How to Image a Target Device Using the Imaging Wizard

This article describes how to image target device using the Imaging Wizard. Prerequisites Enable Windows Automount on Windows Enterprise Server operating systems. Disable Windows Autoplay. Remove any virtualization software before performing a conversion. Verify adequate free space exists on the...

PVS - Imaging Wizard fails when creating Vdisk. Error after restart 'Imaging wizard did not restart'

When attempting to create a vDisk, the Imaging Wizard gets as far as requiring a reboot, but after the restart returns the error 'Imaging wizard did not restart'...

A System Reserved partition is visible in a vDisk when it is created using the Imaging Wizard.

Using the Imaging Wizard a new vDisk is created. A drive letter is assigned to the System Reserved partition and it is visible in the new vDisk. It is expected behavior by design. The System Reserved partition should be invisible to users. Before publishing the vDisk to target devices, the drive...

Issue: Unable to create a new vDisk

Error: BSOD error "SYSTEMTHREADEXCEPTIONNOTHANDLED CVhdMp.sys" Error appears while booting the target device from network during imaging process. Issue on Windows 10 1709 vDisks...

Reverse Imaging with UEFI targets fail with error : "failed to write disk" while doing the reverse image from vdisk to volume

Description : Unable to create a new vDisk after performing reverse imaging to upgrade VM Ware Tools...

Citrix Provisioning Services: Slow Login Performance with Windows 10 VDA Machines

When we are using Windows 10 Target Devices with Provisioning Services, we have observed long login times in RDP/Console/ICA as well as slow performance when we are in the Desktop Session. System Interrupts are observed to consume high CPU at the same time, locally installed applications takes lo...

Error "Hypervisor did not return the MAC address for this VM:Failed to connect to the remote server" in PVS Console

Getting an error message when attempting to create a vdisk within the vDisk Update Management in PVS console. Getting "Error Hypervisor VM Error. Hypervisor did not return the MAC address for this VM:Failed to connect to the remote server. Unable to locate server. The underlying connection was...

Provisioning services 7.x vdisk Imaging Procedure

To perform imaging sometimes after performing reverse imaging to create a new vDisk from a virtual machine on any residing hypervisor...

Citrix Provisioning Services imaging fails - Target Device Stuck at Windows splash screen

ESXi VM Hardware version 10 and 11 include a SATA controller for CD/DVD Media by default. If the SATA and SCSI controller are present on the PVS Target Device, the Master Target Device will fail to boot while creating vDisk & it will be stuck at windows splash screen...

Error code 0x00007E, BSOD, When Creating vdisk - BNIStack Failed, Network Stack Could Not Be Initialized

While capturing a new vdisk using the imaging wizard software you receive a BSOD. This occurs after the first reboot when the master image VM is switched to boot from the network via the local BIOS. The details of the stop error are: BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized. Error...

Error: "Management Interface: vDisk Properties were Lost" on Provisioning Services

Creating a vDisk fails before completion and displays the following error message: "Management Interface: vDisk properties were lost."...