WEM Admin Console Error: "Specified Infrastructure Server seems to be offline or have a wrong database configuration. Please check configuration and try again"

After performing in-place upgrade of the WEM Broker, The WEM Admin console gives the following error when trying to connect to the WEM site:. "Specified Infrastructure Server seems to be offline or have a wrong database configuration. Please check configuration and try again" Plus, when opening t...

Management CPU Increases Periodically In Citrix ADC

When monitoring CPU utilization on the NetScaler, you will periodically notice Management CPU CPU 0 reporting 100% Utilization. This will most likely appear cyclic recurring at a fairly regular interval...

New SCSI Controller Causes Windows to Prompt for a Reboot After Installing the Device

When powering on a machine after changing to a new host, you are immediately presented with a dialog box saying: "You must restart your computer to apply these changes"...

How to Create a Perl Based Custom Monitor on NetScaler

This article describes how to create a Perl based Custom Monitor on NetScaler. Background The NetScaler appliance has a lot of different monitors inbuilt, but there are use cases these monitors do not cover. For this NetScaler supports monitors of type USER, which brings the possibility to run...

Error Cannot get apps from the store on Storefront

Upgraded Storefront from 3.9 to 3.11. During the test conducted I am able to successfully: - Log in via browser Chrome internally and externally and launch applications. - Open Citrix Receiver internally, log in and launch apps. What no longer works is external receiver access. On launching the...

App Layering/Unidesk: If user logs in before Office activation script runs, Office licensing will break

When a user logs in and runs an Office component, they may immediately see "Please wait while setup configures microsoft office", which will run a repair function, which will fail. If they have Lync installed, then that Office component might run immediately without any interaction from them. Or...

"Incorrect credentials" for device enrollment.

when setting up some accounts on mobile devices, YES can not be selected for device enrollment. When YES is selected perpetual error of incorrect credentials is received no matter how many times the username/password are typed and typed correctly...

PVS target and server version compatibility

Q: Can a PVS environment be configured with PVS target version higher than the PVS server version? A: No, The PVS target version should be the same as the PVS server version Configuring PVS environment with PVS target version higher than the PVS server version may work however if there is an issu...

XenMobile Policy State Pending or Failed on Windows Devices

This purpose of this article is to help XenMobile administrator troubleshoot issues related to windows policy deployment failures and also provide additional information on settings up XenMobile server with right values...

Web-camera redirection not working with Windows N and KN editions

Customers have reported to Citrix Technical Support that web-cameras are not being redirected into ICA sessions if the VDA is of type: Windows 7 N, Windowns 8 N or Windows 10 N or KN. What is Windows N and KN? https://support.microsoft.com/en-ie/help/11529/what-is-a-windows-7-n-edition- Labeled "...

How to Configure Multiple License Types within a Single XenApp and XenDesktop Site

A XenApp and XenDesktop license specifies 3 things: Product, Edition, and Model. Previously, each XenApp and XenDesktop site could only consume one type of license product and model at a time. The 7.14 release of XenApp and XenDesktop now includes support for multiple license products and models...

Profile Management: File Type Association (FTA) Fails to Roam on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

On Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new security mechanism to check settings of default applications in the registry. Occasionally, the Windows Profile Service changes the security settings of the user registry entry. As a result, the settings of default applications are...

Error "License cannot be retrieved. Either the NetScaler..." When Adding NetScaler Instance to NetScaler MAS Inventory

When trying to add NetScaler instance to inventory it fails with the following error message: "Trying to connect to "IPoftheNetScaler" Error: License cannot be retrieved. Either the NetScaler is unresponsive or the login credentials are incorrect."...

Citrix Store Front MMC console crashes with RSA Authentication Agent 1.0 installed.

Even after uninstalling the RSA Authentication Agent 1.0 we get following error in event viewer logs: Error while creating the Citrix StoreFront Snap-in. Microsoft.Practices.Unity.ResolutionFailedException: Resolution of the dependency failed, type =...

StoreFront 3.5 to 3.8 upgrade fails.

In the MSI logs we get following error: An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for citrix.deliveryservices/protocolTransitionSettings: Could not load file or assembly 'Citrix.DeliveryServices.ProtocolTransition.Configuration, Version=2.6.0.0, OR An error occurred creating th...

