New XenDesktop Setup Wizard Released – vSphere Fixes!

Posted on July 07, 2009 in News tagged with , , , , , ,

Yesterday Citrix released a new version of the Citrix XenDesktop Setup Wizard. The Setup Wizard is the tool used to provision Virtual Machines for use with XenDesktop. It creates the VM using a template, names it according to your specified convention, adds the target device to the Provisioning Server database, creates the Active Directory Machine Account, and then places the VM in the desired Desktop Group.

Previously, there was an issue when you attempted to query vSphere 4 for VM Templates in order to provision new VMs. According to Citrix, this issue was fixed in CTX122057 as part of Citrix XenDesktop Setup Wizard, Version 3.0.3063 (XDE300SW001). This version addresses the following issues:

  1. When run on Provisioning Server 5.1, the Setup Wizard fails to list virtual disks on the Virtual Disk page. [From XDE300SW001][#210877]
  2. XenDesktop cannot see machine states and control VMs. This occurs when using the Setup Wizard to add desktops to an existing desktop group. It does not occur when adding desktops to a new group. [From XDE300SW001][#211398]
  3. When run connecting to a VMWare (vSphere 4) hosting infrastructure, the Setup Wizard fails to retrieve VM templates and users cannot proceed. [From XDE300SW001][#210879]

The update is available at http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122057 and is a simple executable.