Installing Citrix Provisioning Services Agent during ConfigMgr OSD deployment

The PVS Agent on a VM is necessary to create the vDisk in Citrix PVS. In this small post I describe the steps to take in order to get this successfully deployed during a ConfigMgr OSD TS.

Create a folder containing the following information. Also check the correct processor architecture (x86/x64). The the PVS_Device.exe (or PVS_Device_x64.exe) is copied from the PVS media/ISO.

The .sys files are copied from a machine where the PVS agent is already installed on the following location: c:\Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning Services\drivers


The install.cmd executes and logs the following:

set currentdir=%~dp0

"%currentdir%PVS_Device.exe" /S /v/qn" ALLUSERS=TRUE REBOOT=SUPPRESS /l* %WINDIR%\Temp\CitrixPVSDeviceTarget.log"

copy "%currentdir%CFsDep2.sys" %Windir%\System32\Drivers /y
copy "%currentdir%bnistack6.sys" %Windir%\System32\Drivers /y
copy "%currentdir%CNicTeam.sys" %Windir%\System32\Drivers /y
copy "%currentdir%CVhdMp.sys" %Windir%\System32\Drivers /y


Hope this helps some of you.

Cheers, Niels

Installing Citrix XenDesktop VDA Agent in ConfigMgr 2012 TS

Recently I have been struggling a little to get the XenDesktop VDA agent installed correctly during a ConfigMgr OSD deployment. I ended up with the following solution:

Create a folder (x86 and/or x64) and copy the following folders from the Citrix installation media. The XenDesktop installation will look for additional information in the other folders, so they are needed as well. Based on the installation parameters even more folders could be necessary.

Additional create a install.cmd with the following parameters:

set currentdir=%~dp0

SET OPTIONS=

SET OPTIONS=/QUIET

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /NOREBOOT

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /MASTERIMAGE

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /COMPONENTS VDA

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /CONTROLLERS "controller1,controller2"

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /OPTIMIZE

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /ENABLE_REMOTE_ASSISTANCE

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /ENABLE_REAL_TIME_TRANSPORT

SET OPTIONS=%OPTIONS% /ENABLE_HDX_PORTS

if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="AMD64" PUSHD "x64\XenDesktop Setup"

if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="x86" PUSHD "x86\XenDesktop Setup"

START /WAIT XenDesktopVDASetup.exe %OPTIONS%

This will install the VDA client with the correct parameters.

Hope this will help you out.

In the next blog I will add information on how to install the Citrix Provisioning Services Agent Software, as this is combined in many installations when deploying a VDI solution.

Cheers, Niels