How to Capture a Network Trace for a PVS Target Device

This article describes how to capture a target-side network trace from a Provisioned Services PVS machine. Requirements Hypervisors: XenServer 5.x XenServer 6.x VMware ESX 4.x VMware ESXi 5.x Hyper-V 2012 Or Physical Environment including but not limited to HP/IBM/Dell/Cisco target devices...

Error: 'An error occurred during upload.' While Attempting to Add Licenses through the License Management Console

Certain license files cannot be imported using the Citrix Licensing Management Console. When trying to import these files, the console reports an error message: "An error occurred during upload." Thisissue only occurs whenthe Citrix Licensing Management console is run on Windows Server 2008...

VMware vSphere 6 - Citrix Known Issues

Citrix is committed to ensuring compatibility with the latest VMware hypervisor releases. VMware released vSphere 6 in March 2015, vSphere 6 Update 1 in September 2015, vSphere 6 Update 2 in March 2016 and vSphere 6 Update 3 in March 2017. Basic compatibility testing has been performed between...

Session Sharing Explained with Troubleshooting Steps

This article explains session sharing and discusses some common scenarios. Session sharing is the ability of a seamless published application to be executed over the same connection as other seamless applications that are already running on the same server, under an existing Session ID of a user...

Pass-through Authentication Might Fail Starting Publish Desktops with StoreFront and Desktop Viewer

Pass-through authentication to StoreFront does not work when starting XenApp published desktops. When users log on to the client workstation with Windows Active Directory AD credentials, the Receiver starts and successfully passes the user credentials to the configured Store and displays availabl...

Hotfix Rollup Pack 1 for XenApp 5 2008 - Features and Enhancements List

This article describes Hotfix Rollup Pack 1 for Citrix XenApp 5 for Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Hotfix Rollup Pack 1 is cumulative - it can be installed on top of the XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 base product, on top of the first Feature Pack, Feature Pack 2, or Feature Pack 3. HRP01...

vDisk Inactive State with Broadcom Network Cards

After installing Citrix Provisioning Services Server Target Device Software on a client computer that has a Broadcom Network Interface Card and restarting the target device, the Provisioning Services PVS status in the system tray displays Inactive. After initially installing the Target Device...

Citrix HTML5 Receiver No Longer Works on Chrome Version 30

When accessing StoreFront from a Chrome browser while trying to launch a published resource using Receiver for HTML5, the following error appears: Cannot reach server. Check your network connection or contact your help desk for assistance...

Best Practices to Uninstall XenApp/Presentation Server on Windows Server

This article contains best practices for uninstalling XenApp/Presentation Server 4.5 on Windows Server. Best Practices Before uninstalling any Citrix Server products, consider the following points: Ensure that all Hotfixes and Hotfix Rollup Packs are removed before uninstalling. Refer to the Hotf...

Error: "Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure" on Provisioning Services

The Provisioning Services PVS service fails to start with the following error: "Windows could not start the Citrix PVS Stream Service server on ServerName. Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure"...

How to Upgrade from StoreFront 2.1 to StoreFront 2.6

The sequence of steps to upgrade from StoreFront 1.2to StoreFront 2.5: 1. Upgrade from StoreFront1.2 to StoreFront2.0. 2. Upgrade from StoreFront 2.0 to StoreFront 2.5 or StoreFront 2.6. For more information see the StoreFrontlegacy product documentation. To learn more about upgrading from...

Citrix XML Services Configured for Farm Controller Fails to Respond to XML Service Transaction

Citrix XML Services configured for farm Controller fails to respond to XML Service transaction after installing Microsoft KB2919355 on Controllers. Uninstalling the patch KB2919355 on Windows 2012 R2 Controller resolves this issue...

CITRIX-XML-SERVICE NetScaler Monitor Fails after Installing XenApp 6 Hotfix Rollup Pack 02

The CITRIX-XML-SERVICE NetScaler built-in monitor fails after Hotfix Rollup Pack 2 for Citrix XenApp 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is installed. However, XenApp continues to work. The following message appears when you view the monitor. "Failure – TicketTag not found in the response" Wit...

Error: "Unable to Create Deployment" on StoreFront

The installation of StoreFront fails and the error message “Unable to Create Deployment ” is displayed on the console: The following are the Event Viewer Errors: Source: Citrix Delivery Services AdminEvent ID: 1Description:...

How to Enable Continuous CDF Tracing in Provisioning Services 7.x

This article describes how to enable continuous CDF tracing in Citrix Provisioning, formerly Provisioning Services, 7.x...

Identifying Different License Types

This article describes how to identify different Citrix license types. To license a Citrix product, it requires a license code that must be activated or allocated and uploaded to the appropriate environment, such as the License Administration Console, the XenServer or an appliance. License Code...

XenApp Error: Citrix Servers Reported That They are Too Busy to Provide Access to the Selected Resource

On attempting to launch any published application from a XenApp 6.0 server, the server reports that it is too busy to provide access to the selected resource. The application event log contains the following entry: The Citrix servers reported that they are too busy to provide access to the select...

POODLE SSLV3.0 Security Issue Workaround for License Server

Citrix Licensing 11.12.1 for Windows might be vulnerable to the Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption POODLE vulnerability. POODLE affects older standards of encryption - Secure Socket Layer SSL version 3 but not the newer encryption method Transport Layer Security TLS. Citrix suggests t...

How to Configure StoreFront and Smart Card Authentication for Internal Users using Stores

This article describes how to configure Citrix StoreFront 2.0 and Smart Card authentication using Gemalto .NET cards against stores for internal users. Requirements The following components are needed to allow users connectthrough Smart Card to StoreFront: Citrix StoreFront 2.x Citrix Receiver fo...

How to Collect a Citrix Diagnostic Facility (CDF) Trace at System Startup

The CDFControl utility is an event tracing controller or consumer for capturing Citrix Diagnostic Facility CDF trace messages displayed from various Citrix tracing providers. It is made to troubleshoot complex Citrix related issues, parse filter support, and collect performance data. To download...