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@Matthias Schlimm something to be aware of for BIS-F https://support.citrix.com/s/article/CTX678084-image-preparation-step-fixsccm-failed-error?language=en_US TLDR - MCS now handles SCCM cert fixups as part of the ImagePrep, if we delete / action these tasks prior to ImagePrep doing it (such the prep phase), then we might cause issues here

Thank you @James Kindon good to know. Can you put it into a github issue here please https://github.com/EUCweb/BIS-F/issues Thank you 🙏

It's been a long time since I had to deal with a customer who is using app layering... Does BIS-F go in the OS layer or the platform layer?

We created a terminal server by reverse imaging PVS vDisk. BISF was used on vDisk to move event logs from C to WC Disk. Is there a way to point all event logs back to C drive on the terminal server created using script?

Any downside to use BIS-F on Windows 11 multiuser?

I’m using it with latest BIS-F version, but single user. With PVS target device increase the max execution time in the global BIS-F GPO to 120 minutes.

Someone seen something like this ? https://github.com/EUCweb/BIS-F/issues/391 Slow login with profile container after using BIS-F it looks for me to a Server 2025 issue only ?!?

If anyone has the need to remove dynamically updating runkeys, there you go 🙂 Can be added as a custom preparation script. BISF/RemoveRunKeys.ps1 at main · BalintOberrauch/BISF

Guys, This might not be a BIS-F issue, but I’m running into a problem where the permissions on my write cache volume (MCS) seem to get corrupted. The image has been running fine for months, but now BIS-F fails due to permission issues. When this happens, the drive completely locks up— even owners and domain admins can’t edit or create files. The volume hosts event logs, WEM cache, etc. I’ve tried recreating a new volume, but the same issue happens after attempting to run BIS-F. Any ideas? Cheers

Can someone help me out with my thinking process? 😄 Policy is bound to master and clones. Cache Disk on Master is getting formatted and on clones too. Existing Cache Disks will not be reconfigured/expanded and I need to delete the VMs and redeploy them.

Anyone had a situation on a gold image where booting it up and the Pers scheduled task never stops running? Log file just stops, no errors or hangs

Anyone can help with that Issue https://github.com/EUCweb/BIS-F/issues/395

Guys, I'm looking to use BIS-F on a Win11 master MCS image. The machines it will provision will be persistent so the master image will be maintained for patches/updates but only used for new starts and rebuilds/failures. BIS-F will help for cleanup tasks and firing optimizer etc but are there any specific configuration to consider or avoid in this scenario? I have used in the past for a master image used for provisioning MCS persistent but I'm going back a while and though Id ask the question, Trying to recall if I disabled all personalization tasks firing on every boot. cheers

Seems like Pagefile needs to be set to C:\ with 2402 and later, even if there's a Cache Disk. Session Manager "This session will be disconnected due to a policy evaluation error" - Page 2 - XenDesktop 7.x - Citrix Community

How do you configure the MCS Cache Disk when there's no Cache Disk assigned to the master? Seems like the Personalization Script is not running at boot and I don't find any logfile. Am I missing something in the config?

I'm reposting this as a new thread because my reply from a couple days ago is not showing up in the BIS-F forum on linen.dev, and it may have not synced somehow. 🙂 Grateful if anyone has some insight. Hello @Oz Zy and others. I'm running Windows Server 2019 VMs for my Citrix VDAs and infrastructure. We have 10Gbps in the datacenter everywhere for Citrix (NetApp NFS storage, VM networks, etc.). However, my VDAs (both the "parent" and "child" VMs) only see ~100 MB/s network transfers. On my infrastructure VMs (FAS, DDC, SF) running on the same hardware, I get 200 - 300 MB/s network transfers. I do see that RSS has been disabled on my VDAs, and I suspect that is why I'm only getting ~100 MB/s transfers. So my question is: Does the advice above for Windows 2025 also apply to a fully-patched 2019 install? I see that @Ray Davis posted on Carl Stalhood's site as far back as October 2018 that he recommended having RSS enabled. And should I also enable Task Offload as well? Preliminary testing shows benefit to doing both on Windows Server 2019.

My last successful Azure DevOps Packer Master Image Run was on 30. August. Since then, every try breaks during the eventlog clean-up from BIS-F, but I don't see a reason and this hasn't happend in the last three years. I started "_suddenly_"™️. I did four tries so far and they all break at nearly the same moment and Packer just errors out. Here are the logs. Anybody has seen something like this before?

does bis-f do anything during the preparation or personalization phase that might impact dhcp/dns settings or network adapters? specifically on server 2025, after sealing an image and creating a new catalog, these vm's are hit or miss when coming online and registering. we notice that there are no dns servers listed and the dhcp server is 255.255.255.255. reboot the servers (sometimes several times) and it might register. these vm's are hosted in azure If we do not seal with bis-f, then we are not seeing this issue which is why we are wondering. We also do not see this on server 2019 when using bis-f. so there might be some compatibility thing?

Have you come across where bis-f does not detect your admx settings? One of my engineers showed me an issue today. The gpo values are there, policy is applied when he runs it, it says no admx settings found. The big thing then is since it’s through rds it bails out. I run this hundreds of times and haven’t seen this on any of our other servers. Strange thing as well is it ran previously, like maybe a week ago.

Hello, are there any news on the new Version of BIS-F?

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@Jeremy Are you doing that in general or for something specific in Server 25?

Is the latest version of BIS-F still 1912.7? Any major issues leveraging it with W11

using it with Win11 already, no issues so far

BISF reborn. https://github.com/JonathanPitre/BIS-F/tree/2608

Hi everyone—now that there’s some activity here: I ran into an issue today using the old BIS-F version. New customer, everything configured as usual—Citrix Optimizer and standard GPOs. After running BIS-F and simply rebooting the image (i.e., while in PVS read-write mode), I’m getting nothing but a black screen. It’s caused by something BIS-F does. The log is clean. Has anyone seen this before?

Hi All, we are having an issue with BISF 1912.6 on Citrix MCS (Server 2025). When using BISF to seal the image on XenServer, the child boots with APIPA address and MCS Master VM also has the issue when powering ON after sealing. We are using same BISF version without any issues on Server 2025 with MCS on VMware, PVS on VMware and XenServer. Issue is only with MCS on XenServer.