IPC Error when Exporting the vDisk on Provisioning Services

IPC Error when exporting vDisk on Provisioning Services PVS. PVS Console log includes thefollowing errors: ERROR EnterpriseAccess.HandlerBase - PvsStatusExceptionHandlerERROR EnterpriseAccess.HandlerBase - return code: 184ERROR EnterpriseAccess.HandlerBase - exception type: PvsStatusExceptionERRO...

PVS Configuration Wizard does not display dialogues to configure DHCP or PXE services

Citrix Provisioning Configuration wizard does not display dialogues to configure DHCP servers and PXE Services. The configuration wizard begins by directly showing the Farm Configuration dialogue. If DHCP servers and PXE Services are not configured, PVS target devices which rely on those services...

PVS StreamProcess is crashing

PVS stream process is sporadically crashing...

How to Clean Up Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes Orphaned Volumes on GKE k8s 1.28.x

Purpose This guide provides instructions on how to clean up Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes provisioned PVs that are not deleted, causing orphaned volumes in the GKE k8s 1.28 release. It has been observed on GKE running k8s 1.28, Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes provisioned PVs using in-tree provisioner...

PVS export wizard reports "No Devices Found to Export"

Unable to add PVS provisioned machines to Studio Machine Catalogs. When using the Export Devices Wizard, users receive the error "No Devices Found to Export". Issue remains even after deleting and recreating the AD computer objects...

Citrix Provisioning - Converting An Existing vDisk From BIOS To UEFI

Converting an existing BIOS vDisk into UEFI vDisk for future PVS Target Device support...

error when importing new vdisk AN unexpected MAPI Error Occured

When trying to import vdisks into the PVS console, you may received an error. This occurs when it should be populating the list of disks available to import. The message is "An unexpected MAPI error occurred. Details: Index was outside the bounds of the array"...

PVS server fail to boot with error “Login request timed out”

High percentage of PVS provisioned desktop servers fail to boot. This is the sequence of the events: 1. The servers boot with an ISO. 2. The tsbbdm.bin is downloaded from the 1st PVS on the site. 3. The streaming process fails. 4. Error pops up :“Login request timed out”. Rebooting the PVS server...

Provisioning 2203 : Citrix PVS breaks with Microsoft OLEDB driver v19

When upgrading PVS 2203 servers to mitigate a Microsoft OLEDB driver vulnerability CVE-2023-36728, a customer incorrectly removed Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 and installed Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19. PVS Server 2203 cannot use Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 to communicate with the SQL server...

PVS target devices will not HA failover to another PVS server.

PVS target devices will not HA failover to another PVS server. Targets devices will freeze until the original server they were streaming from is available again. HA related configurations can be checked: The vdisk should beconfigured to use cache in ram with overflow to local device hard disk, an...

PVS server cannot logon database with Error "The Login is from an Untrusted Domain and Cannot ..."

PVS server console cannot be launched with error: "The database login failed." SQL server log error: "Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Integrated authentication." "SSPI handshake failed with error code 0x8009030c, state 14 while establishing a connection...

PVS Target Device Stuck at "Applying Computer Settings"

Provisioning Services PVS target device fail to boot. The target device stuck at applying computer settings stage and then trigger restart...

"The network logon service was not started" when logging onto PVS Target Device via Console

When logon PVS Target Device TD via console, it throws below error: "An attempt was made to logon but the network logon service was not started." TD VDI is unregistered status in Citrix Studio...

How to Load Balancing PVS server in NetScaler

This article summaries tips when configure Load balance for PVS server...

PVS Server Fails to Connect Farm: "An error occurred communicating with the server"

One PVS Server Fails to connect farm: "An error occurred communicating with the server" with event id 0, SoapService...

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:...

Unable to delete vDisks old versions on PVS 1912 LTSR

After merging versions of vDisk, unable to delete the old versions that were not in use anymore. The Delete option was grayed out. Following article: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX215264 did not help...

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...

Unable to provision new target devices when using Xendesktop Setup Wizard

Getting error message when we try to create Target devices using the XenDesktop wizard via PVS console. Error message "Cannot connect to the hypervisor at 'XXXXXX'. Failed to connect to the remote server. Unable to locate server. The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust...

PVS Target Device hangs/freezes when placed under isolation by Windows Defender

The PVS Target VM goes into a hung state...