BSOD WDF_VIOLATION - Unable to Boot Target Device After Promoting VDisk Version to Production

When booting a target device after promoting its vDisk from maintenance to production, it will bluescreen and stay on a BSOD/reboot loop, displaying the following screen:...

Master VM Gets Error "The Trust Relatioship Between This Workstation and The Primary Domain Failed" When Trying to Logon to it Using a Domain Account

When trying to log on to master VM using a domain account right after capturing a vDisk from it, an admin user gets error "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed." Resetting or deleting and recreating machine account from PVS console does not resolve issue...

Office Activation is broken in an App Layering vDisk in PVS if you version the disk or boot it in Private Mode

This article only applies to App Layering 29.1 and before. In 19.2, the mechanism for getting the correct license changes to make it happen in the ELM, before the image boots. So you no longer need to worry about versioning your published image vDisk when Office is installed. When you initially...

PVS vDisk not showing shows no server in size on Second PVS server in the site.

PVS vDisk not showing shows no server in size on Second PVS server in the site. 1. Two PVS servers in site. 2. Both have local storage for the vDisk's 3. Copy the vDisk file from one server to another. 4. Target server shows as No Server under size for the copied vDisk. 5. When checking the...

Excessive Retries Occur when a Provisioning Server Target Device is Deployed on a XenServer Platform

When the Citrix Provisioning Server target device is deployed on a XenServer platform, the device may experience some of the following symptoms: Excessive retries while performing a physical to virtual target build Slow ICA performance when using XenDesktop Freezing or locking with XenDesktop whi...

Provisioning Services :Error: "Missing Operating System" During Vdisk Imaging Process

In the process of two-stage imaging, the target device gives an error of "Missing Operating System" after it is configurd to boot from network...

How to merge vDisk versions using Diskpart

There are times we need to import a vDisk with all the changes stored in different versions while the XML of it is not available. We can use this method to create a merged base outside PVS before importing it in a farm which will not require XML or PVP files for it...

Configuring the vDisk Access Mode

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How to re-create missing .pvp file from vDisk versions

This article explains how to recreate a .pvp file for a PVS vDisk version in case that is deleted by accidentally...

Unable to Delete vDisk Version Because "Delete" Option is Grayed Out

Unable to delete vDisk version because the "Delete" option is grayed out since one target device is still showing that is connected to it. The VM on the Hypervisor is already down, but PVS console shows the device is still Active and connected to the vDisk...

The Stream process is not running on the PVS server

Smart Check has detected that the StreamProcess.exe isn't running. This process is responsible for allowing target devices to acquire images from the vDisks contained in the vDisk store...

PVS Targets experience slow boot

Scenario 1 : After PVS software is upgraded ​ Provisioning Services Target Devices, that are using a BOOT.ISO to boot, experience an unusually slow boot time. The Targets can take anywhere from five to twenty minutes to boot. After the Target Device finally boots and it reaches the Windows Login...

What are Hung Threads and why is the StreamProcess terminating?

On PVS Servers StreamProcess Hung Threads can lead to poor performance, constant target re-connections and even full outages. These Hung Threads are usually detected by looking at the Windows Application Event logs. The following Events will be recorded: Level| Source| Id| Text ---|---|---|---...

vDisk Lost Properties in PVS Console

vDisk lost properties in PVS consoleafter move vDisk to individual file server with MS DFS enabled,vDisk is shown as No server and filesize can not be identified...

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 When Booting Target Devices: "vDisk file access permission denied"

Booting target device to a vDisk was showing the following error after downloading the bootstrap file: "Server IP Address:6930: vDisk file access permission denied."...

Provisioning Services - Not able to delete vDisk files

When attempting to delete the vDisk Files, we encounter the following error: "The action cannot be completed because the file is open in MgmtDaemon.exe"...

PowerShell script to check what vdisk version is being used

Looking for assistance with powershell script to check what vdisk version on the PVS is being used by the VDI desktops Target Devices...

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...

How to Defragment a PVS vDisk with minimum downtime

The purpose of this guide is to instruct a PVS Administrator on the quickest way to perform a defragmentation process on a vDisk, while minimizing the amount of downtime incurred for the PVS Targets. It is important to note that, while this process can be performed without having to Power Down th...