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Just had my "hello world" moment with Terraform. I'm following related github repos from @Ryan Butler / @Steve Noel, thx guys. Took me a while to get the hang of it, but i'll have a blog worthy post on https://getvpro.com soon. Have a great weekend 🙂 https://github.com/ryancbutler/Citrix-VAD-LAB https://github.com/StevenNoel/Citrix-VAD-LAB-Single

Who has done much with Pester? Working on an issue where I run the Pester tests, and it writes the XML just fine, but then when my pipeline checks it it says there is a root element missing. Reviewing the XML file looks OK

Updated my Let's Encrypt Automation script process for NetScaler certificate updates. Let me know if anyone has any recommendations on it. https://www.jeffriechers.com/wiki/automated-lets-encrypt-netscaler-certificate-update-process/

Has anyone got the Citrix Image Portability Service to work?? Trying to go from PVS (Windows 10 Ent) to Azure MCS. Keep getting the following error when on the Preparation stage: error=[@{detail=Job failed at step WaitForPrepareImage with the error: Failed to setup target image. Script error: LogIt : Disk volume MSFT_Volume (ObjectId = "{1}\\MININT-I3JRE8H\root/Microsoft/Wind...) status Unknown Looks like the composting engine is having issues mounting the managed disk.

Anyone is using HashiCorp Packer with the AzureARM provider and doing a domain-join? This will break the WinRM connection... After the domain join the packer process is trying to authenticate with the local user to the domain -> packer@contoso.com Of course this will fail... It is not possible to add any special characters to the "winrm_username" parameter like "\\ / \" [ ] : | \u003c \u003e + = ; , ? * @." Maybe someone here has a workaround for me? I dont see any option left. The provider needs to be fixed.

And another Packer question: A few weeks ago I changed a Packer template for a Citrix DaaS Master Image to use

win11-23h2-avd

instead of

win10-22h2-avd

. Everything else in my HCL file stayed the same. The build finished flawless and I thought I was done. Sadly today I noticed, that the build number in the resulting image is quite old. I execute the windows-update provisioner two times. Once at the beginning and once in the end. But all it ever finds are Windows Defender Updates. no OS updates at all.

What does everyone use for image automation on-prem, and are you happy with it? I see some recent posts on Packer. Anyone using LoginAM?

I am working on an application that will allow admins to request RDP and Web sessions as published apps, and then remove them from the groups when the time is up. I am looking for a way to end a published application for a user from powershell from a remote machine. I can see how to completely close the session, but I just want to sign them out of just the named application. Anyone have any cool powershell scripting I can borrow?

Looking for a good terraform example for deploying a NetScaler in Azure with Terraform. In particular looking for examples on adding the IPs for Vips in to Azure.

Hi guys, I'm having a hard time, installing multiple languages from Adobe Acrobat MUI .exe installer, which is available from Stealthpuppy's site(Thank you @Aaron Parker). I really don't want to unzip the package, to be able to install other languages than English. UnattendedArgs as of right now: /sALL /rs TRANSFORMS=AcroRead.mst I've tried adding 1030.mst and .\Transforms\1030.mst to TRANSFORMS, to no avail. Does anyone have some pointers? Server 2022 Citrix CVAD golden image

Anyone have a link to permissions that Packer needs to deploy on Azure? I’m targeting an existing resource group, but looking to scope the permissions instead of Contributor on that RG.

For those that asked, here is my GitHub https://github.com/childebrandt42

anyone start testing Server 2025 on MDT yet? @Jeff Riechers @Eric

Hey Guys, we are currently using MDT for our image creation in our on-prems env (XenServer). I am looking to move to a more modern approach, Cloud ready and open source. Also I would like to update our apps running on our persistent images, software delivery type. Create our gold image for PVS (non-persistent) and MCS (persistent) on Xenserver and do the same in the Cloud at some stage. Based on my researches, I'd say Terraform, Ansible and Packer should tick all the boxes. Any advices please?

