Just before but also during Citrix Synergy there was a lot of buzz around the HP Moonshot system, Moonshot is a relatively new concept in which the design will offer multiple hosts to deliver your services.
Tag Archive for PVS
My take on HP’s Moonshot
How to hide the Citrix PVS System Tray icon per user
While working on a vDisk for Windows 2008R2 with XenApp 6.5 based on Citrix Provisioning Services I got a remark that people could see the Citrix PVS Target Tools icon in the system tray and this could be confusing for the end user as they are presented information that is useless to them.
Category: Workspace Manager, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Citrix, GPP, PVS, RES Software, WorkspaceManager
Citrix PVS and PowerShell: Registering McliPSSnapIn
If you haven’t noticed yet Carl Webster is building a script selection to document your Citrix environment on his website: CarlWebster.com and he was looking for testers for his scripts. I volunteered to run some scripts for Carl to complete them and make sure Carl got the input he needed.
RES Software Workspace Manager ‘s AppGuard is unable to protect your session
During one of the projects I’ve worked on we did a Citrix XenApp deployment with RES Automation Manager, as we were using building blocks the deployment was up and running in no time. The usual software was installed on this server: Office, Adobe Reader, RES Workspace Manager and some other supporting components (Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight etc) and my initial tests came out positive but after installing the PVS Target Device Software I got a strange error when starting RES Workspace Manager while starting a new session:
Category: Automation Manager, Citrix, Workspace Manager, XenApp |
Tags: Citrix, PVS, RES Software, Workspace Manager
Shortname issues with Citrix XenApp and Citrix PVS
I was working on a new Citrix PVS image for one of my current projects and the test before running the P2PVS.exe were good, all my apps worked like they should so I prepped the server for the imaging (preparing antivirus, last PVS optimizations and a full pre-scan of my VM) and I ran P2PVS.
Category: Automation Manager, Citrix, RDS, TS, Workspace Manager, XenApp |
Tags: Citrix, PVS, ShortNames, XenApp
Citrix: Server did not respond to a request in time while creating vDisk
At one of my current projects I was asked to take a look at a Citrix XenApp 6.5 server that couldn’t be loaded into a vDisk. When I ran the wizard to create a vDisk from the XenApp machine to a newly installed Citrix PVS 6 server I got the following error: “Server did not respond to a request in time”.
