What's new

• Fixed issues

• Known issues

• Deprecation

Provisioning Services product overview

• Provisioning Services product infrastructure

• Provisioning Services administrator roles

• Product utilities

Upgrading a Provisioning Services farm

• Upgrading Provisioning Servers

• Upgrading vDisks

  • Upgrading vDisks using Hyper-V

  • Upgrading vDisks by reverse imaging

Installing and configuring Provisioning Services

• Pre-installation tasks

• Licensing

• Upgrading a Provisioning Services target device vDisk using in-place upgrade

• Configuring UEFI pre-boot environments

• Installing Provisioning Services Server software

• Configuring the farm

• Running the Configuration Wizard silently

• Installing Provisioning Services Console software

• Adding additional Provisioning Servers

• Preparing a master target device for imaging

• Using the Imaging Wizard to create a new vDisk

• Assigning vDisks to target devices

• Uninstalling Provisioning Services product software

• Configuring the bootstrap file from the console

• Getting the bootstrap file

• Using the Manage Boot Devices utility

• CIS Problem Reporting

• Enable SQL Server Always On multi-subnet failover

• About SAN policies

• Configure Linux Streaming

• Configure PVS-Accelerator

Using the Provisioning Services Console

• Performing tasks in the Console

Managing farms

• Farm properties

• Farm tasks

Managing administrative roles

• Managing farm administrators

• Managing site administrators

• Managing device administrators

• Managing device operators

Managing Provisioning Servers

• Provisioning Servers in the console

• Provisioning Server properties

• Overview of Provisioning Server tasks

• Copying and pasting Provisioning Server properties

• Deleting a Provisioning Server

• Starting, stopping, or restarting Provisioning Services

• Showing Provisioning Server connections

• Balancing the target device load on Provisioning Servers

• Checking for Provisioning Server vDisk access updates

• Configuring Provisioning Servers manually

• Disabling write cache to improve performance when using storage device drives

• Providing Provisioning Servers with access to stores

Managing target devices

• Configuring the BIOS-embedded bootstrap

• Adding target devices to the database

  • Using the Auto-Add Wizard

• Setting the target device as the template for this collection

• Copying and pasting target device properties

• Booting target devices

• Checking a target device's status from the console

• Sending messages to target devices

• Disabling a target device

• Deleting target devices

• Shutting down target devices

• Restarting target devices

• Using the Status Tray on a target device

• Managing target device Personality

• Moving target devices between collections

• Changing the device status to Down

• Target device properties

• Configuring target devices that use personal vDisks

Managing vDisks

• Creating vDisks

  • Creating vDisk Files Manually

  • About the Common vDisk Image feature

  • Create Common Images for use with XenServer VMs and Physical Devices, or Blade Servers

  • Creating a Common Image for use with Multiple Physical Device Types

• Prerequisites for deploying vDisks

• Configuring the vDisk access mode

• Selecting the write cache destination for standard vDisk images

• Configuring a vDisk for Microsoft Volume Licensing

• Managing load balancing across servers

• Support for replicated vDisk storage

• Exporting and importing vDisks

• Releasing vDisk locks

• Copying and pasting vDisk properties

• Adding existing vDisks to a vDisk pool or store

• Backing up a vDisk

• Viewing vDisk usage

• Deleting cache on a difference disk

• vDisk properties

• Assigning vDisks and versions to target devices

• Updating vDisks

  • VHDX chain of differencing disks

  • Manually updating a vDisk image

  • Automating vDisk updates

  • Merging VHDX differencing disks

  • Promoting updated versions

  • Updating vDisks on target devices

• Retiring or deleting vDisks

Managing device collections

• Device collection properties

• Creating a device collection

• Importing target devices into a collection

• Deleting a collection

• Refreshing a collection in the console

• Booting target devices within a collection

• Restarting target devices within a collection

• Shutting down target devices within a collection

• Sending messages to target devices within a collection

• Moving collections within a site

Managing views

• View properties

• Managing views in the console

Managing for highly available implementations

• Offline database support

• Database mirroring

• SQL AlwaysOn for SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016

• Provisioning Server failover

• Configuring for high availability with shared storage

• Configuring the boot file for high availability

Configuring vDisks for Active Directory management

• Managing domain passwords

• Enabling domain management

• Managing domain computer accounts

Network components

• Preparing network switches

• Using UNC names

• Reducing network utilization

• Managing Roaming User Profiles

• Booting through a router

• Managing multiple network interface cards

• Updating NIC drivers

Managing printers

• Installing printers on a vDisk

• Enabling or disabling printers on a vDisk

• Methods for enabling printers on a vDisk

• Enabling the Printer Management feature