What's new

• Cumulative Update 2 (CU2)

  • Fixed issues

• Cumulative Update 1 (CU1)

  • Fixed issues

• 2507.1 LTSR (initial release)

  • Fixed issues

System requirements and compatibility

• Licensing

• Citrix Provisioning telemetry data elements

• Configuring a vDisk for Microsoft volume licensing

Architecture

• Components

• Product utilities

• Administrator roles

• Collections

• Citrix Provisioning console

Install Citrix Provisioning software

• Pre-installation tasks

• Network components

• Install the Citrix Provisioning server component

• Running the configuration wizard silently

• Install the Citrix Provisioning console component

• Preparing a master target device for imaging

• Using the Imaging Wizard to create a new vDisk

Upgrade

• Servers

• vDisks

Configure

• Console

• Farm

• Server

• Device collections

• Target devices

  • Using the Boot Device Management utility

  • Streaming Linux target devices

  • About SAN policies

  • Using the Status Tray on a target device

• vDisks

  • Configure vDisks for Active Directory management

  • Assign vDisks to target devices

• Citrix Provisioning on Microsoft Azure

• Citrix Provisioning on Google Cloud Platform

• Citrix Provisioning in Nutanix on AWS

• VMware cloud and partner solutions

• Use the Export Devices Wizard

• Using the Streamed VM Setup Wizard

• Deploying virtual desktops to VMs using the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops™ Setup Wizard

• Provisioning vGPU-enabled Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops machines

• Citrix Provisioning Accelerator

• UEFI pre-boot environments

• Citrix Provisioning managed by Citrix Cloud™

• Support for multiple zones in the catalog creation process

• Provision target devices in untrusted domain using API PowerShell commands

• Create Citrix Provisioning catalogs in Citrix Studio

• Create Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs

Manage

• Farms

• Sites

• Servers

• Stores

• Device collections

• Target devices

• vDisks

  • Selecting the write cache destination for standard vDisk images

  • Support for replicated vDisk storage

  • Exporting and importing vDisks

  • Releasing vDisk locks

  • Copying and pasting vDisk properties

  • Adding existing vDisks to a pool or store

  • Backing up a vDisk

  • Viewing vDisk usage

  • Deleting cache on a difference disk

  • Assigning vDisks and versions to target devices

  • Updating vDisks

  • Converting BIOS vDisks to UEFI

  • Retire or deleting vDisks

  • Troubleshooting vDisks

• Views

• Administrative roles

Advanced concepts

• Windows Secure Boot certificate expiration and CA updates

• Enable secure connection by limiting SQL server to TLS 1.2

• Enable SQL Server Always On multi-subnet failover

• SQL basic availability groups

• Storage migration within the same host

• Managing for highly available implementations

  • Offline database support

  • Database mirroring

  • SQL AlwaysOn for SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019

  • Provisioning server failover

  • Configuring for high availability with shared storage

  • Configuring the boot file for high availability

Troubleshooting

• Logging

• Auditing

• APIs

• CIS problem reporting

• Migrate VM to a new hosting resource

How-to

• Create and configure ESD update VMs

• Configure managed vDisks for automated updates

• Create and manage tasks