We are in the early stages of rolling out a VDI solution to targeted end users. I have been reading about PVS and CM2012 and I found this bit of information.
Keep in mind that your Master VM is a fully configured and running VM. You allow SCCM to install the client as normal and so the SCCM server is aware of the machine so I guess you can say the reverse it true as well. You do this install before you do create the catalog from the VM image of course. From there it should just work.
- Install the Configuration Manager client software on the golden image as part of your automated Configmgr Task Sequence
- Stop the SMS Agent Host service (CCMExec.exe) on the reference computer (net stop ccmexec).
- Delete the C:\Windows\SMSCFG.INI file
- Delete the current certificates in the "SMS" certificate store. ( open an MMC.exe)
- Change the provisioning image from private to standard.
- Stream the vdisk to target computers.
If you do not remove the certificates , you will get into the following problem that registration of the client will not succeed successfully.
Right now we build machines but running a task sequence which formats the C: drive, installs the CM2012 client and once that is installed it lays down about a dozen apps (Office, Adobe, Java etc...etc....)
What I am unclear on is why perform the steps above on the Reference computer? Why not on the Gold Image? And doesn't Citrix know how to handle image creation and doesn't it know about CM2012/SCCM and how to handle the GUIDs?
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