MCS VMs power status became unknown

The customer said a lot of users' VMs power status became unknown...

Citrix cloud - Failed to create AD accounts for an MCS Catalog with PowerShell SDK.

You may be unable to create a computer AD account with PowerShell SDK using a service account. It will fail with error: Command: $adAccounts.FailedAccounts Impersonate user logon failed, Win32 Error Code: 1385 Error Reason: InvalidParamtersForADOperation...

New machines are created in default OU rather than OU specified during catalog creation

MCS machines created from DaaS studio are getting created in default computer OU, rather than the OU selected during catalog creation...

MCS: Machine catalogue update fails due to ErrorID: FailedToReadMasterImageMetadata

MCS Catalogs on HyperV with SCVMM Server 2019 can't be updated. The following error is displayed: Exception: DesktopStudioErrorId ProvisioningTaskError Error Category: NotSpecified ErrorID : FailedToReadMasterImageMetadata TaskErrorInformation :Terminated InternalErrorMessage: The value must not ...

The new feature "Use existing identity pools to create identities for MCS-provisioned machines"

For quick deploy, it should be 1 to 1 mapping for identity pool to MCS catalog...

How to enable Azure Accelerated Networking on MCS VMs

To give an overview of how to enable the Azure Accelerated Networking Feature on MCS provisioned VMs...

Fail to create MCS machine catalog with error ID: XDDS: F0522F7D

The following error occurs when creating a catalog using MCS: ------ Error Id: XDDS: F0522F7D Exception: DesktopStudioErrorld: ProvisioningTaskError ErrorCategory: NotSpecified ErrorID: DiskConsolidationFailed TaskErrorinformation: Terminated InternalErrorMessage: Invalid diskFilename: storage...

Citrix MCS may take several hours to delete failed tasks

Citrix MCS may take several hours to delete failed VM creation tasks...

Migrating Citrix MCS Catalogs To New Storage

Storage migration for MCS machines...

Duplicate Basedisk present in storage after MCS upgrade process completes

Virtual disk storage repositoryis filling up unexpectedly Duplicate Base Disk volumes will be present in storage repositories...

Oracle Linux 5 : mcstrans (ELSA-2007-0542)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0542 advisory. 0.2.6-1 - Don't allow categories 1023 Resolves: 288941 0.2.3-1 - Additional fix to handle ssh root/sysadmr/s0:c1,c2 Resolves: 224637 0.2.1-1 - Rewrite to handle...

How to specify the drive letter for the MCSIO Write Cache disk

Setting a specific Windows Drive letter to the disk created by the MCS Write Cache mechanism MCS IO / MCSWCDisk...

Citrix MCS failed when Azure storage account configured with TLS 1.2 Version.

Citrix MCS fails if the Azure storage account is configured with the TLS 1.2 version...

MS Teams Outlook Add-in missing

MS Teams is installed on the Master Image MS Teams Outlook Add-in is visible on the Master Image session MS Teams Outlook Add-in is missing on the MCS/PVS VDAs...

Add New VMs to MCS catalog Failed with Error "CreateClone Failed: No Virtual Disk Image Exists"

Received an Inner Error when adding new VMs to an existing MCS catalog: CreateClone failed: no virtual disk image exists with ID 'xxxx'...

Unable to list or change the Master Image for a MCS catalog in Studio

Unable to list or change the Master Image for a MCS catalog in Studio. Error Cannot find path 'XDHyp:\HostingUnits\\image.folder\undefined.sharedsubscription' because it does not exist. For details, click here. If the problem persists, contact Citrix Technical Support. Transaction ID:...

Azure MCS catalog update fails with FailedToStartImagePreparationVm - CreateUpdateVm-1 timed out

Unable to update a machine catalog for an Azure hosted MCS deployment. The MCS process fails early about 15% into the update The error message shows "Error - Terminated", and the action name is "MCUpdateMachineCatalog" The full stack trace is similar to this : TerminatedStack Trace: at...

VDA machines stuck at Initializing for Hybrid Azure AD join

For Citrix MCS provisioned Hybrid Azure AD joined machine catalogs, the VDA machines might be stuck at “Initializing” status after startup. And when you login to the VDA machines and execute the “dsregcmd /status /debug” command, you will find below error message under “Diagnostic Data” “Server...

Citrix Cloud - VDI's are being created in wrong OU (default)

New issue reported over the past month where from time to time, newly created VDI's are being created in wrong OU default. In the console while creating the VDI, even when it is showing correct OU location, when creating new machines via the console , machines will be placed under default OU...

mcs-northernarea.co.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3332664

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...