Updated: The focus and root cause in this blog post has changed since I initially wrote it.  There are tons of good nuggets in the first section, so I decided to leave them so readers could follow my troubleshooting logic... Over the last couple months I've been playing and working extensively with Windows Server 2012 R2. Citrix's release of XenDesktop 7.1 and PVS 7.1 added full support for Windows Server 2012 R2, so I figured it was time to re-evaluate my current standards and deployment preferences around XenDesktop, Provisioning Services, etc. In my current setup, I'm using a CIFS Store [...]