Citrix Profile and folder redirection without Microsoft GPO

Sometimes you have a situation where profile and folder redirection can not be done via Windows GPMC. Citrix provide you an option to do so via HDX policy. Citrix have inbuild policy which can used to achieve this. This way we may not require help from AD team and can be managed at our own. I am not going to explain  what all we can apply as part of UPM because everything is available here , here and here.  Profile and redirected folder path must be different .

1. To get this first make sure path is define in this way for each of the folder redirection highlighted in red

Along with each of the folder redirection make sure that “Redirect settings for <folder name>” is selected to “Redirect to the following UNC path”.

2. Make sure policy is applied to the users group

3. For UPM alone path should be set to \\path to folder\#SAMaccountname#or %username% also make sure following should be defined

For rest of the settings and best practices please follow the above mention 3 link .

Gud luck for not using Microsoft GPO :)

Expand vDisk for PVS 7.1 on Hyper-V

There are many article which talks about vDisk expansion on different version of PVS but couldn’t find one for PVS 7.1 using windows 2012R2. Here I am sharing what I have done. Download vhdtool.exe from here. After downloading the tool follow this command as shown below

Now open disk management on any machine and attach the vhd

Once disk is attached it will showup as expanded volume . Select the disk and then choose extend volume.

Select the entire size and then next

Detach the hard disk post expansion

PVS streamed Win2012R2 /Win7 and NIC fail over.

In this video I am trying to show how NIC speed varies for windows 2012R2 vs Win7. As you know , HyperV support PXE on legacy nic at the speed of 100MB. Streaming VM’s over 100MB would be really challenging .  Windows 2012R2 VM does fail over the network from legacy NIC to Synthetic NIC as shown over the video whereas Windows7 only use synthetic nic for VM traffic and streaming continue over legacy network. In this video, I tried copying file to PVS streamed  windows 7 and all the activity happening over synthetic NIC whereas streaming continue over legacy NIC.

PVS streamed machine showing error: Network_Boot_Duplicate_Address

PVS environment has been setup using following post . When windows 2012R2 targets where booted it throws error “NETWORK_BOOT_DUPLICATAE_ADDRESS”

Since we had two DHCP server, we thought this may be the reason why it is having duplicate IP issue. But found CTX132133 explain similar issue with PVS 6.1. Decided to try the work around mention in CTX.

This worked.

Reviewed by me: Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

I had been approached by Packt  Publishing to review the book  “Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0” . The book explain each and every feature of PVS 7.0 which is most exciting product from Citrix. Author Puthiyavan Udayakumar has done justice to the interesting product from Citrix .

 

About me mention in this box by publisher

So what all you are going to learn from the book :

• Install Citrix Provisioning Services
• Configure Citrix Provisioning Services
• Create and manage Vdisks
• Prepare a Master Target device
• Manage farms, stores, sites, and the Provisioning server
• Upgrade farms and Vdisks

You can download the book in various format including PDF and kindle

Post reading please do provide your review at Amazon.

Thanks for reading