/citrix-pvs-healthcheck/). He tweeted a revision, and after looking at the code I decided to try my hand at it. I have to give credit to Remko Weijnen (http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2012/02/29/convert-mcli-output-into-powershell-objects/) for the code to change the […]
I have seen where PVS targets (mainly Desktop OS) will fail to activate via KMS after booting, and/or not get the proper group policy settings. I think this is because PVS hasn’t released the network when Windows is trying to activate/update gpo (or something along those lines). On top of this in my environment I […]