Create VMs automatically on Hyper-V 2008 R2 with the PVS Streamed VM Setup Wizard

This blog (by Andreas Skuban on The Citrix Blog) describes how to create VMs automatically on Hyper-V 2008 R2 / SCVMM 2008 R2 with the Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1 “Streamed VM Setup Wizard”. «Continue Reading»

Starting the XenDesktop VDA

Today i ‘ve had a great remote session with one of our customers at RES Software. His environment contains Microsoft Hyper-V (hypervisor), Citrix XenDesktop (broker), Citrix Provisioning Server (provisioning of vDisks), RES Workspace Manager and finally RES Automation Manager. «Continue Reading»

Three Steps to a PXE-Free XenDesktop on Hyper-V

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Three Steps to a PXE-Free XenDesktop on Hyper-V

An article about setting up XenDesktop 4 on Hyper-V 2008 R2. However, the lab uses a Windows Deployment Server (WDS) for image management and it relies extensively on PXE. Rather than modify the WDS to support the Provisioning Services PXE boot file, the best solution is to make a boot ISO that will load
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