Prerequisite Failure Error When Upgrading from StoreFront 2.6 to 3.0

Prerequisite failure error when upgrading from StoreFront 2.6 to 3.0: An error occurred during installation. Please ensure all the required prerequisites have been installed and run the installer again...

UPM Failing for account with error "The specified account does not exist."

Users not receiving a UPM profile when logging into application. When logging in UPM fails, within the UPM logs we only see the following logged :- 2016-08-25;14:11:45.659;INFORMATION;EXTRANET;x9027690;3;15276;CADUser::Init: Determined user and DNS domain name: ,...

How to Use NetScaler SNIP for Authentication (AAA) Server Communication

This article describes how to use NetScaler SNIP for authentication server communication. Background Authentication server communication on NetScaler is by default done using the NetScaler IPNSIP. So, apart from it being used for management purposes, it is also used as a source IPfor LDAP, RADIUS...

BSOD Error: "STOP 0x0000007E CVhdMp.sys with Kaspersky antivirus

When booting from the Network, to run the Imaging Wizard or simply to boot from a vDisk, the following Blue Screen message is displayed: STOP 0x0000007E CVhdMp.sys Error: BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized...

How to Identify the devices representing VHD files from iostat output ?

When measuring i/o performance of a VM, it is necceary to understand the i/o happening at the vdi layer. This article will help in relating the devices in iostat output to corresponding VHD...

How to reset root password of NetScaler SDX

This article describes how to reset the root password of NetScaler SDX running on XenServer. Note: If you are a XenServer user, do not refer to this article. Instead, see the XenServer documentation. Background For the XenServer component of a NetScaler SDX, a lost root password can be overwritte...

CPU/Memory usage of some servers shows blank in XenCenter

CPU/Memory usage of some servers shows blank in XenCenter...

Secure Hub could not connect to Store

Some users unable to open Store, getting error message Store could not connect...

Error: "1816 (0x718) ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA - Unknown error" when trying to join XenServer to a Domain

If you are trying to add a Resource pool to to a specific OU in Active Directory you will get theerror : "Could not enable external authentication: 1816 0x718 ERRORNOTENOUGHQUOTA - Unknown error"...

How to Export and Import StoreFront Subscription Database on StoreFront 3.6

This article explains how to export and import a StoreFront subscription database on Storefront 3.6. Background The previous versions of StoreFront had different commands to export and import a StoreFront subscription database. The previous commands are now obsolete. The following is the previous...

License Server Crashes After Upgrade to Latest Version When Using XenApp Fundamentals 6.0

Customer installs the Citrix Licensing portion of XenApp Fundamentals 6.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2.The customer then upgrades the Citrix Licensing Server to the newest version from the downloads section ofCitrix's website.After theupgradethe customer then completes theinstall of XenApp...

How to Define VMware vSphere User Privileges for XenApp and XenDesktop

This article lists the user privileges required to successfully create and manage VMware vSphere machines through XenApp and XenDesktop. Note :Create AppDisksandDelete AppDisks sections of this article are valid onlyforVMware vSphere minimum version 5.5 and XenApp and XenDesktop minimum version 7...

Error: "Page Can't be displayed" When Connecting to StoreFront Through NetScaler Gateway

The following error is displayed when connecting to StoreFront through NetScaler Gateway: Page Can't be displayed...

FAQ: Upgrading Operating System on Server Running StoreFront

Q: Is upgrading the operating system version on a server running StoreFront supported? A : Upgrading the operating system version on a server running StoreFront is not supported. Citrix recommends that you install StoreFront on a new installation of the operating system. All the servers in a...

How to Restore NetScaler SDX to Factory Default Settings

This article describes how to restore NetScaler SDX to factory default settings. Important Points to Note 1. The procedure mentioned in this article is for troubleshooting or a last resort step only. The recommend procedure to restoreNetScaler SDX to factory default settings is using SVM GUI . 2...

Error: 403 forbidden | Post authentication when accessing through NetScaler Gateway

We see 403 forbidden error post authentication when accessing the apps through Netscaler Gateway...

Error: "Cannot start app 'App/Desktop Name'" on StoreFront 3.5

After successfully upgrading to StoreFront 3.5, users are unable to launch applications or desktops with the following error: Cannot start app "App/Desktop Name"...

How Do I Configure Framehawk Support on NetScaler Gateway?

