We’ve written extensively here about the challenges of using Citrix Provisioning Services to provision VMs that require key activation (i.e., Vista, Win7, and Server 2008/2008R2). We publicly rejoiced when the news broke that PVS v5.6, SP1, supported both KMS and...
Tag: Provisioning
Citrix, Microsoft, Virtualization
Citrix Fixes the Provisioning Services – KMS Problem
This is big news for anyone who wants to use XenDesktop to facilitate a Windows 7 migration. Here’s why: It only takes a moment’s thought to realize that if your desktop virtualization project simply trades inexpensive desktop SATA storage for...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
More on Provisioning Services and KMS
Last fall, we posted about Citrix Provisioning Services and Microsoft KMS activation. To briefly recap, here’s the issue: When you convert a Windows 7 OS image to a shared image for provisioning, it breaks the Microsoft license key. The way...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Provisioning Services, Microsoft Licenses, and KMS
Citrix Provisioning Services, which evolved from their acquisition of the Ardence technology, enables some great concepts: Since the first time a Citrix customer deployed more than one WinFrame server, we’ve struggled with the issue of change control – how do...