Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 -- Table of Contents -- Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 -- Credits -- Notice -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 -- The background of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 -- High-level logical flow of Citrix® Provisioning Services -- Architecture of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 -- Provisioning Service License server -- Provisioning Service Database server -- Provisioning Service Admin Console -- Shared storage service -- Active Directory Server -- Network services -- Citrix® Provisioning Server -- Terminology -- Citrix® Provisioning Service farms -- Citrix® Provisioning Service stores -- Citrix® Provisioning Service sites -- Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk -- Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk modes -- Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk pools -- Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk Update Management -- Citrix® Provisioning Service write cache destination -- System requirements -- Summary -- 2. Installing and Configuring Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 -- Installing Citrix® Provisioning Server using GUI -- Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services using the command-line interface -- Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services Console 7.0 using GUI -- Configuring Citrix® Provisioning Server 7.0 -- Configuring Provisioning Services using the command-line interface -- Summary -- 3. Managing Citrix® Provisioning Disk -- Organizing a principal target device.

Checking the readiness of the master target device's hard disk -- The principal target device's BIOS configuration -- Server network adapter BIOS configuration -- Deploying the master target device application and operating system updates -- Allocating a vDisk to the target device -- Properties of the principal target device -- Dealing with the bootstrap files and boot devices -- Summary -- 4. Operating Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 -- Managing and operating a farm -- Operating sites -- Managing and operating stores -- Managing and operating target devices -- Operation over target devices -- Creating a new target device object in the Provisioning Service database -- Setting the target device as the template for this collection -- Copying and pasting target device properties -- Booting target devices -- Checking the target device's status via Console -- Sending messages to target devices -- Enabling/disabling a target device -- Managing and operating the device collections -- Device management operations -- Creating a device collection -- Importing a device collection -- Deleting a device collection -- Booting target devices within a collection -- Managing views -- Managing and operating the provisioning servers -- Operation tasks in the Provisioning Service task -- Copying and pasting server properties -- Deleting a server -- Starting, stopping, or restarting Provisioning Services on a server -- Showing the server connections -- Load balancing the target devices on a server -- Checking for vDisk access updates -- Manually configuring Provisioning Servers -- Operating vDisks -- Creating vDisks -- Creating vDisk images -- Summary -- 5. Upgrading Citrix® Provisioning Farm and vDisk -- Upgrading the existing Provisioning Services farm -- The Hyper-V method -- Installing Hyper-V Integration Services (optional) -- The Reverse Imaging method.

Updating vDisks -- Manual vDisk creation -- Automatic vDisk creation -- Managing update tasks -- Merging of the vDisk from the existing disk -- Promoting the update version -- Troubleshooting reference articles -- Summary -- Index.