This article describes how to configure Framehawk support on NetScaler Gateway. Use Case With the increase of mobile users adopting tablets and smartphones, it is critical to ensure a rich virtual application and desktop user experience on Wi-Fi and cellular networks where network quality may be...

How to Perform Reverse Imaging on a Provisioning Services Target Device for Windows and its Applicable Usages

When a Provisioning Services Target Device for Windows is booted from Provisioning Services across the network, it is not possible to perform any software updates that affect the network stack, since the network stack changes will drop the connection to the vDisk. The following provides a list of...

How to Display Custom Error Pages by Using NetScaler Responder Policies

This article contains information about configuring Responder policies that redirect user requests to custom error pages during a maintenance period of a back end web server farm. Background You can create custom error page and redirect the user requests to it. For example, you might want to host...

NetScaler Gateway Stuck at cgi/setclient After Log On

NetScaler Gateway stuck at cgi/setclient after log on...

NetScaler Console -14.1 43.50: Scheduled 2 stage upgrade fails for NetScaler in HA.

Upgrade Jobs fails for NetScaler when we configure scheduled 2 stage upgrade process from NetScaler Console. The jobs seem to create several subtasks that are failing. It completes upgrade on 1 NetScaler but does not upgrade the second one. This happens after upgrading the NetScaler Console to...

ELM 2409 || SMB share not working after ELM upgrade from 2403 to 2409

After migrating to new release and upgrading to version 2409 the SMB share is not longer connecting, this appears to be causing lots of crashfiles to generate which overt he week caused the applayering platform to stop functioning all together until the crash files were cleared...

[NetScaler-AAA] The Radius action cannot be performed in nFactor auth

In nFactor auth, the Radius action is the second factor but cannot be performed. nFactor flow is simple and is like below: AAA vServer: DomainRadiusvS Login Schema: DualAuthSchema Authn Policy: DomainLDAPPol Expression: true Action: LDAPAct Next Factor if Success: RadiusPollable Login Schema:...

NetScaler Reset with Code 9222

Users report being unable to access a specific application. Investigation reveals that the NetScaler is resetting the packet with Reset Code 9222 when the server responds to the client’s request...

Citrix Virtual Desktop - Username show "-" in the Citrix Studio after launching Server Desktop

After user session Launched, the "current username" in Citrix Studio shows "-"...

Host ID shows the same on the all the MPX 9100

Host ID shows the same on the all the MPX 9100...

Screen sharing doesn't work with QuickAssist or other apps when AppProtection is enabled

How to proper configure AppProtection for screen capture...

Domain passthrough with ZeroTrust VPN users get "cannot start your session" via Azure load balancer

When you access Store URL and click on "Log on" you see the error - cannot start your session. wait a few minutes and try to logon again. If you still experience problems, contact your help desk. When you click on the "OK" button multiple times, eventually it goes away. More details on deployment...

Citrix FAS Cloud: Session logon hangs after password change when launching application

User has the password expired or "set at next logon" flag is set. However, user is able to login to workspace due to the cached credentials being used. When user launches an app they are prompted to change their AD password. Once this is complete, message to confirm password change is successful,...

Application firewall Logs are not logged locally in NetScaler

NetScaler appfw logs are being forwarded to the syslog server as expected. However, the logs are not being logged or displayed in the local /var/log/ns.log. Config: add audit syslogPolicy sysadv1 true sys1bind audit syslogGlobal -policyName sysadv1 -priority 100 -globalBindType APPFWGLOBA Before...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops - 3DExperience application crashes randomly inside ICA Session

Users might see that the 3DExperience.exe application from Dassault Systems crash randomly inside the ICA Session. The problem started after a major network outage...

Citrix UPM - How to troubleshoot instances where the Citrix UPM Service stops unexpectedly

Prevent Citrix Profile Management from unexpectedly stopping, thereby ensuring a consistent and reliable user experience within the virtualized environment...

Daas II Cloud II Unable to launch One Drive automatically within VDI using SSO

One Drive is not auto launching within VDI using Single Sign On...

Netscaler-14.1- How NetScaler handles expect:100 continue header

When NetScaler gets an HTTP request that includes the Expect: 100-Continue header, it sends a 100 Continue response back to the client. This step is important because NetScaler’s Application Firewall needs to review the full request—including the body—before passing it on to the backend server...