“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.”...

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...

Memory Dump File Not Being Generated on Provisioned Target

While attempting to configure a Windows 2008 target server created by Citrix Provisioning Services to generate a complete memory dump, it was observed that the memory dump file was not being created properly. Following CTX123642 – How to Recover Windows Kernel Level Dump Files from Provisioned...

Provisioning Services Server Targets Starting with DHCP Blue Screen 0x000000BC with Duplicate IP Error

Provisioning Services Server 6.0 and later Target Devices utilizing Windows 7 or Windows 2008 Server OS receiving their streaming IP from DHCP, randomly start up to the Windows splash screen and stop at blue screen 0x000000BC. This error translates to a duplicate network address...

VMware vSphere 6 - Citrix Known Issues

Citrix is committed to ensuring compatibility with the latest VMware hypervisor releases. VMware released vSphere 6 in March 2015, vSphere 6 Update 1 in September 2015, vSphere 6 Update 2 in March 2016 and vSphere 6 Update 3 in March 2017. Basic compatibility testing has been performed between...

Event ID 7026 - The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: Bnistack

On a target hosted on a VMWare Hypervisor and running Provisioning Services Target Device Software 6.0 and later,the target device cannot connect to virtual disk when starting it from the local hard drive.A red ‘X’ appears on the virtual disk status icon in the system tray. In the Event Viewer, t...

Implementation Guide - High Availability for TFTP with Provisioning Services

This article is an implementation guide on High Availability for TFTP with Provisioning Services...

Importing an Existing vDisk in Provisioning Services Console Causes Error

When importing a vDisk using theProvisioning Services PVSServer Console, the error “Invalid disk file for . Cannot add disk” appears. The SoapServer.log displays the following text, if Info level logging is enabled: INFO Mapi.Command - Get UndefinedDisks: Disk is not valid, needs to be a base .vh...

Provisioning Services Time Synchronization Requirements

The Provisioning Services StreamProcess becomes unresponsive when a time change occurs on the Provisioning Services Server...

How to Enable Receiver Logging to Troubleshoot StoreFront Activation/Provisioning

This article describes how to enable Receiver Logging to troubleshoot StoreFront store Activation/ Provisioning in Citrix Receiver for Windows...

How to Configure Automatic Virtual Disk Updates

This article contains information about how to use the Provisioning Services Automatic vDisk Update process. Background The vDisks assigned to the clients during the Automatic vDisk Update process are new versions of the vDisks currently assigned to the clients; allowing for the automatic...

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...

IPC Error While Validating Provisioning Services Store

Multiple Provisioning Services Servers in the farm come with an IPC error when trying to validate the store path except on the server you are running Provisioning Services Server console: When validating the store, following error appears in the console Log:...

How to Use Multiple Activation Key (MAK) Activation with Automatic Updates

This article describes how to use Multiple Activation Key MAK Windows OS Activation with Automatic Updates. Note: For Provisioning Server 6.x and 7.x environments, using vDisk versioning is the preferred method to update MAK-enabled image. MAK activation for Microsoft Office products isNOT...

How to Enable Continuous CDF Tracing in Provisioning Services 7.x

This article describes how to enable continuous CDF tracing in Citrix Provisioning, formerly Provisioning Services, 7.x...

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 Grant Rights to be able to Manage Computer Accounts using the Provisioning Services Console

This article describes how to delegate rights to the user or group to allow adding workstations to an Active Directory ADdomain using the Provisioning Server console. Background While it is possible to assign AD users or groups to Built-In groups within AD to enable this functionality such as...

Desktops Do Not Register using XenDesktop and Provisioning Server

When using ​XenDesktop with Provisioning Service, the desktops do not register. Note : XenDesktop might try starting all the machines in your desktop group on the VDA Event Viewer: Under Application: Desktop Service - Failed to start WCF services. Exception Log on Failure due to unknown user name...

Provisioning Services Database Unable to Configure

Provisioning Service database cannot be configured. When configuring the SQL server settings, the following error might appear in the Configuration Wizard log located in C:\ProgramData\Citrix\Provisioning Services\Log: 2013-07-29 14:44:37,864 1 INFO ConfigWizard - ConfigureServices: encrypt the...

Error: "A duplicate IP address was assigned" on Provisioning Server Target Devices

Two IP addresses are assigned to individual PVS target devices streaming network adapters. The behavior can occur on every boot, or intermittently. Background This can occur in environments with DHCP solutions which may assign different IP addresses to individual target devices, at pxe dhcp reque...