Unable to open PVS Console after upgrade to 7.17

Unable to open PVS Console after upgrade to PVS 7.17 with error An unhandled exception occurred and the application will exit. Please report the information below. Press Ctrl-C to copy the data to the clipboard. Method not found: '!!0 System.Array.Empty'. Stack Trace: at...

Error: "This Operation Cannot be Performed Because a VDI is in Use by Some Other Operation"

Starting vm fail unable to find the disk OR Unable to start a VM error : "this operation cannot be performed because a VDI is in use by some other operation" OR Unable to start a VM , error : "The SR failed to complete the operation" OR Unable to start the VM , error : "This operation cannot be...

Native Receiver Access to Internal and External Store with Always-on NetScaler Gateway VPN Fails

User is connected to LAN and Receiver is accessing StoreFront directly or via LB. When moveing from LAN to Internet, Always-on VPN gets connected automatically. Now trying to launch an app results in error "There was a problem connecting: Store name". Trying to refresh the Receiver results in err...

What are Hung Threads and why is the StreamProcess terminating?

On PVS Servers StreamProcess Hung Threads can lead to poor performance, constant target re-connections and even full outages. These Hung Threads are usually detected by looking at the Windows Application Event logs. The following Events will be recorded: Level| Source| Id| Text ---|---|---|---...

Receiver install error "DVCRenderingAdapter.dll failed to register"

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 to CTX297149 for more information. While installing Receiver, users may encounter an error like: "DVCRenderingAdapter.dll failed to...

NetScaler SD-WAN vWAN: How to configure NAT for Traffic from Internet to LAN (Outside to Inside)

To configure Destination NAT for Traffic from Internet to LANOutside to Inside Destination NAT changes thedestination address in IP header of a packet. It may also change thedestination port in the TCP/UDP headers.The typical usage of this is to redirect incoming packets with a destination of a...

Issue: Unable to map the network drive via SDWAN from Windows 10 Clients

Symptoms: – Below Errors might be seen when Client at Branch office tries to map the Network Drives from Win 10 machines. Errors: – SMB3 acceleration is disabled/unsupported on the partner unit – Signed Session. Reason: Secure Connection to the peer unit does not exist. To configure secure partne...

Troubleshooting ICA_RTT Issues on NetScaler MAS

Troubleshooting ICARTT issues on NetScaler MAS. Background ICA RTT can be thought of as a measurement of the screen lag that a user experiences while interacting with an application hosted in a session on a XenApp or XenDesktop server. ICA RTT is different from Network RTT, which is the detected...

NetScaler MAS Analytics Insight is Working But Some User Sessions or Data is Not Captured

NetScaler MAS Analytics Insight is working but some user sessions or data is not captured...

Control the Local Launch of Applications on Published Desktops with VPrefer

Feature Description Thisfeature was designedto control how published applications are treated when launched from a published desktop session double-hop scenario When a user attempts to launch a published app from a published desktop session, a Receiver for Windows policy controls whether the app...

How to suppress Citrix Receiver credentials prompt

This article describes how to suppress the Username\Password prompt in Citrix Receiver for Windows. Note : This article is applicable forReceiver for Windows 4.4.1000and later. Credential prompt as shown in the preceding screen shot will be displayed when a store has been configured at the Add...

Enlightened Data Transport Not working with Double Hop DMZ scenario

EDT requires policy on the XenDesktop to be enabled and DTLS on the NetScaler to be ON. Also, StoreFront needs to be minimum Version 3.8 and Citrix Receiver at 14.7. So all the requirements are met. At theXenDesktop Policy for "HDX Adaptive Transport" is set to "preferred", still connections fail...

How to gracefully shutdown SD WAN

This articles talks about the procedure on how to shutdown the SD WAN when there is any maintenance activity in place in the DC or Branch...

High Mgmt CPU due to nsaaad process

High management CPU CPU spiked to 100% causing VIPs and LDAP server configuration on NS to go down Issue may be intermittent...

App Layering: Machine Time on a Published Image is Wrong at First Boot

When booting a published machine for instance, the template VM for MCS the first time, the local time for Windows is wrong by hours. The timezone is correct, but the initial time is set incorrectly for that time zone. This can break Windows and Office activation, and potentially cause other...

