Error - "An Unexpected MAPI Error Occurred. Index Was Out of Range. Must Be Non-Negative and Less Than the Size of the Collection."

In a multi-domain environment, user account from a different domain than the one PVS environment is on is unable to open PVS console, getting error "An unexpected MAPI error occurred." Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index."...

PVS Provisioned VDA Experiences Poor Performance and Freezing

A PVS provisioned VDA can experience poor performance and freezing when the Machine Creation Services Write Back Cache drivers MCSIO are present in the vDisk image. It is typical to have first identified a machine in this state by its unregistered VDA status. While trying to access the VM, it may...

pvs-logistik.by Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1152674 Security Researcher Gh05tPT Helped patch 6901 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 48 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting pvs-logistik.by website...

pvs-se.de Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1141407 Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3754 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting pvs-se.de website and its...

Changing the Service startup timeout (ServicesPipeTimeout) in Windows

If a service doesn't start within a set amount of time, Windows will kill it and put an error in the System event log. You might decide that you need to extend the service startup timeout. Or, if your services are complaining about a startup timeout too quickly, you might decide you need to check...

Auto DNS registration by PVS Targets blocked by "Secure Updates Only" DNS setting

Auto DNS registration by PVS Targets blocked by "Secure Updates Only " DNS setting, plustheir timestamp in DNS showed "static "...

PT-2020-20414 · Linux · Lvm2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: LVM2 version 2.02 Description: The issue is related to memory mismanagement in the vg lookup function in daemons/lvmetad/lvmetad-core.c, leading to a memory leak in lvmetad. This can be demonstrated by running the pvs command. Recommendations...

Administrators of a different forest are unable to log on to PVS Console

Error : "An unexpected MAPI error occurred" Details: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index Administrators of same forest as that of PVS servers are able to log in to the console of PVS servers, however, administrators of a...

How to Migrate PVS server from one datastore to another datastore

Migrate PVS server from one datastore to another datastore...

PVS target devices are randomly getting unregistered and going down in PVS console

Target devices show up and running in hypervisor console Targets show down in PVS console and get unregistered intermittently Restart fixes the issue During the time of issue, ping to the target device works,but RDP fails...

PVS vDisk not showing shows no server in size on Second PVS server in the site.

PVS vDisk not showing shows no server in size on Second PVS server in the site. 1. Two PVS servers in site. 2. Both have local storage for the vDisk's 3. Copy the vDisk file from one server to another. 4. Target server shows as No Server under size for the copied vDisk. 5. When checking the...

The wrong database version is being used. Found version: xx Expected version number: xx

PVS - 7.1 upgrade to 7.8 - The wrong database version is being used. Found version: xx Expected version number: xx...

Event 7011:Service Control Manager NLASVC Service Timings Out

PVS server becomes unresponsive with numerous event 7011 - A timeout 30000 milliseconds was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the Nlasvc service...

Dual NIC Support for Images Published to PVS

Images published to PVS particularly on Hyper-V that use 2 NICs will blue-screen on boot. This article describes how to correctly create images to support dual NICs with PVS...

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...

Provisioning Services: PVS Servers May Stop Responding Or Target Devices May Freeze During Startup Due To Large Size Of MS SQL Transaction Logs

PVS servers may stop responding or PVS target devices may freeze during startup because there is not enough disk space left MS SQL server due to large Transaction log file size. Increasing the disk space on SQL servers resolves the issue of Target Device startup...

Event Viewer on PVS servers reports error: "DbAccess error: <Record was not found <-31754> (in DiskLocatorGetByDiskId() called from SSProtocolLogin.ccp:945)"

Event Viewer on PVS servers is reporting the error: "DbAccess error: in DiskLocatorGetByDiskId called from SSProtocolLogin.ccp:945"...

Event Viewer on the PVS Target Devices Shows: "Unable to update database with new machine account - The operation completed successfully. (0x0)"

Error shown in the Event Viewer on all the PVS Target Devices: Source: BNDevice EventID: 1014 Unable to update database with new machine account password - The operation completed successfully. 0x0. All PVS Target Devices are getting the same error every one hour after the first automatic attempt...

How to use Citrix App Layering with Fixed IP Addresses

In App Layering, the ELM needs to be able to determine which NIC device is the "active" NIC. The ELM must determine the active NIC in orderto properly merge network instances and services from different layers, howeverthere's no flag in the registry that identifies the NIC that will be used to...

Applayering 4.11- unable to add pvs connector

while adding a pvs connector, we get an error as Failed to validate the Domain User and Password. Check credentials .One or more of the PVS server configuration fields is invalid. Please check your selections...