FAS Authentication fails with an error "The username or password is incorrect"

When we try launching application or desktop with FAS configured in the StoreFront, we get an error "The username or password is incorrect"...

How to Configure Internal Beacon for Single FQDN on StoreFront

This article describes how to Configure Internal Beacon for Single FQDN on StoreFront. Background When you access any URL in Citrix Receiver, it tries to resolve both internal and external beacons. First it will resolve the internal beacon, followed by the external beacon, and then Citrix Receive...

How to Create a Custom SSH banner for Netscaler

NetScaler : How to create a custom SSH banner...

Error: "Access to your company network is not currently available"

The following error is displayed when attempting to enroll a device or launching an application: "Access to your companynetwork is not currently available"...

Connecting XenServer to XenCenter with AD User credentials fails with incorrect username/password

When trying to add a new host to XenCenter console, the process fails with the message "XenCenter has encountered a problem connecting to this server" and "Incorrect username and/or password". A second XenServer pool using the same AD authentication configuration same domain, same AD groups can...

Target Device has Poor Performance and/or High Retries When Booting to a vDisk in Private Mode

When installing software in private mode it takes a very long time. Booting devices in Standard Mode works as expected Any maintenance version is very slow Best practices are put in place with Large send offloaddisabled on the target and PVS server anddisabled spanning tree on the switch vDisk is...

How to Configure Active/Active GSLB for XenDesktop

We often encounter customers with business continuity goals which require XenDesktop user VMs to be available to users in the event of a full site failure. A passive disaster recovery failover configuration is often not desirable because customers want to be able to leverage their hardware...

DNS queries not getting resolved from Primary node but gets resolved from Secondary node in HA pair

Nameservers are added on Netscaler using the "add dns nameserver" command or with GUI. From CLI in some cases, the DNS Lookup gets failed on the Primary Node but resolves well on the Secondary Non-working Primary We see that the DNS query Request is going to Netscaler DNS cache loop-back IP not t...

Commands Generated by XenMobile Wizard on NetScaler - SSL Offload

This article will help you when you need to run the wizard more than once for multiple XenMobile environments. This article assumes that you have the following items already installed and configured on the NetScaler: 1. NetScaler IP address NSIP 2. Subnet IP address SNIP 3. DNS Settings 4...

Not All PVS Servers Showing On The Replication Status Window

The PVS farm shows all PVS servers under the Servers node. However, when you click Show Replication Status ofthe vDisk does not show all PVS serverslisted. The other servers have the vDisk files .vhd, .pvp but do not show up in the list...

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...

Unable to log in to PVS console, error: The domain/user does not have access to the Farm

When a domain user tries to log in to the PVS console, gets error: "The domain/user does not have access to the Farm." The environment may or may not have multiple PVS sites and/or multiple domains. The domain user has been added to the "Farm Administrators" under the Security tab on the Farm...

How to Obtain SNMP MIB File for NetScaler SDX Appliance

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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 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 Profile Management: Temporary Profile Loading and Profile details not visible in Director

Temporary Profile Loading and Profile details not visible in Director...

Citrix Studio error "A working machine creation service could not be found"

While accessing the studio we are having the following error "A working machine creation service could not be found "...

LVDA is getting unregistered after the upgrade to 2402 LTSR

Unable to launch the Linux Published desktop with below error VDA is going to unregister state based on the VDA side logs and CTXVDA service is not starting...

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

How to proper configure AppProtection for screen capture...

No Secondary Node GUI Access, Intermittent issue due to /var over 100% Full

The graphical user interface GUI on the secondary system becomes unresponsive or inaccessible when the /var directory exceeds 100% disk utilization. This is primarily attributed to the /var/log/db/default/lbvserver folder occupying a high amount of storage space. Despite manual removal of files...

CVAD 2402 - Updating MCS non-profile based catalog to profile based

Boot Diagnostic setting needs to be applied to already created non profile based MCS random catalog. To inherit profile based settings from a VM source to an existing catalog which is non-profile based...

