Provisioning Server 6 hotfixes

With the new release of PVS 6, there are already a good number of reported hotfixes.  Of particular attention is the last patch listed below which can make PVS stop working all-together.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131204 (PVS Device Hotfix)

• BUG0258446: Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2008 R2 target devices cannot connect to PVS server across different subnets.
• BUG0034058: Bnistack automatically configures the dedicated dump file causing the file to be created on the local drive

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131307 (PVS Server Hotfix)

• BUG0261779: Vdisk merge fails with not enough space error because the free space on remote storage is not correctly detected.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131308 (PVS Device Hotfix)

• BUG0262084: Imaging a vDisk will change the owner of the system32 folder from TrustedInstaller to System on Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2008 R2 vDisk image.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131314 (PVS Server Hotfix)

• BUG-263983: Bootstrap does not process ARP reply packet and uses broadcast MAC address for IO request.
• BUG-263984: When booting target to vdisk, it may randomly hang at “vdisk found”, or “Insert system disk”, or Windows OS file missing or corrupted error.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131616 (PVS Device Hotfix)

• BUG0256332: PVS Target device in Disjoint Domain does not update machine password

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131552 (PVS Device Hotfix)

• BG-268921: Enabling “Intermediate Buffering” for write cache on the target device causes the target to reboot or BSOD with PFN_LIST_CORRUPT error or write cache corruption.
• BG-270108: Group-booting many VM targets, a few of them randomly get hanging at “Write-cache redirected to server” message.
• Replaces: Hotfix CPVS60E001 – For Citrix Provisioning Services 6.0, CTX131204
• BG-0258446: Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2008 R2 target devices cannot connect to PVS server across different subnets.
• BG-0034058: Bnistack automatically configures the dedicated dump file causing the file to be created on the local drive. The dedicated dump file will be disabled by default.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131630 (PVS Server Hotfix)

• BUG0269284: The Notifier.exe process is utilizing 100% CPU on the PVS server.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131613 (PVS Server Hotfix)

• BUG-272099: A few VM targets randomly hang at “Write cache is being redirected to the server” message when booting many targets together.
• Replaces: Hotfix CPVS60E004 – For Citrix Provisioning Services 6.0, CTX131314
• BUG-263983: Bootstrap does not process ARP reply packet and uses broadcast MAC address for IO request.
• BUG-263984: When booting target to vdisk, it may randomly hang at “vdisk found”, or “Insert system disk”, or Windows OS file missing or corrupted error.

Pablo’s Personal recommendations – I suggest that the following patches from the list above are applied for best performance, although, as always your performance may vary:

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131307

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131308

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131616 (Only if you have multiple domains)

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131552

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131630

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131613