Citrix Provisioning Service 6.1 Target Device Hotfix Installation Guide
Summary
This article contains instructions for installing Citrix Provisioning Service 6.1 Target Device hotfixes.
Background
Previously hotfixes for Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1 were delivered as loose binaries and that resulted in overhead for customers and required many manual steps to track and deploy the hotfixes correctly. To improve the customer experience, the hotfixes will now be provided as an installation package instead. The advantages of having an installer include:
- Reducing manual tasks for deploying hotfix
- Tracking what hotfixes are installed on the local machine
Procedures
Important Note: Target Device hotfixes can be deployed only on the Master Target Device. You can install Target Device hotfix on a device that has not been imaged to a vDisk as a fresh installation, or on a device that has been imaged to a vDisk as an upgrade installation.
For fresh installations, see eDocs, the Citrix product documentation library.
For upgrade installation, complete the following steps:
Uninstalling Provisioning Services from the Original Hard Drive on Master Target Device
- Start from the vDisk in Private or Shared Image Mode.
- Right-click My Computer, and select Manage. The Computer Management window appears.
- Under Storage, click Disk Management.
- Get the drive letter of the local hard disk (Disk 0) from where the vDisk was created. Ensure the partition is Active.
- Run the Image Builder utility on the target device. The utility is located at \Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning Services\BNImage.exe
- Under Destination Drive, specify the drive letter of the local hard disk from Step 4.
- Click Build to start vDisk image cloning to the local hard disk on the Master Target Device, then restart.
- Configure the Master Target Device to start from local hard drive.
- On the Master Target Device, uninstall Provisioning Services from ARP.
Uninstalling Provisioning Services from a Newly created Hard Drive on a Master Target Device
- Start from the vDisk in Private or Shared Image Mode.
- Right click My Computer and select Manage. The Computer Management window appears.
- Under Storage, click Disk Management.
- Create a new primary partition as the first partition, assign a drive letter, format, and mark it as Active.
- Delete the boot.ini file from the root of the vDisk.
- Run the Image Builder utility on the target device. The utility is located at \Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning Services\BNImage.exe
- Under Destination Drive, specify the drive letter of the local hard disk from Step 4.
- Click Build to start vDisk image cloning to the local hard disk on the Master Target Device, then restart.
- Configure the Master Target Device to start from local hard drive.
- On the Master Target Device, uninstall Provisioning Services from ARP.
Installing a Target Device Hotfix and Imaging New vDisk
- From the Provisioning Services Console, delete the Master Target Device.
- On the Master Target Device, run the Provisioning Services Device installer included in the hotfix.
- After the image is created but before restarting the device, check the Device properties on the Console to ensure the device is set to start fromHard Disk.
- Restart the device and configure it to start from local hard drive then perform a PXE boot of the device. This will cause the system to automatically start running Citrix Converter to finalize VDisk imaging.
- On the Console, modify the Device properties to force the device to start from vDisk.
- Restart the Master Target Device and ensure that the new vDisk is running without issue.
- On the Console, associate the new vDisk with other Target Devices if necessary.