Terraform and Packer. Also IPS for taking your on-prem image and sending it to cloud as well. Citrix is putting a lot of work into the CVAD portion of Terraform, so that is being innovated now.

Looking to use Start-PvsProvisionXdMachines to automate building Azure PVS machines. However it looks like it has not been updated, as VDA versions are not current, and there doesn't appear to be any documentation on building an Azure BDM. Anyone use this tool to automate machine building?

Hello, I'm asking for any advice or documentation surrounding the management of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and Git. My company is making rapid progress along these lines and we have a large IT department. I would love to hear about methodologies others have implemented to manage IaC code-bases in Git with a medium to large IT department.

Why have I only just found the enable_tpm function in the Hyper-V builder for Packer?

Anyone noticed any problems with Windows 11 Packer builds and autologon during the process? I set an automatic logon as part of my first OOBE pass (via autounattend.xml) and normally this logs me straight back in and then continues with the SynchronousCommand stuff, but unlike my Windows 10 build, Windows 11 never logs in successfully the second time. During the first logon, I can see the AutoAdminLogon Registry value is correctly set along with username and password, but after a reboot, all the settings are gone. I'm setting EnableLUA to False in the XML file and also have AutoLogon configured in there too, with a LogonCount value of 3, yet still - no joy with the second logon during the build process.

Is there a Packer builder for XenServer?

Hi, Anyone using Chocolatey with packages.config file? I'm having an issue with Checksum of one app and would like to solve it in the packages.config file, but nothing works> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages> <package id="googlechrome" packageParameters="--ignore-checksum" /> </packages> Also tested with: • packageParameters="ignore-checksum" • IgnoreChecksums="true" But nothing works

Don't suppose anyone has ever had any luck doing Windows 11 images from Packer using Qemu? Having real trouble getting it to launch setup after creating the VM

Create Hyper-V machines automatically via Powershell. I just sent a pull request to update the module. Check it out! https://github.com/tabs-not-spaces/Intune.HV.Tools/pull/32

Curious for the folks using Packer. Have you ever had to engage vendor support for anything? I know packer support are options are limited, especially if just using Packer.

<Cross-posted to App Layering channel> Has anyone noticed any problems using Chocolatey with App Layered images? When I uninstall or upgrade any Chocolatey packages, the original folder simply stays put on the C: drive. So if I upgrade Paint dotNet from 5.1.4 to 5.1.6, whether through removal/reinstall or simple upgrade, it stays on version 5.1.4. Is this simply because Chocolatey and App Layering can't work together? The original install goes fine - it is the subsequent change or removal that fails.

I've updated my Microsoft 365 Apps packager for Intune with the PSADT 4.0.6 and some other small changes here: https://github.com/aaronparker/m365apps

✋🏻 Hey, I need testers - particularly on various Windows 11 versions (and maybe Windows 10 less then 22H2). What's breaking / not working etc. Here's a new version of my

Remove-AppxApps.ps1

script that simplifies things considerably - this is intended to run on physical (i.e. via Autopilot) and on gold images: https://gist.github.com/aaronparker/ffccc44498a4a33d64721e075c6441c1. Don't run on an existing physical device because it will likely remove apps that users are actively using. Works on Windows 11 and Windows 10. This will be part of the next release of this project: https://stealthpuppy.com/image-customise/

Hi folks! I was tasked to try to move one of my Citrix Master Image Build pipelines, from on-premises MDT to Azure Packer. I already have successfully running Citrix Master Image Build Pipelines in MDT and AzureDevOps Packer. But this time I'm tasked to also move an app, where the setup file doesn't have a silent switch. In MDT I use AutoIt, to click through such setup, which works very well, given that MDT runs an interactive Windows session. But my tries with apps without silent switch through AutoIt in a Packer run failed so far. Does anybody know, if this is possible, or is there an alternative? Normally I have like only one such app per customer, but this would kill my migration from MDT to Packer, because well, I would need all apps or project won't complete.

Has anyone automated the process of building basic availability groups to host the cvad and pvs databases?