Blue Screen with Error Code 0x0000007B When Booting a Target from a vDisk Using Target Device Software 6.x or 7.x

When booting a Target from a vDisk using Target Device Software 6.x or 7.x, you might get a Blue Screen with error code 0x0000007B and the following error description: “ERROR: SOCKET…” The error description will contain additional values as shown in the following screen shot:...

Error: "vDisk is not available. Please check your network PXE boot configuration and restart Imaging Wizard" or "Red X" on Provisioning Server

After installing the Target Device Software and rebooting the following symptoms can be seen: A Red X is displayed on top of the vDisk Status Applet in the Tray Bar After running the Imaging Wizard and rebooting the following message is shown:"vDisk is not available. Please check your network PXE...

PVS boot time message "Attempting to set IP address on Boot NIC.......complete after 51s."

Target devices show a boot time message "Attempting to set IP address on Boot NIC.......complete after 51s." This message was not observed in earlier versions of PVS target device software like PVS 1912...

PVS 7.6: Upgrade Error "A system error as occurred error 0x00000103. No more data is available"

Performed an unattended upgrade from PVS 6.1 = PVS 7.6. Then when attempting to promote a version from Maintenance in the 7.6 farm the following error appears in the PVS Console:"Error: a system error as occurred error 0x00000103. No more data is available" It doesn’t matter if the disk has the 7...

Error while uninstalling PVS target device software : TargetDir entry was not found in registry

We see the following error on trying to uninstall target device software : TargetDir entry was not found in registry...

How to Perform Reverse Imaging on a Provisioning Services Target Device for Windows and its Applicable Usages

When a Provisioning Services Target Device for Windows is booted from Provisioning Services across the network, it is not possible to perform any software updates that affect the network stack, since the network stack changes will drop the connection to the vDisk. The following provides a list of...

Best Practices for Upgrading a Hypervisor Tools Version in a Citrix Provisioning Environment

This article describes the steps for upgrading a hypervisor tools version in a Citrix Provisioning environment. Use the following procedure to upgrade a Hypervisor: 1. Reverse image the vdisk. 2. Boot from the local HDD on the VM that has been reverse imaged to. 3. Uninstall the PVS target...