How to Migrate Session Recording Storage While Keeping Old Recordings

The customer is planning a cutover of Session Recording storage. They would like to add the new storage location for any new session recordings, while maintaining the older storage location for older recordings as these are kept for a required retention period...

CWA smartcard logon error 'Can’t read smart card' on client with SIM card

There is a client with 2 smart cards . A physical smart card and an integrated eSIM . When CWA Windows tries to autenticate with smartcard the user gets an error that says "Can't read smart card. Please contact your IT administrator" . If we remove the SIM card from the client , the authenticatio...

OnPrem | CVAD 1912 upgrade throws an error "The license server doesn't support the hosting network"

During CVAD upgrade from 1912 version to 2203 CU3 version, we receive the error "The license server doesn't support the hosting network" and upgrade fails...

uberAgent - data volume

How much data volume does the agent produce? Can I reduce the data volume?...

Audio not working on VDA when reconnecting from Ipad

After CWA 2412 IOS audio stops working randomly on Ipad after reconnectng to the session. With Adaptive audiodisabled we got audio about with 50% of reconnects. With Adaptive audioenabled audio playback worked every single time we reconnected to the desktop...

Linux Virtual Delivery Agent - ICA session crashes when resizing

When resizing the ICA Session Window, users might see that the session crashes...

uberAgent fails to start due to invalid license signature

Attempting to start the uberAgent service results in a failure. The uberAgent.log file shows messages similar to the following: 2024-12-06 13:50:25.560 +0100,ERROR,WORKGROUP,SRV2016$,6372,LicenseCheck,Failed to read or verify the license file: C:\ProgramData\vast limits\uberAgent\License...

CVAD: Logon Duration is not reported if "Do not process the legacy run list" group policy is enabled

Logon Duration is not logged in Citrix Director if "Do not process the legacy run list" group policy is enabled...

uberAgent - Splunk dashboard does not display information about applications and desktops from DaaS

Splunk dashboard CVAD/DaaS Applications & Desktops does not display any information about published applications and desktops for DAAS. uberAgent.log file located in C:\Windows\Temp on the machine used for Citrix Cloud monitoring shows the errors: 2025-03-05 12:11:08.145...

Citrix Provisioning - Unable to add a new server to the Farm

Configuration Wizard shows warnings when admin tries to add a new PVS Server to the Farm. Error displayed: Errors have occured during the configuration process ConfigurationWizard.log located in C:\ProgramData\Citrix\Provisioning Services on the PVS Server shows the errors:...

Daas unable to create host connection with error: "URL invalid"

Unable to create a host connection to AWS EC2 and on-premises hypervisors XenServer, VMWare, etc. with invalid URL or authentication failure when a proxy has been configured for the Network Service account...

Citrix Printing - Printer properties local settings is grayed out

Printer properties local settings grayed out after Citrix VDA server upgraded to Windows 2019 and Citrix upgraded to 2402...

Application launch is stuck at the stage "Please wait for the Local Session Manager"

Application launch is stuck at the stage "Please wait for the Local Session Manager". Launch is initiated using FAS enabled storefront URL. No error message displayed to user. No credential prompt. The launch works fine when using storefront URL without FAS...

Citrix Virtual Desktop - Printers cannot be created if one of printer server is offline

There are 2 printer servers, each with 6 printers. Apply the printers with Citrix policy "Printer Assignment". If one printer server is offline, other online printers cannot be created in the ICA session desktop...

Data lost upon configuring folder redirection for existing user profiles

When Desktop folder redirection is configured for existing user profiles, User Profile Management UPM only transfers individual files from the user profile's Desktop folder to the redirected location, resulting in the deletion of all subfolders and their contents...

