Citrix have announced a new initative "Take two" where you can pay an additional "insurance" fee when taking an exam and get a second retake if you fail the first time.

See this link for more details.

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Citrix have released SP2 for PVS 4.5

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By default EdgeSight captures a mini dump file when either of the following occurs:

• An application crashes. This is also known as a Process Fault event or alert

• The EdgeSight Agent process rscorsvc.exe process crashes

These mini dump files are helpful, but sometimes insufficient to fully diagnose an application problem. Configuring EdgeSight to capture a full dump of the crashing process provides a great deal more information that can better lead to the root cause.

There are some hidden registry keys that allow you to capture a full process dump - for some reason Citrix do not make these details available on the Support Website!

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I've been spending some time recently on a proof of concept for Citrix Provisioning Server.

The client is using Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition for their XenApp servers to allow large memory usage (memory hungry apps!)

For performance, I wanted to use the local discs in the Blades for the provisioning server write cache, but every time I booted a provisioned client in shared disc mode, the local disc would disappear, and the cache would revert back to the PVS which killed performance (swap file over the network..ouch)

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If you're running Presentation Server 4.5 with feature pack 1 on Windows 2003, then you are also running XenApp5!

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First post for a while.. (been busy with a new baby!)

Just downloaded the RTM code of Citrix Provisioning Server v5 which is now available in mycitrix portal.

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