Category: Test Lab

In October 2014, Citrix released version 7.6 of both XenApp and Provisioning Services. A few weeks after the release, I created a 8 part step-by-step series on how to install and configure Citrix XenApp 7.6. If you missed it you can see it here >> Citrix XenApp 7.6 Install Guide.

At the time I promised that I would make a similar guide for the installation and configuration of Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6. Well here it is….

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Introduction” →

This is final article in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. Here we will be testing the published applications to ensure that our environment is working as planned.

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 13: Testing Published Applications” →

This is part 12 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we be creating a XenApp 7.6 Delivery Group which will publish the applications that are running on our PVS target devices.

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 12: Creating a Delivery Group” →

This is part 11 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we be creating a XenApp 7.6 machine catalog from a Citrix PVS collection.

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 11: Creating a PVS-Enabled Machine Catalog” →

This is part 10 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we learn how to create new target devices by cloning or templating an existing PVS target device VM.

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 10: Creating new PVS Target Devices” →

This is part 9 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we be making the final changes to the image in order to convert it into Share Mode to be used in production. We will also be repurposing the capture VM into a standard target device.

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 9: Preparing for Production use” →

This is part 8 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we install the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) on the newly captured image.

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 8: Installing Virtual Delivery Agent on the PVS Image” →

This is part 7 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we be capturing the VM we have been working on so that we can create a new PVS image.

Read More “Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 7: Capturing the PVS Image” →