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Citrix Systems, Inc.™

Citrix Provisioning Services 6.0

Release Notes

September, 2011

Rev. 1.0

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About These Release Notes

Purpose

The purpose of these Release Notes is to identify new product features and enhancements, as well as any known or fixed issues. These Release Notes may also contain any last minute information that was not included in the product documentation. The on-line edition of these notes, including localized versions, takes precedence over the initial rev 1.0 and will be updated as new issues are found or resolved.

Audience

This document is written for Provisioning Services Administrators who are responsible

for installing, configuring and using Provisioning Services software.

Organization

This Release Notes document includes the following sections:

New in this Release ....................................................................................................... 4

Fixed in this Release ..................................................................................................... 5

Hotfixes in this Release .............................................................................................. 10

Known Issues and Limitations ................................................................................... 14

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New in this Release

Integrated vDisk Versioning

Automated vDisk Updating

Support for Replicated vDisk Storage

XenDesktop and Streamed VM Setup Wizards

Please see product documentation for the detailed description of the new features.

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Fixed in this Release This section details issues fixed in this release.

BUG0018287 Change the "Include local HD as Boot Device" option to be less

confusing. Label of the checkbox changed to “List local hard disk in boot menu”.

BUG0018315 Drive letter on Local HDD of target device(none master) can't be changed

to anything other than C:\

BUG0018389 PVS 5.6 introduced the ability to generate a dedicated dump file for NT6

based OS. Device Optimizer now leaves the "Disable Bug Check Memory Dump" option

unchecked when run on NT6 OS.

BUG0018408 Imaging wizard miscalculates capacity size.

BUG0018432 Console user is unable to login to console intermittently if server name

used instead of its IP address.

BUG0018453 target device hangs when heavy network traffic is going to the client

(multiple videos running at once)

BUG0018474 Enable HA by default. Remove option from vDisk File Properties

BUG0018480 Handle GetAuthorizationGroups exception

BUG0018483 When deleting a CA from ForestA, it actually deleted the CA in ForestB.

BUG0018484 When adding user from another Forest and who belong to Local Domain

Group, this user can't login to PVS console.

BUG0018488 Targets will not failover when back end storage goes offline and the

stream process is still running.

BUG0018516 If there is no license or license rejection, instead of displaying the

remaining time in minutes display it in hrs:mins format.

BUG0018542 Client gets a "license acquired" message when there is no License server

and no License granted

BUG0018544 Device gives a "Windows Boot Manager" Error when booted off the vdisk

build from Imaging wizard. Resolved incorrectly handled very long paths to copy disk

signature properly.

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BUG0018549 Automatic rebalance should be disabled by default.

BUG0018558 BDM boot intermittently fails but automatic reboot action allows device to

boot successfully on second attempt.

BUG0018656 Manage MAK Activations gives an IPC error when VAMT errors out

because it cannot connect to the target.

BUG0018691 Update and convert procedure for imaging a XenServer workload.

BUG0018724 Set Partition offset and block size before disk is prepared with Imaging

Wizard/XenConvert

BUG0018743 Cache Domain Controller info. PVS will be able to manage newly created

AD computer accounts before they have been replicated to other domain controllers.

BUG0018744 Personality.ini file showing incorrect vDisk information.

BUG0018775 Move the Load Balancing out of vDisk Properties

BUG0019089 Console does not auto-refresh in some obvious cases, giving the user

misleading feedback about the success/failure of actions

BUG0019142 AGEE is incompatible with PVS

BUG0019318 Daylight savings clock changes cause GPOs not to be executed.

BUG0019349 PVS 5.1 console connection works with IP only when connecting from

windows XP workstation

BUG0019441 Use ChangePassword instead of SetPassword when modifying an AD

account

BUG0019514 After mount or unmount a vdisk, and then closing the console, MMC

displays an error

BUG0019615 Support multiple NIC teams on target Device to separate streaming and

ICA traffic.

BUG0020302 Advise customers on how to lock down Provisioning Server access

control (XenDesktop CPR 199285)

BUG0021216 Error "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary

domain failed" happens on x64 PVS target machines.

