Filename: PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004.zip
For: Provisioning Services 7.1. For additional information, including operating system requirements, see Citrix Product Documentation.
Replaces: PVS710TargetDeviceWX64001, PVS710TargetDeviceWX64002, CPVS71003
Date: June, 2015
Languages supported: English (US), Japanese (JA), Simplified Chinese (SC)
Readme version: 1.01

Readme Revision History

Important Note(s)

• This is a full release of the Target Device component of Provisioning Services 7.1. You can use it to perform a clean installation of the component as well as to upgrade an existing installation of the component.

• Caution! This release may require you to edit the registry. Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Where to Find Documentation

This document describes the issue(s) resolved by this release and includes installation instructions. For additional product information, including supported operating systems and system requirements, see Citrix Product Documentation.

New Fixes in This Release

1. Attempts to create a VHD by running p2pvs disk e:\vhd c: at the command line creates a RAW unpartitioned disk that is not bootable.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004][#LC0327]

2. The Windows Server 2008 R2 target device experiences a fatal exception with error code 0x4E appearing on a blue screen.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004][#LC0350]

3. After enabling the target device log, BNDevice.exe fails.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004][#LC2058]

4. If a server becomes unavailable, IO reconnect requests are sent to the unavailable server only and not to other servers in a high availablity configuration.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004][#LC2146]

5. On a target device in Microsoft Hyper-V, switching from a legacy to a synthetic network adapter does not occur when the operating system is Italian.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004][#LC2379]

6. After building a Personal vDisk (PVD) and then installing Provisioning Services, when you use the XenDesktop Setup wizard to create a PVD-enabled pool, some VMs start and the PVD software initializes the write-cache drive as PVD. A write-cache is not created for Provisioning Services.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004][#LC2497]

7. The host name on VMware ESX target devices is set to the MAC address after restarting.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64004][#LC2816]

Fixes from Replaced Hotfixes

1. The Provisioning Server's Printer Management feature might fail to remove network printers, while successfully removing local printers.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64001][#LA3170]

2. When setting the write cache to target device RAM, the storage performance of PVS streamed target devices on XenServer can be poor.

   To enable the fix, you must create the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\BNIStack\Parameters
   Name: WcRamConfiguration
   Type: DWORD
   Value: 1

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64001][#LA4324]

3. The Provisioning Server's Printer Management feature might display all the target devices’ printers instead of displaying the specified local printers.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64001][#LA5266]

4. The Cache on device RAM with overflow on hard disk setting might fail to obtain the Operating System's memory pool settings for used page. As a result, the cache operation might fail to work as expected.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64001][#LA5290]

5. PVS target devices might experience a fatal exception, displaying a blue screen, on CFsDep2.sys.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64002][#LA5355]

6. This is an enhancement to facilitate NIC teaming with the latest Broadcom NICs used in HP Moonshot systems.

   [From PVS710TargetDeviceWX64002][#LA5950]

7. If the vDisk and associated files are exported and imported from a store in Farm A to a store in Farm B, the Stream Process (StreamProcess.exe) might query the UNC path of Farm A instead of Farm B while starting a target device from the vDisk in Farm B. As a result, the target device might start slowly.

   [From CPVS71003][#LA4930]

8. Connection attempts from the target device to a virtual hard disk (VHD), where the icon in the notification area has a red "X" on it, might fail with the following error message: "Bnistack failed to load due to NIC Miniport is not ready."

   [From CPVS71003][#LC0071]

9. The Provisioning Services server might fail to capture the newly assigned machine account Active Directory password if the initial password change request to the domain server times out. As a result, targets fail to be able to log on to the domain.

   [From CPVS71003][#LC0078]

Installing and Uninstalling this Release

For information about installing this release, see Knowledge Center article CTX135746. For additional information about installing and configuring the Target Device, see Preparing a Master Target Device for Imaging on the Citrix Product Documentation site.

Target Device Binaries

Note: This information is provided only for customers who are upgrading the Target Device manually. If you are performing a manual upgrade, replace the following files with their namesakes included in this package: