Filename: PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001.zip
For: Provisioning Services 7.6. For additional product information, including operating system requirements, see System requirements for Provisioning Services 7.6 on the Citrix Product Documentation site.
Replaces: None 
Date: September, 2015
Languages supported: English (US), Japanese (JA), Simplified Chinese (SC)
Readme version: 1.02

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Important Note(s)

• The process of upgrading Target Devices is changing: Citrix is taking steps to simplify target upgrades going forward. Subsequent releases of Provisioning Services are expected to be able to upgrade the targets while running in private or maintenance mode. As a result and in preparation of this change, Citrix requires that you manually uninstall previous versions of the Target Device component before you upgrade to this Version 7.6.1.
• 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 Provisioning Services 7.6 on the Citrix Product Documentation site.

New Fixes in This Release

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

   [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC0350]

2. When many targets attempt to reconnect after experiencing network issues, the Stream Process (StreamProcess.exe) might close unexpectedly due to extensive retry attempts to send the packets to the target devices.

   [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC0488]

3. Provisioned virtual machines (VMs) might become unresponsive randomly while shutting down the system.

   [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC1573]

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

   [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC2058]

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

   [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC2146]

6. When creating an image by using the Provisioning Services Imaging Wizard or if the image is in Private image mode, writing to the vDisk can cause a number of retries on the target.

   [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC2218]

7. 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 PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC2379]

8. 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 PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC2497]

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

   [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC2816]

10. The target device might send an error log entry to the write cache disk for every write attempt that fails. As a result, an excess number of error messages appear in the Provisioning Server logs.

    [From PVS760TargetDeviceWX64001][#LC3110]

Fixes from Replaced Hotfixes

No hotfixes were replaced by this release.

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: