Configuring XenDesktop 5.6 with Provisioning Services 6.1 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC

There have been a lot of amazing announcements this week, the most notable was the availability of XenDesktop 5.6 and Provisioning Services 6.1 which now both support System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate (and RTM once announced). In addition, Microsoft announced the availability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Community Technology Preview (CTP) which extends the SCVMM capabilities to support "Hyper-V 3" on codenamed Windows Server "8". With a little playing around, I was able to determine that both XenDesktop 5.6 and PVS 6.1 may require additional code changes to support SP1. For example, for PVS [...]