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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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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

Hotfix CPVS56SP1E020 - For Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 Service Pack 1

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 nonPVS 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

Hotfix CPVS56SP1E022 - For Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 Service Pack 1 BG-27202: Citrix Provisioning Services Upgrade Wizard fails to upgrade Windows 7 vDisk to PVS 5.6 SP1. CTX129123 Hotfix CPVS56SP1E014 - For Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 Service Pack 1

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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

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determine the users 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. Mounting a vDisk from a server that is not configured to serve the associated store fails, while appearing to succeed.

BUG0252755

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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: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX117529 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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