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BUG0024895 Add support for Xsigo/Melanox drivers to Installer and bindcfg.exe

BUG0025158 Database error with PVS 5.6 SP1 using German SQL server, Date format

causes console to crash.

BUG0025233 The silent configuration wizard does not copy user entered values to the

bootstrap file

BUG0025350 ConfigWizard should report correct errors and error out the process when

it fails to set "Database" and "Server" registries.

BUG0025372 Uninstalling PVS does not remove bootptab-editor-help.chm.

BUG0025575 PVS XD 5 PowerShell command SimplePvsADAccount fails when the

short domain name is differnt from the Netbios name, FQDN throws an exception

BUG0026333 Simplify the section for KMS licensing according to customer feedback.

BUG0027152 Setup tool Crashes with "[SCVMM] Objet refrence not set to an instance

of the object" error if the SCVMM cluster doesn't have any Host in it.

BUG0027182 Setup Tool Wizard crashes with Error "The VM Clone operation did not

complete" while Host in VMware cluster is in Maintenance mode.

BUG0027226 If user picks XenServer and enters the IP address of the DDC in the

Hypervisor Connection screen of the Streamed VM Wizard, Console returns a

misleading error 'Method Not Allowed'.

BUG0027265 Automatically detect VMXNET3 and install proper filter driver in VMWare

Master Target Device VMs.

BUG0027266 When the user tries to set KMS and Shared mode before a vdisk is build,

it results in a vDisk lock.

BUG0027336 XenConvert fails to set short name of a converted file.

BUG0027421 A site with no servers causes the wizard to crash the console

BUG0027435 Remove the Domain Controllers default container from create and import

AD accounts screens in wizard

BUG0027641 G11N: SC: String “XenDesktop Controller” is truncated on Simplified

Chinese OS.

BUG0027764 XD admin list on existing catalog selection screen fails to scroll

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BUG0027829 Running the XenDesktop SW, user is unable to browse a file on a

network share to import devices when using a Remote PVS console.

BUG0027842 XenDesktop SW should force Full & Machine admins and only allow

selecting Assignment administrators when creating XD catalogs

BUG0027843 Importing existing AD accounts should give the user the right error

message in the case when the user tries to import a file with incorrect format.

BUG0027913 Multi NIC scenarios for both wizards are inconsistent across hypervisors.

BUG0027947 Assignment Admin, ReadOnly Admin and HelpDesk Admin should not be

allowed to create a catalog or add VMs to an Existing catalog while running XDSW.

BUG0027998 Setup Wizard list incorrect XD admins on a Catalog selection page

BUG0028070 XDSW and VM-streamed Wizard allow the use the a mounted or disabled

vDisk

BUG0028165 If the name of the template is too long, we are not able to scroll it until the

end on page3 of XD Setup Wizard.

BUG0028265 Any template that is created by using an existing template or VHD in

SCVMM server that has no library server defined, does not show up while browsing in

XDSW

BUG0028294 G11N: JA/FR: Devices cannot be deployed on PVS, DDC and AD when

using SCVMM as Hypervisor.

BUG0028584 XD Setup Wizard does not support SCVMM/Hyper-V SP1 Dynamic

Memory

BUG0028656 Detection of maintenance mode in ESX clusters is inconsistent.

BUG0028937 The 128MB lower memory limit is only enforced when the select template

has 128MB or greater.

BUG0029168 Processor mismatch with template and VM provisioned in SCVMM

BUG0029169 Console crashes with Streamed VM Wizard after user logs into XS when

PVs server is in a WORKGROUP environment.

BUG0030079 failure to retrieve templates when using the SCVMM delegated admin in

Setup Tool Wizard

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BUG0032056 XDSW: the "Create Active Directory account" tab should be resizeable for

the Domain and OU name are longer than the current tab.

BUG0032061 KMSPrep & KMSReset not compatible with stand-alone console.

BUG0032098 The wizard does not detect differences in the upper range dynamic

memory settings on SCVMM SP1 templates.

BUG0032192 XDSW fails to configure the network for XS VMs when the XD host record

specifies a default network.

BUG0032193 SCVMM Clusters with multiple networks fail to assign the network

specified in the XD host record

BUG0032197 After adding another administrator to a catalog from DDC, XDSW will not

show admin groups in the catalog page, but is still usable.

