This week SP2 for Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0 was released. No new cool features in this release unfortunatly. New in this release are licensing changes for the integration in XenApp Platinum and Citrix Essentials. Furthermore a lot of fixes are implemented around AD integration, this was a big problem in SP1a.

From the release notes:

New in this Release

• Enhanced licensing to support streaming of Citrix XenApp Platinum
• Enhanced licensing to support streaming of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V
• Support for streaming a Microsoft Hyper-V tm Server 2008 Target Device

Fixed in this ReleaseTR-7977: Occasionally fail to Add AD clients in a multi-DC environment.
TR-7979: GetComputerName only works in NetBIOS environements.
TR-7990: PVS uses GetComputerName in several places, which only works in NetBIOS
environements.
TR-8005: KDC errors -Duplicate SPN errors after upgrading to PVS 5.0 SP1a
TR-8006: Wrong SPN created for computer account in AD.
TR-8011: Cannot log in as domain administrator while using fresh copy of a vdisk.
TR-8052: Fix adding clients to AD on sibling domains.
TR-8053: Make client-side machine password changes run in minutes or hours, instead
of days.
TR-8059: Device will fail to reset password because it does not retrieve domain name
properly.
TR-8064: Streamprocess writecache path list is not correct when wcpath values exist in
both the serverCache and serverStoreCache tables.
TR-8070: Adding auth groups to the farm via the MCLI from a very large Active Directory
database (60k+ groups) is failing.

Hotfixes in this releasePVS-Hotfix-8006: Provisioning Server creates a malformed SPN, resulting in duplicate
SPN’s in all the computer accounts they have added to the domain via Provisioning
Server
PVS-Hotfix-8052: Resolves the problem where the Provisioning Console is unable to
access clients in other domains
PVS-Hotfix-8070: Resolves the problem with adding auth groups for the farm using the
MCLI from a very large Active Directory database (60k+ groups)

Provisioning Server 5.0 SP2 can be downloaded as a full installation package. The upgrade process consist of an uninstall of the previous version and a new installation of Provisioning Server 5.0 SP2.

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