How to Troubleshoot EDT Connections

Adaptive transport is a data transport mechanism for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. It is faster, can scale, improves application interactivity, and is more interactive on challenging long-haul WAN and internet connections. Adaptive transport maintains high server scalability and efficient use...

PVS Console | Fails to load farm\site\server details with error 'Server communication timeout'

The PVS Console throws following error while expanding farm\site\server details: 'Server communication timeout' MMC Console timeouts may also be seen. Now consider a Large AD Environment, where there are multiple Domains and the PVS Administrator User account used to access the PVS Console is par...

Synchronization State for WEM Agents shows question mark (?) on WEM Administration Console

Synchronization State for WEM Agents shows a question mark ? or red crosson the WEM Administration console...

Citrix *Client Folder Redirection* (CFR) is not *Folder Redirection*

Client Folder Redirection, Folder Redirection and Special Folder Redirection are not the same. Client Folder Redirection CFR provides access to client-side folders in an ICA session while not having to redirect complete client-side drives. Support throughClient Drive Mapping CDM has enabled...

Error "Hypervisor did not return the MAC address for this VM:Failed to connect to the remote server" in PVS Console

Getting an error message when attempting to create a vdisk within the vDisk Update Management in PVS console. Getting "Error Hypervisor VM Error. Hypervisor did not return the MAC address for this VM:Failed to connect to the remote server. Unable to locate server. The underlying connection was...

How to recreate Local Host Cache on Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops

Citrix ConfigSync Service outputs Event ID 505 errors periodically, "The Citrix Config Sync Service failed an import."...

Testing HA Failover on NetScaler SD-WAN

Site level HA works in a way independent to the virtual path state of the site with other sites. Meaning if the physical links are down while one appliance is serving as active, then it will be the same case for the standby as well as the same physical link will be used by standby too and hence...

WEM Agent does not place icons on desktop at first logon

When first logging into a VDA, the WEM Agent does not push out all the Desktop Icons that are assigned to the user. The WEM agent must be manually refreshed to make the Icons appear: Initial Login with no application Icons: Manually refresh the WEM Agent by right clicking the Wem Agent Icon from...

WEM 4.3 -Folder redirection discrepancy between "Quick Access" and "This PC"

When configuring WEM USV Settings for folder redirection inside WEM Administration Console, folder redirection settings are not properly applied per settings on WEM Agent machine. FOR EXAMPLE: All of the following folders, should be redirected and have been configured this way via the WEM...

WEM Agent Error: "Connection state changed - WEM agent has detected that the network connection has been lost. Click here to refresh your environment settings"

Random WEM Agent machinesintermittently display the following pop up error message: "WEM Agent Error: "Connection state changed - WEM agent has detected that the network connection has been lost. Click here to refresh your environment settings"...

WEM 4.3 - Intermittent crashes of Norskale Broker Service.exe on WEM Broker

Norskale Broker Service.exe on WEM Broker randomly crashes on all WEM Brokers present. Crash dump analysis of this service shows the following: PROCESSNAME: Norskale Broker Service.exe ERRORCODE: NTSTATUS 0xc0000374 - A heap has been corrupted. EXCEPTIONCODE: NTSTATUS 0xc0000374 - A heap has been...

Error "Access is Denied" When Launching Published Applications or Desktops

Unable to launch published Desktop or apps. Error: Access denied Following event logs can be seeing on the VDAs: Source: Citrix Desktop Service Event ID: 1050 Message: Connection validation failed on domain domain.local for user username for reason "Unlicensed" Studio reports all licenses being...

How to disable SSL protocols on XenMobile server

XenMobile Server by default supports SSL protocols TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2. We can disable or enable the protocols from the XMS CLI console...

Unable to import App Layering OS Layer to ELM from vSphere

After creating a vSphere connector and selected the host and VM to import into the Enterprise Layer Manager ELM as an OS layer, the operation will timeout within a few minutes. vSphere shows an exporting task stuck at 0% before timing out...

App Layering/Unidesk V2: Migrating a Unidesk System to a Different VMware vCenter

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Best Practices for Deployment of CITRIX SD-WAN

To configure the management access of SDWAN in a secure manner. https://docs.netscaler.com/en-us/citrix-sd-wan Citrix SD-WAN editions are typically deployed in an enterprise private network. We recommend that you deploy the Citrix SD-WAN solution wherein the management IPs are accessible only fro...

