[OST]French Canadian Keyboard not mapping properly to VDA from Mac

French Canadian special accent characters not displaying correctly when accessing a Windows 7 VDA from a Macclient device with Receiver for OSX 12.4. On a Mac with a French Canadian keyboard, the circumflex character ^ is not mapped as expected with Receiver Macversion 12 connecting to a Windows ...

EDT Security using DTLS

EDT Security using DTLS As from XenApp and XenDesktop 7.16 VDAs, DTLS is supported refer to the Windows OS VDA 7.16 Schannel library support for DTLS article. This means that backend connection between NetScaler and the VDA could optionally use DTLS. In addition, Receiver could optionally use DTL...

No Published resources launching : Error Access Denied

On the VDA server event viewer - "Event: 1050 Connection validation failed on domain for user for reason Unlicensed"...

Registration Request For Worker Was Rejected Due To An Unknown Error

New machines added to the XenDesktop Site failed to register. From the VDA Application logs it was found that the VDA wasdiscovering the Delivery Controller. On the Delivery Controller the below error is logged in the Application Event logs from Citrix Broker Service : Registration request for...

Receiver For iOS 7.2.3 Smart card users are unable to launch VDA 7.13 applications

This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only.Non-admin users must contact their company’s Help Desk/IT support team and can refer toCTX297149for more information Error: "The operation couldn't be completed HdxSdkErrorDomainSessionerror 8."...

Why RDP Connections To Citrix VDA Consume Citrix Connection Licenses?

NOTE: This only applies to on-prem CVAD deployments. This behavior does not apply to CVAD service. Q. Even if there is no ICA session established on CitrixVDA and only RDP session is established, still Citrix Client License is consumed. A. This is an expected behavior. When we install a VDA, it...

7.13 VDA install hangs installing prerequisites (App Layering)

VDA installation hangs at the prerequisite screen. Depending on your version of the VDA software, it should look similar to this:...

Microsoft Visual C redistributable fails to install during VDA installation

While installing VDA in a platform layer. The VDA has MS VC redistributable pre-reqs and the pre-reqs were failing to install...

How to disable the prompt "Authentication is required to set the network proxy used for downloading"

After logon to Linux VDA ICA session,you will receive a prompt "Authentication is required to set the network proxy used for downloading" as below, which would annoy users...

How to Configure Multi-Monitor Support on the Linux VDA

Table of Contents Overview Virtual session desktop Virtual session desktop size Allowing for different client monitor configurations Understanding memory usage on the Linux VDA Citrix multi-monitor configuration parameters MaxScreenNum MaxFbWidth MaxFbHeight Changing the Linux VDA multi-monitor...

Android devices cannot launch apps after updating VDA agent to version 7.11

After upgrading VDA to v7.11; Receiver for Android users cannot launch published Apps or Desktops. The following error message is observed on the Android devices: "The common name on the ID certificate is not what was expected" In addition, the receiver logs shall contain similar stack trace: 09-...

How to Troubleshoot Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) Registration Issues

Cloud Admins: Run the Cloud Health Check InstructionsandInstallationSelect Cloud Health Check from the dropdown OnPrem Admins: Run the Citrix Scout Health Introduction to Citrix Scout After running the CHC or Scout depending on your environment begin troubleshooting common root causes: 1. Check V...

CVE-2016-6276

Citrix Linux Virtual Delivery Agent aka VDA, formerly Linux Virtual Desktop before 1.4.0 allows local users to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2016-6276

Citrix Linux Virtual Delivery Agent aka VDA, formerly Linux Virtual Desktop before 1.4.0 allows local users to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2016-6276

CVE-2016-6276 affects Citrix Linux VDA (formerly Linux Virtual Desktop) prior to 1.4.0. A local attacker can escalate privileges to root via unspecified vectors. The vulnerability is addressed in version 1.4.0 and later; affected customers should upgrade to 1.4.0+ to mitigate. If exploiting detai...

CVE-2016-6276

Citrix Linux Virtual Delivery Agent aka VDA, formerly Linux Virtual Desktop before 1.4.0 allows local users to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors...

How to Use Middle Button Paste Between Linux VDA and Linux Receiver

Windows doesn’t support middle button paste while Linux supports this function. In Linux Receiver, we have option to support middle button past in Windows VDA which is enabled by default. Middle button paste doesn’t work correctly between Linux VDA and Linux Receiver by default settings...

How to Secure ICA Connection to VDA using SSL

To secure the ICA connection to VDA using SSL...

ICA Connection Stuck at "Connection in Progress" on StoreFront

When users launch an application from the Receiver for web, after getting the ICA file to the connection, the progress bar gets stuck at"Connection in Progress". The VDAs in this scenario are PVS provisioned machines, which works only for few initial hours post the reboot...

Windows Activation Errors After Upgrading to VDA 7.6 FP3 with PVD

Windows KMS activation might fail, or Windows will go to adeactivated state after some time. This occurs after upgrading to the version of PVD software included in the VDA 7.6 Feature Pack 3 release...