Pre-populate Desktop Director domain field

I have wrote this article way back for DD version 2.x. With XD 7.1  desktop director has interface has been changed. To prepopulate domain field like

 

we have to make changes in LogOn.aspx file and replace “RoyDomainNetBiosName” .

IIS reset is a must post this change

3 steps to enable Auditing on Citrix Provisioning Server

We need to find out the way to track changes made on PVS server or datastore. For that first enable this auditing at farm level

Then check for the changes made by selecting Audit trail. This can be checked at every level.

Now you can see all the changes which are made.

Cannot connect to hypervisor at : No Active hosts found

We were trying to provision XD via PVS 7.1 . Host connection were configured for ESX 5.o update 2. While running XD setup wizard , it was able to establish connection with VC

But it was not able to get the VM template

 

Upon reviewing VC we found that there were few datacenter without any host added to it. We gave XD service account exclusive rights on only respective DC and that way I was able to complete setup wizard.

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