Citrix Provisioning Services can be used to automate the creation of virtual desktops and XenApp servers using the XenDesktop Setup Wizard. This article goes through the process of creating a VM template that Provisioning Services can use to create VM's from. Using XenDesktop Setup Wizard to create multiple VM's and create a delivery group on XenDesktop. Log on to the VMware vSphere Web Client. Click on VMs and Templates. Select the master VM image used to create the Provisio

Citrix Provisioning Services Target Device software allows an operating system like Windows to network boot from a standard image shared between multiple virtual or physical machines. The following article goes through the steps of preparing a Windows 10 x64 virtual machine to network boot from Provisioning Services including installing Provisioning Services Target Device software, using the Imaging Wizard to create a vDisk, optimize the vDisk, configuring Provisioning Servic

This article goes through the steps of installing Citrix Provisioning Services 7.9, creating a farm and joining a second server to the existing farm. Provisioning Services allows multiple machines to be booted from a single image over the network using PXE boot and Citrix's own disk streaming technology. Insert the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.9 media, once the autorun starts click on Console Installation to install the management console. Click Install. Click Next. Accept

To access published applications and/or desktops virtual desktops and XenApp session servers need to be deployed into a machine catalog and added to a delivery group. The Machine catalog is just a collection of VM's or physical computers that have the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent installed and are available for use by users. The Delivery Group provides access to published desktops and/or applications; computers available in one or more machine catalogs are added to the deliv

To allow users to log on to virtual desktops and/or servers the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) needs to be installed on each machine that will except user sessions. This article goes through the steps of installing the VDA on a Windows 7 virtual desktop. Insert the Citrix XenDesktop 7.9 media kit in the DVD-Drive of the virtual desktop Click on Start for XenDesktop. Click on Virtual Delivery Agent for Windows Desktop OS under Prepare Machines and Images. Select Create a