Hello, someone migrated PVS VDA and Master from VMWARE to Xen Server ? One of our customer wanted to migrate from vmware to xen but test XenServer before migrating definitively so I thin inplace upgrade is not the best choice as Citrix recommanded to not start master image on vmware after converting to xen. I would better clone the existing vDisk to Xen then sysprep it to use the existing master in vmware and the cloned master in Xen to test eveything but I don't know if this is possible. I'm reading the Xen documentation but I would have some admin experience. Thanks

Any advice for updating from 1912 CU0 to 2402 CU1? My plan is to first update to 1912 CU10, then to 2203 CU6, and finally to 2402 CU1. I’m not sure if the target devices will survive two major upgrades, so I’m considering booting all VDAs from the corresponding major release beforehand.

anyone use the SNOW inventory agent on a PVS image ? any special prep steps/command line arguments ? it mentions a starup/shutdown script in this article i found https://docs-snow.flexera.com/other-snow-products/snow-inventory-agents-and-oracle-scan[…]ndows/using-the-agent-in-a-virtual-desktop-infrastructure/ docs-snow.flexera.com

I'm experiencing an issue where the PVS write cache file is growing excessively, consuming too much space on the drive. Does anyone have suggestions on how to track what is using up space on a PVS write cache drive? I know I can use Process Monitor to identify the cause, but I can't run it all day on my target devices. I found the script below, which I can set up as a scheduled task to trigger when the drive space drops below a certain threshold, but I wanted to see if anyone had other recommendations. # Set threshold (in GB) $thresholdGB = 2 $drive = "D:" $logPath = "\\fileserver\ProcMonLogs\" $procmonPath = "C:\Tools\Procmon.exe" # Update with your actual path # Check free space $freeGB = (Get-PSDrive $drive.TrimEnd(':')).Free / 1GB if ($freeGB -lt $thresholdGB) { $timestamp = Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMdd_HHmmss" $output = "$logPath$($env:COMPUTERNAME)_$timestamp.pml" # Start ProcMon with filter for D: and WriteFile operations, run for 10 minutes Start-Process -FilePath $procmonPath -ArgumentList "/Minimized /Quiet /Backingfile $output /Filter Path BEGINS $drive\ Operation IS WriteFile /Terminate /Runtime 600" }

This PVS server i am looking at has been upgraded over the years from various different LTSR versions and it has SQL 2012 native client and Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL on the box and the current Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL needs updating. Is it ok to remove the older SQL drivers and update Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 to latest version without breaking PVS as these older SQL DB drivers have flagged up in Qualys

Hello Hello 👋, i have a question is it somehow possible to configure the Store URL before first launch? LG Jan

Afternoon Folks! I'm doing a vDisk with Hyper-v, it's a PoC and I can't get the write cache to use the letter D: it always use the E: drive. It works with XenServer. D drive was formatted in the VM in private, I tried a few things. No luck

Anyone affected by this issue in the June patches from Microsoft? https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/june-10-2025-kb5060842-os-build-26100-4349-d7d4793c-bb41-4e4a-bfbd-a0dbdb2f6055 Symptoms The DHCP Server service might intermittently stop responding after installing this security update. This issue affects IP renewal for clients. Next steps We are working on releasing a resolution in the coming days and will provide more information when it is available.

anyone using a GMSA with Citrix PVS ? the documentation on it is a bit lacking. Does it support soap/stream services running under the GMSA ? do you set it manually on the services or do you need to re run the PVS Config wizard ? Can the GMSA be used for the PVS DB connection (Would need to create a SQL login for GMSA and assign perms to PVS DB) i presume the GMSA would need local admin rights on the PVS servers for soap related activity ?

Hi Together.... i missed one link....that i used before... I have a PVS env....all setup correct...new image (Windows Server 2022) and only on this one image the write cache is stored on the server not on the local disk of the worker....i remembered that there is an article exactly for this...with a command for diskpart or something like this

for those of you not using bisf, do you manually delete the rds grace period registry key for non-persistent gold images?

Citrix PVS 2402 and Legacy BIOS device Hello all ! I wonder if the Citrix PVS 2402 can always boot BIOS devices ? I have a customer who run PVS 1912 with several hundred device target. He wants to upgrade to 2402 but don't want to recreate all the target device with UEFI. Does anyone have this type of deployment ? Thank you ! PS : if not, I always can upgrade to 2203 to be in a supported LTSR version

Hi, I have a PVS Server 2402 CU2 and windows 11 (24H2) target devices. The login performance is really bad, logon times for nearly 2 min. If I remove PVS (static VDI) the Login Time is down to 15-30 seconds which would be okay. In the first setup I have two network interfaces - one for streaming PVS and one for the user traffic. Removing this interfaces provided me with a little bit improvement but not enough to have a working environment. The same PVS environment works fine for a w2k16 image. Is there anything special on Win11 I have to take care of? Thanks

Having a strange issue with Azure vm's and pvs (particularly server 2025). Occasionally, the target devices will not get dns information from the vnet, resulting in a lack of domain connectivity. if using 'custom dns on the nic of the target device, it works consistently.

