“Cannot connect to the HyperVisor" when connecting to Hyper-V from the Machine Creation Wizards

When trying to connect to SCVMM to enumeratetemplates for Provisioning Services, the following error message appears: “Cannot connect to the HyperVisor at IP address of Hyper-V. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”...

Error: "Max Number of DHCP Retries Exceeded" when Provisioning Services Target Devices are Unable to Boot from PXE

Provisioning Services PVS target devices are unable to boot from PXE with an error: "Max number of DHCP retries exceeded" This failure occurs very early in the boot process when the PXE client sends a Discover packet to the broadcast domain to find a DHCP server...

How to Prepare Provisioning Services 7.x Master Target Device to be Captured on a vDisk

This article provides the recommended procedure for preparing Provisioning Services 7.x Master Target Device to be captured on a vDisk...

Provisioning Services Console Error is Displayed During KMS Activation

When changing a virtual disk vDisk in private mode to KMS activation and then changing the mode to standard image modeor changing the activation procedure to KMS for a vDisk in standard image mode, the following error message appears, which can be seen in the console.log when in debug level or in...

Inconsistent Display of Machine Names in Studio

Some machine names are displayed in lower case letters in the machine catalog, while all others are displayed in upper case letters. All machines have been created in the same way and were all added manually to the catalogue. The names are being displayed consistently in AD and the PVS console...

How to optimize paging file configuration for PVS targets (Multi-session Server OS)

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Citrix Provisioning Services - Reverse Image General Process After BSOD Or Hang

Updating 3rd party software in a vDisk or vDisk version including but not limited to, Windows Updates, hypervisor specific network tools & drivers, security software, medical imaging software and more results in a Target Device BSOD, hang or freeze, post install. The vDisk may be required to be...

Citrix Provisioning Services - PVS Server 2303 Fails To Register With Citrix Cloud

While running the configuration wizard to register your PVS Server against Citrix Cloud you are greeted by an unexpected console error. "Error Registering Server, Sequence contains no matching element" as shown below: The PVS configwizard.log file will show you this exception:...

Talend ESB SQL注入漏洞

Talend ESB is a reliable and scalable enterprise service bus ESB from Talend, Inc. that enables development teams to manage integration projects in a holistic manner, combining application and data management integration in complex heterogeneous computing environments. An SQL injection...

BIOS Based Provisioning Services Target Devices Boot Slow Within VMware ESX

BIOS based Provisioned Target Devices boot slow through single IO. Background This symptom appears random. It may occur on a single vm boot or many, for example: five out of ten vm's may boot as expected and the remaining five may boot anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes later. After boot when the Targ...

Malicious code in azure-arm-deviceprovisioningservices-samples-js (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware e110c962e6c0af3bc7477b625634d62ce1af160cb49464d997d86733b1d083db Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in azure-arm-deviceprovisioningservices-samples-ts (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 10a9ec2ad000c4ffc3f72d2a845340503f98e3ba6cb9b464867cc24bff5cd437 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

MAL-2022-1244 Malicious code in azure-arm-deviceprovisioningservices-samples-ts (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 10a9ec2ad000c4ffc3f72d2a845340503f98e3ba6cb9b464867cc24bff5cd437 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

How to increase the PVS write cache disk

Increasing the Write Cache disk in PVS target devices...

Power actions fail for all target devices from PVS console

When attempting to power manage Target Devices via Citrix PVS, the power actions for Restart and Shutdown are failing., i.e. right click Target Device Restart or Shutdown, the process starts but fails with status "Failed". No errors are reported in the event logs...

Citrix Provisioning Services - Slow Target Boot With Sentinel One Client

Provisioned Target Devices boot slow or initially boot ok in small batches but after a certain number of Devices are running Target performance continues to nose dive. Target devices get stuck at a black screen or "found vDisk" early in the PXE boot process. Target Devices show an uptick in the...

Citrix Provisioning Services - How To Gather CDF Traces

Starting in 1912 LTSR Citrix Provisioning Services improves on the CDF integration that kicked off in the earlier 7.0 days. This now includes the ability to natively maintain persistent rolling CDF trace logs on each PVS Server and Targets if necessary without the need for additional capture...

Citrix Provisioning Services - Console Error During "Show Connected Devices"

While using the PVS console and right clicking on a PVS Server node to "show connected devices" or by right clicking on the vDisk and choosing "show usage" the console has been known to crash and not display the requested information. You may be presented with an error that the maximum size quota...

Understand Write Cache feature in Provisioning Services Server

Understand Write Cache feature in Provisioning Services Server...

How to Enable Database Offline in Provisioning Services Farm

This article describes how to enable database offline support on a Provisioning Services farm. Background Database offline support allows Provisioning Services to cope with brief outages of the database server without affecting the currently running targets. It is not a substitute for a mirrored...