Increase the size of the App Layering boot disk for packaging

When you create/edit layers in App Layering, a packaging machine is created. If you have caching enabled, then a boot disk is created as well as copies of the OS layer and any relevant App Layer. When the packing machine is booted, some system data such as the pagefile is stored on that boot disk...

App Layering - Set Static MAC Address on a Packaging Machine

By default an App layering packaging machine will use DHCP to assign an IP address. There is no built in mechanism to change this behavior to use a statically assigned IP. To work around this, a manually assigned MAC address can be set on a VM Template in your hypervisor. Then an IP address can b...

How to change the default lifetime of Compositing Engine packaging machine in ELM

By default, if finalization has not begun in 3 days of time since the Packaging Machine was created, the task will be canceled with a timeout error. On the ELM logs, you may see something like the below: 2020-01-02 13:43:59,486 ERROR 61605 CompositingEngineP: Timeout occured after...

OS Layer Finalize fails with error "It looks like the packaging Machine has never been powered on".

While finalizing an OS layer edit in the App Layering appliance, you receive an error,"It looks like the packaging Machine has never been powered on." Can see the below error in ELM logs: 2019-11-01 09:53:36,890 ERROR 27 CpTaskResultMessag: Got Error type GlobalizedError. FailureReason: It looks...

App Layering/Unidesk: Published Image or Packaging Machine Blue Screens with Code STOP 0x75640007

Published image or Unidesk desktop or Packaging Machineblue-screens with code 0x75640007...

How to remove or cancel incomplete tasks in Citrix App Layering

This guide covers how to remove and cancel half finished and incomplete tasks in Citrix App Layering. For example, you may have deleted a packaging machine off of your hypervisor, but the action remains incomplete in the management console...

How to install applications that require joining the domain with Citrix App Layering

Question: During new layer creation, we need to join the domain to successfully install our applications. However, we read that only the platform layer should be joined to the domain - can we join the domain while creating an application layer? Answer: You can temporarily join a packaging machine...

Problems activating PVS Target Devices configured for KMS licensing

Your PVS Target Devices are configured for KMS licensing, and after activating the first PVS Target device, activation of other PVS Target Devices devices fail. When you look more closely at the Target Devices you find that the devices all share the same CMID. This means that when building the...