Citrix Desktop Studio: Found invalid data while decoding

We just added another Citrix Desktop Deleivery Controller (DDC) 5.6 FP1 to our farm.   But when launching Desktop Studio on the new server and viewing HDX policy was blank and a refresh threw the following error: The "Found invalid data while decoding" tipped me off that it couldn't read or render the polices from the database.  Low and behold we didn't have the same or latest Citrix Group Policy Management installed...

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Using Infoblox TFTP for Citrix PVS

People always say that "tftp is anything but trivial" and if you've implemented it, you know how true this is.  We have multiple Citrix XenDesktop and Provisioning Server farms were looking for a simple highly avaialble solution to provide TFTP to a dozen or more vlans.  Each PVS farm services 5+ or more vlans and used the solution outlined here to stream to multiple networks from one PVS server.  But how do you provide the...

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