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Provisioning Server Events Comtrade.Citrix.ProvisioningServices.Server.LogWatcher.EventView (FolderItem) Displays all Provisioning Services event log errors and warnings.
2 days ago Find Services Using a Domain Account on Specified Computers in Microsoft Active Directory (Get-ServiceAccounts V1.20) January 19, 2021; Citrix “Old” Provisioning Services Documentation Script Update 4.30 January 19, 2021; Citrix Provisioning Services 7.x Documentation Script Update Version 6.00 January 19, 2021.

The purpose of this article is to explain the functionality of SQL Server AlwaysOn in relation to Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) and detail the requirements that must be met for its successful implementation. The SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature is a high-availability solution that provides an alternative to database mirroring.

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Provisioning Services (PVS) is software streaming technology that delivers patches, updates and other configuration information to multiple virtual desktop endpoints through a shared desktop image. It centralizes virtual machine management while reducing the operational and storage costs of a virtualized desktop environment
Refer to the following articles to troubleshoot Provisioning Services issues:
Citrix Provisioning Services is not installed on the server
The Provisioning Services console is not installed
The PVS Inventory process is not running
The Notifier process is not running on the Provisioning Services server
The Stream process is not running on the PVS server
The Stream service is not running on the PVS server
The Soap service is not running on the PVS server
The Tftp service is not running on the PVS server
The PowerShell version is lower than 3 on the PVS server
The Provisioning Services database server can't be contacted
The Provisioning Server either cannot be found or shows as **down** in the Provisioning Services Console
The Provisioning Services server can't communicate with the Citrix Licensing Server
The PXE service is not running on the PVS server
The Citrix PVS Two-Stage Boot (TSB) service is not running

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A number of reports are coming in from different sources that Citrix has changed something in Citrix Provisioning Server licensing or working. The impact of this is that customers using Citrix Provisioning server datacenter license suddenly can’t use the product anymore after upgrading to version 7.8. This impacts the customers using the XenApp Advanced or Enterprise license as far as I know now. So something has changed, but what?

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I did a quick search in the archive to see if this restriction was also there in 2015 already, did we all sleep and sell the wrong license? We always sold the Citrix provisioning server datacenter license as that was interesting in price for the customer offering streaming of all servers and desktops running in the datacenter. Citrix also advised this in several occasions in bids. Surprised is not strong enough when we notice that customers have issues after upgrading. The restriction wasn’t there in 2015.

Now in 2016 suddenly this license has changed and this one is there. That’s a change which would mean customers would need to upgrade their license. That’s one side of the medal, the other side is that after they upgrade Citrix Provisioning Server simply refuses it function because the license is not accepted.

It would have been nice if Citrix would have informed customers and partners that they would change something. Wondering how this is gonna be solved, hearing lots of customers of different partners impacted. For customers it feels like a pTAX.