How to install Citrix XenDesktop VDA during deployment (part 2)

Earlier this year I wrote a blogpost about "Installing Citrix XenDesktop VDA and PVS Agent during deployment". Unfortunately enough it in't working, because there are to less folders during installation. I followed the guide found on Day to Day tech issues and tips. This is a really great guide to install Citrix VDA, but there is mentioned: Create a folder (x86 and/or x64) and copy the following folders from the Citrix installation media. The XenDesktop installation will look for additional information in the other folders, so they are needed as well. Based on the installation parameters even more folders could be necessary. (and they are for sure!)

Case is, this isn't enough for sure! Just copy the whole Citrix media to get it working, with the following folders and files in it. Otherwise the following errors will be mentioned in "%AppData%\Local\Temp\1\Citrix\XenDesktop Installer\XenDesktop Installation.txt"
-XenDesktopSetup:Unable to read product version details from file ProductVersion.txt Could not find file 'C:\Citrix XenDesktop\ProductVersion.txt'.
-XenDesktopSetup:InstallComponent: Failed to install component 'Machine Identity Service'. Could not find file 'C:\Citrix XenDesktop\ProductVersion.txt'.
-XenDesktopSetup:Recording installation failure. Could not find file 'C:\Citrix XenDesktop\ProductVersion.txt'.

Let's have a look at folders and files missing:

Root

x64 folder

After that Citrix XenDesktop VDA will be installed succesfully! Just have a look at the logfile again:
XenDesktopSetup:Installation complete, reboot needed
XenDesktopSetup:Installation Manager returned SuccessRebootNeeded

When installation is still failing because it's using x86 on a x64 system (seen that once), just use CD "x64\XenDesktop Setup" instead of "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" variable.
Happy that Citrix installation is working now!

More blogposts on this topic:
How to install Citrix XenDesktop VDA and PVS Agent during deployment
Implementing ConfigMgr in a XenDesktop VDI environment

How to install Citrix XenDesktop VDA and PVS Agent during deployment

Last week I had some troubles to install Citrix XenDesktop VDA and PVS agent during deployment. Citrix XenDesktop VDA deployment was installed partly and PVS did an unexpected reboot during installation. In both situations we had no good result. Lucky me someone else wrote blogposts about this. Let's have a (short) look.

Recently I have been struggling a little to get the XenDesktop VDA agent installed correctly during a ConfigMgr OSD deployment. I ended up with the following solution: Installing Citrix XenDesktop VDA Agent in ConfigMgr 2012 TS 

The PVS Agent on a VM is necessary to create the vDisk in Citrix PVS. In this small post I describe the steps to take in order to get this successfully deployed during a ConfigMgr OSD TS. Installing Citrix Provisioning Services Agent during ConfigMgr OSD deployment

Hope it helps!

Source: ConfigMgr 2012 & Citrix PVS/XenDesktop

More blogposts on this topic:
How to install Citrix XenDesktop VDA during deployment (part 2)