How to Restrict NetScaler Management Interfaces with ACLs

This article describes how to lock down the NetScaler management interfaces with ACLs. Background Customers wanting to run a secure environment should limit access to the NetScaler management interface as a best practice. Ideally, the management interfaces should be on isolated networks physical ...

Generic USB Redirection after installing Citrix Receiver 12.7 for Mac on macOS High Sierra

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 to CTX297149 for more information. New users after installing Citrix Receiver 12.7 or above for Mac on macOS High Sierra when launching...

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"...

WEM SQL Database is growing to over 20 GB

WEM SQL Database is growing to over 20 GB ---...

Android Secure Mail Error "THE VPN SERVICE HAS FAILED TO CONNECT"

Secure Mail users receive an error : The VPN service has failed to connect. In the Secure mail logs we find : "2017-03-21T15:30:42.260+0800","MDX-ErrorCodes","WARNING 3","ErrorCodes = 507 507 = Vpn "2017-03-21T15:30:43.946+0800","MDX-ErrorCodes","WARNING 3","ErrorCodes = 602 602 = VpnFailedOption...

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...

How to block MAM URL access through Browser

Accessing the MAM URL directly through browser prompts the users to enter their AD Credentials. It acts as a tool for users to validate their credentials Username/Password. Some might treat this as a Security Violation. This article helps you to restrict the Browser access to MAM URL NetScaler...

Unable to login to mdx.xm.cloud.com

This article summarizes on how to deal with issue related to mdx.xm.cloud.com portal when we get the errror "Account already in use"...

Hot-add of Digest Enabled Disk Not Supported

The CachePoint Appliance could not create the boot image of Windows 10. Error is: Failed to reattach disks to the desktop that were temporarily attached to the CachePoint Appliance. In vSphere a vm reconfigure task displays, "Hot-add of digest enabled disk not supported"...

User Layer is Out of Space. How Do I Find Out Where the Space Has Gone?

If your user layer is out of space and you need to figure out where the space is going as opposed to simply expanding the User Layer disks with https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX222095, orhttps://support.citrix.com/article/CTX226688for Unidesk version 2, you will need to examine the User Laye...

How to enable or disable self help portal in XenMobile server

This article provides instruction on how to enable or disable access to the Self Help Portal SHP...

How to change management IP of SVM from LOM

Change the SDX Management Service SVM IP via the LOM when network access to SVM IP and XenServer Hypervisor is not available...

Receiver for Windows 4.8, error "The specified module could not be found."

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 to CTX297149 for more information. Unable to launch Published Desktops, it fails to launch with error"The specified module could not be...

Citrix App Layering: Recipe IBM SPSS 21

Licensing Considerations The following information should be discussed with your IBM licensing contacts: Concurrent user network licensing for IBM SPSS packages. Usage of SPSS in a virtualized environment requires a licensing “addendum” and further cost. A physical server with current Java versio...

NetScaler SD-WAN Troubleshooting Guide

Citrix SD-WAN, formerly NetScaler SD-WAN This articles helps you diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve common issue encountered on NetScaler SD-WAN. Note : This is a master overview article. The detailed information for each topic is covered in its individual articles. CTX236987 - Information to Ke...

XenServer Host Console Not Visible On Some High-Resolution Monitors

Due to resolution incompatibility issues on some high-resolution monitors the host console may not be visible when booted The following monitors have been confirmed to have this issue: Dell, U2312HM, 23", 16:9, 1920 x 1080 Philips, 226V6QSB6, 21.5", 16:9, 1920X1080 AOC, I2280SWD, 22", 16:9,...

F5 with StoreFront session timeout closing active sessions

When the StoreFront session times out, it's closing active ICA sessions. We found the issue is only happening when authenticating via F5 frontend. When Authenticating via F5. After 20 minutes the Citrix Desktop and storefront session shuts down. After 17 minutes, a 3 mins countdown starts in the...

Citrix Receiver for Windows shows Authentication Window or Receiver prompts periodically

Citrix Receiver for Windows authentication prompt and/or receiver prompt pops up randomly...

VPP Apps Does Not Appear on XenMobile Console After Accidental Deletion of the app.

Deleted VPP applications does not sync with XenMobile Server automatically. Summary VPP is an Apple Enterprise program to distribute corporate App license to device through MDM. Citrix XenMobile makes use of Apple's API to associate / disassociate license based which are distributed through...