We upgraded our on-prem Provisioning Servers from LTSR 2203 CU5 to CU6 in mid-July (along with the rest of the Citrix infrastructure.) Ever since then, I've noticed the Citrix Licensing console shows zero licenses used when it used to have one used per booted VDA. I added access to port 8083 on the license server from the PVS servers and rebooted all the things, but there are still no licenses used. "Netstat" shows an active TCP connection to port 7279 on the license server, same as it always has and I don't see anything obvious in the logs/events. Anyone else run into that issue, by chance?

Hi all We have about 100 targets booting every morning. Hypervisor is VMware, all targets are deployed via the same template and using PVS Boot ISO. Every morning from 5-10 machines are stuck in boot process, failing to retreive an IP. On the DHCP server all is fine. I did a wireshark and can see, that from the failing machines no DHCP Broadcast is sent. Working machines do a broadcast, get their IP and boot up. Any idea what I can do here?

Anyone know if the new Citrix Provisiong LTSR 2507 works with Bios enabled target devices using BDM iso (Did work fine in 2402 LTSR ) i know support was removed from 2311 onwards and i should be looking to convert to UEFI but just need to plan this upgrade first

Anyone having issues with PVS regarding its license? I’ve updated my test lab to 2507 LTSR. When I run the config wizard its license. But overnight it looses its entitlement.

Bump has anyone tested Citrix provisioning 2507 with bios enabled target devices/vdisks yet ?

How are you guys handling pagefile sizing estimations these days? We've basically built all of our non-persistent PVS VDAs using 20GB pagefiles (vDisk is set to use RAM with overflow to disk), but out new environment will have significantly more RAM per host.

Is this the right place for MCS discussion? The latest round of Windows Update breaks admin shares, MMC tools, etc. between MCS provisioned machines. The issue is due to duplicate Computer SIDs. Both MS and Citrix have pages/articles saying duplicate SIDs don't matter in domain environments, but they clearly didn't think about cloned machines when they made the recent cert/auth changes. All that being said, the way to get unique SIDs is via Sysprep. Of course, Citrix says NO Sysprep for MCS. Sorry, long question to ask, are you doing anything to work around Citrix's no sysprep guidance? Is this a non-issue for you? Here is a link to a post I found: Windows 11 VDI's created with Citrix MCS + KB5064081/KB5065426 : r/Citrix

Anyone installing PVS Target Device in an automation pipeline? (MDT/Packer). doesn't seem like the reboot=suppress is working....it's automatically restarting on the vc_redist.64 install...previously didn't see that with 2402. I was able to just add the vc_redist as a separate install line with the /norestart

fyi, just ran into this bug in PVS 2507. https://support.citrix.com/external/article/695191/citrix-provisioning-services-reports-the.html

awhile back there was conversation on pagefiles for mcs catalogs being placed onto the C drive instead of using the temp disk. We are using ephemeral disks and normally the pagefile was going to the D drive on a d16ds_v5. Moved my image to start building in EastUS2 and created a catalog on the same image we have in Central, and the pagefile is not moving to D.

Anyone come across this "There is a partial mismatch in the machine id event id 6167"? Server 2025, Citrix PVS. Was about to install some new software and booted the image in maint mode. Was not able to login with domain credentials, once in as a local admin I found this in the event log. Have tried to reset and rejoin through PVS console and manually as well, nothing is working....

Looks like Citrix released updates for the recent CUs to address the LAS 24 hour issue.

Has anyone found a way to prevent ms updates from deleting the bootflags reg key? this is getting annoying to fix all the time.

Anyone using gMSA for PVS? We just switched to it, and the first thing I noticed is that we can now no longer validate one of our Stores. I don't think we can just add that gMSA account to the share perms, either.

I am using gMSA for PVS. No problems here.

WEM - Prerequisite of PVS Server ? Hello, I have upgraded my PVS Server to 2507 version and I notice that WEM agent is installed as a prerequisites. Is it normal ? You will find the source in D:\Server\ISSetupPrerequisites\{23DCBFDD-E025-4E8F-BCAB-67946A477652}. No documentation on this. Bug ?