Driver Disk for Intel i40e 2.25.11 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 LTSR

Who should install this driver disk? Customers running the Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 LTSR release who use Intel's i40e driver and wish to use the latest version of the following: Driver Module| Driver Type| Version ---|---|--- i40e| Ethernet/NIC| 2.25.11 Issues resolved in this...

Microsoft Security Update Validation Report September 2024

Microsoft’s September 2024 security updates have passed Citrix testing the updates are listed below. The testing is not all-inclusive; all tests are executed against English only environments and issues may still be found upon implementation. Follow best practices for testing and installing...

CVAD wizard fails with device name # is invalid when PVS-Accelerator is enabled

We are using XenServer 8.0 and PVS Accelerator the CVAD wizard will fail to create new devices. When an AOT trace is captured and analyzed you will see the following errors in the logs: PVSDllHypervisorPlatformsAO,,0,,5,Information,"XenAPI failure, error description:...

Error: Connection Failed - Citrix Endpoint Management with Certificate Based Authentication

Warning Event ID = 39 or ID = 41 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 before February 11,2025. "Connection failed" will be shown by clicking Test Connection in PKI Entities after February 11, 2025...

Citrix DAAS Local Host Cache

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to Local Host Cache / High Availability mode for Citrix Desktops-as-a-Service DaaS Top Support Knowledge Content CTX312157 - Citrix DaaS in an Outage State and Local Host Cache CTX272155 - Enable Local Host Cache with...

Citrix Endpoint Management: Database issues

Introduction Citrix offers a series of articles dedicated to troubleshooting various database issues, such as connectivity problems, performance bottlenecks, and data corruption. By enabling quick diagnosis and resolution, these articles help minimize downtime and enhance the reliability and...

Xenserver Configuration: Comprehensive Guide

Introduction This article will direct you to resources that provide guidance on configuring basic pools for XenServer Top Knowledge Content Basic Configuration guide for a XenServer Pool CTX128391 - How to Remove a Server from a XenServer Pool that Contains Only One Host CTX216127 - How to change...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop - Peripherals (USB, Printers , Drives etc.)

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to Peripherals - USB, Printers , Drives etc. Top Support Knowledge Content Printing Issues CTX227534 - Citrix Printing Quick Start Guide CTX232031 - How to use Citrix Policy to Set a Default Session Printer CTX140208 -...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops: Authentication

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles and Product Documents related to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Authentication Methods. The most commonly used support articles and guides are below. It is recommended that all customers refer to the product documentation for...

Netscaler ADM Issues

Introduction This article provides a list of Knowledge Base resources on how to investigate, troubleshoot, and prevent the most common issues with connectivity of NetScaler Console Agent to NetScaler Console Service. Overview of the Issue NetScaler Agent helps the on-prem NetScalers to connect to...

How to Change XML Service Port When Not Using Default Port

This article describes how to change the XML service port if you are not using the default port in XenDesktop 7.x. and CVAD...

Importing an Existing vDisk in Provisioning Services Console Causes Error

When importing a vDisk using theProvisioning Services PVSServer Console, the error “Invalid disk file for . Cannot add disk” appears. The SoapServer.log displays the following text, if Info level logging is enabled: INFO Mapi.Command - Get UndefinedDisks: Disk is not valid, needs to be a base .vh...

Applying Security Hotfixes to XenServer on NetScaler SDX Appliance with Software Release 9.3 and 10

This article describes how to apply the hotfixes required to remediate the security vulnerabilities detailed in security bulletin CTX134876 -Citrix NetScaler SDX Multiple Security Updates. Determining the Version of XenServer on the NetScaler SDX Appliance To determine what version of XenServer y...

VMware vSphere 5.5 - Citrix Known Issues

Citrix is committed to ensuring compatibility with the latest VMware products. Citrix supports VMware vSphere 5.5, vSphere 5.5 Update 1, vSphere 5.5 Update 2, and vSphere 5.5 Update 3. This article outlines issues and their known solutions that users of vSphere 5.5, vSphere 5.5 Update 1, vSphere...