Unable to launch the PVS console. Error: "Unable to connect to the Domain Controller.."

After completing the PVS configuration Wizard using a service account within the same domain as the PVS server, the administrators are unable to launch the PVS console and observe the error - "Unable to connect to the Domain Controller if any or the default rootDSE. Error code: 44936673, message:...

Fail to delete vdisk from console "vDisk Properties Were lost"

The files of vdisk, pvp and lok has been removed from store. then delete vdisk from pvs console failed with error "vDisk Properties Were lost"...

PVS 1912CU5 on Windows 2012 R2 with KB501874: The specified AuthGroup does not exist

PVS console fails to login with error: "The specified AuthGroup does not exist"...

Cannot connect to vCenter from PVS Console using stronger SCHANNEL Protocols, such as TLS 1.2

When running the XenDesktop Setup Wizard or the Streamed VM Wizard, and connecting to a vCenter Server that has been configured to only accept connections using TLS 1.1 or higher, the PVS Console could present an error stating that the Connection was closed. The error shown will have a text simil...

PVS Console | Fails to load farm\site\server details with error 'Server communication timeout'

The PVS Console throws following error while expanding farm\site\server details: 'Server communication timeout' MMC Console timeouts may also be seen. Now consider a Large AD Environment, where there are multiple Domains and the PVS Administrator User account used to access the PVS Console is par...

Error "Hypervisor did not return the MAC address for this VM:Failed to connect to the remote server" in PVS Console

Getting an error message when attempting to create a vdisk within the vDisk Update Management in PVS console. Getting "Error Hypervisor VM Error. Hypervisor did not return the MAC address for this VM:Failed to connect to the remote server. Unable to locate server. The underlying connection was...

PVS XDSW, Error: "(vsan) cannot complete file creation operation"

Symptoms: PVS console returns the error "vsan cannot complete file creation operation". CDF traces show exception "CreateWriteCacheDisk failed to CreateBlankVHD : Citrix.Xip.XipException: A general system error occurred: PBM error occurred during PreProcessReconfigureSpec: pbm.fault.PBMFault;Erro...

Critical Error: "An error occurred communicating with the Server" when adding a server to a store

When adding a server to a store in PVS console, the console hangs, then after a few seconds the message Critical Error: "An error occurred communicating with the Server" is seen, and the soap service crashes. A soap service crash dump may show an exception due to the stack overflow, where it has...

Error: "Cannot establish a connection to the database because the server cannot be found. Please..." on PVS console

Error when attempting to access the PVS console: "Cannot establish a connection to the database because the server cannot be found. Please check your database connection settings in the registry and the network path to your server...

Error: "An error occurred communicating with the server" When Opening PVS Console and Connecting to the Farm

After upgrading Provisioning Services PVS, the following error message appears when launching the PVS Server Console: "An error occurred communicating with the server."...