BUG0032207 XDSW: When import AD accounts, it shows account available from the

parent's OU and it sub OU.

BUG0032347 The XD SW will fail to complete if you try to create a VM with reduced

memory from the wizard, using a template which is created using the pre-defined

"Windows Template" in XenServer

BUG0032589 The wizard fails to enumerate templates when the ESX host has 1 more

templates connected to a distributed vSwitch

BUG0034875 Introduce an option to clean up the local drive of thin-client (dedicated for

PVS cache) on each reboot of target device.

BUG0034938 XD Setup Wizard takes a long time to create VMs in Hyper-V

environment.

BUG0047892 Creating Targets using the XD Setup Wizard assigned the wrong VLANs

to the NIcs - Similar to BUG0031799 but using VMWare ESX hypervisor

BUG0048918 TFTP listens on all IPs and tftpcpl crashes if the network tab is selected.

BUG0157636 Provide better warning to users/customers that you can't use the master

device machine name as a target device name.

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Hotfixes in this Release

BUG0025575 – PVS/XenDesktop 5 powershell command SimplePvsADAccount fails

when the short domain name is differnt from the Netbios name, FQDN throws an

exception

Hotfix CPVS56SP1E036 - For Crix Provisioning Services 5.6 Service Pack 1

BUG-47497: Target devices get "The trust relationship between this workstation and

the primary domain failed" error when booting up.

BUG-34033: HA failover caused by storage outage, targets may be redirected to the

same server that experiences the storage outage thus the failover cannot complete.

BUG-34031: Streamprocess cannot recover from a storage-related IO failure, causing

target to reconnect.

BUG-18388: Stream.log not rotating and exceeding configured limit size.

BUG-46839: When many targets boot together or HA failover, StreamProcess

randomly reports "AcquireLock failed" error and, in the case of booting, some devices

hang at the string "Vdisk is locked".

It also includes fix to the following issues:

BUG-25404: If an automatic update occurs during a period when database is in offline

mode; the automatic update will fail and will not run on the following scheduled

period.

TR-10019: Server side cache is not properly initialized when a client is rebooted, this

hotfix will truncate the server side cache file for any client that is rebooted.

CTX130273

Hotfix CPVS56SP1E040 - For Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 Service Pack 1

This hotfix addresses the following issue reported against Citrix Provisioning Services

5.6 Service Pack 1 release:

BUG-28678: When PVS Console timeout happens while displaying targets, it crashes

after reporting the timeout error.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130273


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It also includes fix to the following issues:

BG-18449: The silent configuration wizard corrupts the bootstrap which leads to the

console crashing when configure bootstrap is used.

BG-25161: The Provisioning Services Console cannot handle NULL values for login

polling timeout and general timeout in the bootstrap.

TR-9985: Device Administrator cannot open Device Properties for an Active Device.

TR-10022: When Provisioning Services Console is started, the “Connect to Farm”

dialog should default to the last server connected.

TR-10023: If a PVS server suffers an unrecoverable error and becomes "Offline", that

server can never be deleted from a site.

CTX130275


BG-27261: Device Administrators and Device Operators cannot boot target devices by

using Wake On LAN from Provisioning Services Console.

BG-18445: Server Timeout error occurs when validating store paths on a PVS server

with multiple NICs in separate subnets. The issue also occurs when activating target

devices that use MAK volume licensing. This occurs because the server uses a non-

PVS NIC to send the IPC messages.

BG-25702: User unable to select own domain in PVS console when creating a machine

account.

CTX129474

Hotfix CPVS56SP1E024 - For Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 and 5.6 Service Pack 1

BG-29129 Windows 2003 Server targets Blue Screen (Stop 0x8E) during user logoff

CTX129471



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Hotfix CPVS56SP1E029 - For Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1

Bugs Fixed:

BUG0025161: The console cannot handle NULL values for login polling timeout and

general timeout in the bootstrap. Assign default values for polling timeout and general

timeout if the value is not valid in the bootstrap file

BUG0027712: Importing computer account fails only when using Streamed Virtual

Machine Setup Wizard. The AD name validation on import was incorrectly checking the

DDC, which would always fail when running as Streamed VM wizard type.

