Interesting that PVS 2503 documentation came out, but no software.

It is there now. https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/current-release

Doh my bad.

Looks like 2402LTSR CU2 supports server 2025 now, for both Server side and Target Device Side. https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/2402-ltsr/system-requirements I also noticed they removed some verbiage around the SQL version support. However, https://support.citrix.com/s/article/CTX114501-supported-databases-for-virtual-apps-and-desktops-and-citrix-provisioning-pvs?language=en_US still shows 2402LTSR for PVS supports SQL Server 2017, 2019, 2022.

Been a long time since i last dropped a Vdisk on a Device collection (I want to swap out the existing Vdisk assigned to all target devices in the collection to a new Vdisk ) i am 99% certain it doesnt impact powered on target devices in the collection and they will continue to work and pick up the new vdisk at next reboot but my arse is twitching a little so best make sure

You know your week's going to be rough when you're troubleshooting a boot issue on a new image and realize that you forgot to install the PVS target device software...

Hello, what's the best way to update VMWARE Tools on a PVS Image ? Without rebuilding all the image. Do you have some tips ? Thanks

Has anyone seen this error after upgrading to 2402 CU2? VDAs are booting without any issue. TFTP is loadbalanced via Netscaler.

Has anyone enabled ReFS deduplication on their PVS servers vhdx volume storage? I know that the block cloning works on our primary server, as it reports more free space than others, but thinking about deduping the other PVS servers as well to more efficiently cache data in RAM.

Does anyone have an idea what could be causing the Virtual Apps and Desktops Setup Wizard wizard to fail but not generate a log? (XenDesktopSetupWizard.log) It only fails when creating BDM machines, PXE works fine. The VM is created without a cache disk (vSphere), but no AD Object and no machine in Studio.

Is there a sizing recommendation for WC Disk? Based on concurrent user count, weekly/daily reboot schedules

Server 2025 master image is blue screening post install if MS April cumulative update. This is PVS 2411 in Azure. Anyone else see this happening?

Does anyone have a writeup about why the WEM agent is being installed with the PVS Server Component? Noticed this on 2411 and 2503.

Avoid PVS Target Device 2402 CU2 No group policies are being applied at all. We first noticed this issue due to a missing time redirection policy. Error in the eventlog is attached. Support cases have been opened and can be referenced: 83282716 83261124 Session Manager "This session will be disconnected due to a policy evaluation error" - Page 2 - XenDesktop 7.x - Citrix Community

Has anyone see this type of behavior with 2402 CU2. Write cache is set to ram with overflow to disk. On master image with standard image set it works fine but on deployed VDA cache is redirected to server …. Thanks!

So what's busted in PVS 2503?

PVS 2503 | Missing SPN Has anyone else encountered the problem that with PVS 2503 the Configuration Wizard is constantly trying to delete and attempting to create an SPN in the context of the user running the wizard and failing due to lack of permissions? Services are running in the gMSA context, SPN was created in advance for the gMSA account. Services can be started manually in the context of the gMSA account after the wizard has been canceled. Log: [152331:022] Error: DsWriteAccountSpn(DN) delete existing computer account SPN failed. DsWriteAccountSpn(DN) delete existing computer account SPN failed. Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. (0x2098) [152331:085] Error: DsWriteAccountSpn(DN) failed. DsWriteAccountSpn(DN) failed. Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. (0x2098)

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