New hotfix for Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1

Citrix has released today yet another hotfix for it’s Provisioning Services 6.1 version.

Issue(s) Resolved in this Hotfix

This hotfix addresses the following issue reported against Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1 Release:

BUG0309604: Target rebalancing fails due to DB and Inventory reporting different server entry for a vdisk.

Installing and Uninstalling this Hotfix

Notes:

• The user must have administrative rights to the Provisioning Services server.

To install this hotfix:

1. Download the hotfix package from the Hotfixes and Service Packs page of the Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.com.

2. Copy the hotfix package to an empty folder on the hard drive of the server you want to install the hotfix from and unzip the file.

Steps to install the hotfix:

INSTALLATION

The hotfix folder includes the following two subfolders:

server32bit (32bit Windows installation)

server64bit (64bit Windows installation)

Please check your Provisioning Services server for system type and select the correct subfolder to apply the hotfix following the procedure described below.

To install this hotfix on the Provisioning Services server:

1. From the Provisioning Services server machine, stop the “Citrix PVS Stream Service” using the Provisioning Services Console; exit the Provisioning Services Console when finished. You may also stop “Citrix PVS Stream Service” from the Computer Management’s “Services” control panel.

2. From the Provisioning Services installation directory (Default is C:Program FilesCitrixProvisioning Services), backup the following file:

Notifier.exe

3. Copy the following files included in the selected hotfix subfolder to the Provisioning Services installation directory, make sure you copy from the appropriate subfolder (“server32bit” or “server64bit”) for your server machine type:

Notifier.exe

PVS6.1_hf309604_x_manifest.md5

where “x” is 32bit or 64bit depending on the system.

4. Restart the “Citrix PVS Stream Service”.

To uninstall this hotfix:

Follow the same procedure for installation replacing the new files with the original files backed up.

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