BUG0028617: ESX clusters in which all servers do not have access to the shared

storage selected in the XD host record causes the wizard to fail. This condition can

occur with specific configurations on any hypervisor. Documentation change: "Note: If

the selected template is on shared storage, all hypervisor hosts of the cluster require

access to that storage."

BUG0028265 removed SCVMM known issue from doc: "Any template that is created by

using an existing template or VHD in SCVMM server that has no library server defined

does not appear in the template selection list."

BUG0028663: XenServer templates added new property ('Nics') when filtering the list of

templates.

BUG0028675: Templates with no NICs are not displayed

BUG0028942: A ESX template with a static MAC address causes the wizard to

endlessly create VMs all with the same MAC.

BUG0028724: Can't decrease amount of RAM of a VM created by XDSW.

BUG0028866: Run XDSW and select a SCVMM template with customization enabled, &

it will cause the wizard to fail.

BUG0028295: PowerShell escape sequences are not allowed in SCVMM template

names or properties. This will result in a “Cannot invoke pipeline” error.

BUG0031795: XDSW fails to configure the network for XS VMs when the XD host record

specifies a default network

BUG0032055: SCVMM Clusters with multiple networks fail to assign the network

specified in the XD host record

BUG0032356: The wizard fails to enumerate templates when the ESX host has 1 more


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templates connected to a distributed vSwitch

BUG0032104: After adding another administrator to a catalog from DDC, XDSW will not

show admin groups in the catalog page, but it is still usable.

BUG0032117: Wizard fails to set SCVMM vCPUs to 3

BUG0030079: failure to retrieve templates when using the scvmm delegated admin in

setup tool wizard

CTX129381


BG-27202: Citrix Provisioning Services Upgrade Wizard fails to upgrade Windows 7

vDisk to PVS 5.6 SP1.

CTX129123




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Known Issues and Limitations This section lists and describes known issues and limitations that apply to this

Provisioning Services release.

General

BUG0156929

Potential performance regression during boot.

If a PVS server has two or more network interfaces on the same subnet,

there may be a delay of up to 30 seconds before the boot starts. The

issue will be addressed in a future release or hotfix.

XenDesktop Setup Wizard

BUG0030079

Failure to retrieve templates when using the SCVMM delegated admin in setup

tool wizard. The account needs the appropriate permissions in order to access

the remote SCVMM machine.

BUG0028656

Detection of maintenance mode in ESX clusters is inconsistent

The problem is that the template is hosted on the server in maintenance mode.

vCenter wont clone the template in this condition.

BUG0033836

The wizard fails to create VMs on SCVMM clusters with missing placement

paths.

You get the following error: “ERROR: [DC1 Vol1] cannot validate argument on

parameter 'path'. The number of characters (0) in the argument is too small.

Specify an argument whose length is greater than or equal to "1" and try the

command again.”

Workaround is to specify placement path(s) for the cluster so they show up when

you look at the properties of a node in the cluster.

BUG0027916

SCVMM templates with special characters in the template name cannot be found

by the XenDesktop/VM setup wizards.

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Image Update Service

BUG0046692

Warn the User if a task is associated with a deleted vDisk.

In case a user creates an update Task and associates a Managed vDisk with it,

and then deletes the vDisk, it will be impossible to run this task again.

BUG0034765

Connection to SCVMM server will fail when hostname is entered in the form of

an IP address

BUG0253639

Image Update Management fails to add the Update VM under Managed vdisk

wizard, if the VM is located on an ESX server with multiple Datacenters.

BUG0253889

If an Image update cycle fails, the Device status is incorrect.

The workaround is to manually boot and shut down the machine.

BUG0253891

Creating an Update VM in SCVMM with dynamic MAC allocation sets MAC to

00-00-00-00-00. It cannot be added as an Update VM in the Managed Vdisk

Wizard.

To work around this issue, the Update VM must be assigned a static MAC

address or must be booted once to have automatically acquired a valid MAC

address.

BUG0253630

Image update management task fails to run as a Domain User or Network

Service account.

The workaround is to use the httpcfg.exe tool so that the registration of the

Image Update Service URL with the HTTPS subsystem can be done manually.

Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx

For Windows Server 2003: httpcfg.exe set urlacl /u http://localhost:8000/Xip

/a D:(A;;GX;;;usersid)

where usersid is the SID of the user the soap service is running under. To

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx

http://localhost:8000/Xip

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determine the user’s SID, download the PsGetSid tool from Windows Sysinternals at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897417

For Windows Server 2008 R2: Netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8000/Xip

user=domain\user

Restart the SOAP server after changes are made.

BUG0254180

Configure Image Update Management and if it fails to run the First Task with an

error reported in the Event Viewer "Task not loaded", then restarting the Soap

Service should fix it.

Boot Device Manager (BDM)

The BDM HDD option is not meant to be run on your PVS Server. Doing so may render

your system unusable. To use the HDD option in BDM, you need to physically copy

“BDM.exe” to your Target Device(s) as running it will modify the MBR of the HDD

rendering it useless.

BUG0018558

BDM boot intermittently fails, but automatic reboot action allows device

to boot successfully on 2nd attempt. This is a VMware issue that we can

neither fix nor work around. See CTX127558 article for details.

Console

BUG0035340

Citrix Host SnapIn is not localized in the Japanese version.

BUG0252386

When restarting the Stream Service from a console with several PVS servers

in a farm, the Stream Service on one server may fail to restart. The

workaround is to manually restart the service.

BUG0252755

Mounting a vDisk from a server that is not configured to serve the associated

store fails, while appearing to succeed.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897417

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BUG0252991

Crash dump change in the target optimizer and its possible impact.

In this release the device optimizer no longer disables system crash dumps on

NT6 or above as we now support dedicated dump files which allow users to

capture complete memory dumps when BSODs occur while streaming. This

change may impact XD environments that utilize cache on client HD as the

dedicated dump file (which is the size of the memory for the device) will also be

placed on the cache disk before the vDisk cache file is created which may lead

to the product falling back to server side cache and poor performance.

Example: Win7 VM, 1GB Memory, 3GB cache disk ... will fall back to server

side cache ... 1024 page file + 1024 dedicated dump file = not enough space

for vDisk cache file.

BUG0253074

After unmounting a vDisk from the PVS Console, the PVS server's event

viewer is showing a system error 'The device 'Citrix Virtual Hard Disk'

disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.'

Licensing

Please view the Citrix Licensing Information on:


and http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX117378

Target Device - Linux

Linux target devices are no longer supported in this release.



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Restoring an Image to a Hard Drive

When restoring a pre-Vista OS Image to a Hard Drive that has Vista installed, extra

steps are necessary post restoration. After restoration, the drive will need to be booted

from a pre-Vista OS CD into the recovery Console to fix the Master Boot Record (MBR).

Support for Replicated Disk Storage

BUG0253144

Occasionally, server status is not updated as expected when a new PVS

server is added to farm. Workaround is to restart the Stream Service on

the newly added server.

Active Directory

BUG0018409

When PVS is installed in W2K8R2, users may experience problems with trust

relationships not seen on other platforms. For example, if PVS is running in

ForestA and a PVS administrator from ForestB tries to log into the PVS console,

there may be errors indicating some type of trust failure (failure to connect to the

server, or failure to authorize the user).

Here are some possible workarounds:

- Open a two-way trust between ForestA & ForestB. While this may not be a

long-term solution, it is a useful diagnostic to make sure a more permanent

solution would work.

- Run the Config Wizard as a domain admin instead of a domain user.

- Turn off UAC on the W2K8R2 machine running the PVS server.

BUG0254030

IU fails to delete vdisk in IU's vDisk pool when created in a different Domain.

Workaround: right click on the vdisk >Active Directory >Delete Machine Account.

Versioning

BUG0253651

If importing a merged base version as a new vDisk fails, you must

remove the .#.vhd extension to only .vhd before importing.

Upgrade Wizard

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BUG0253747

The Upgrade Wizard will use the store path to find vDisks for update. If

multiple servers have a local version of the vDisk, they will not all be

updated. (Local storage HA was not formally supported prior to this

release).

Imaging Wizard

BUG0254150

Imaging Wizard fails to image within a cross domain environment when

IU service is enabled on server.

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