License Server Error: No Licenses Available for Specified Server Type

When the XenServer is attempted to be licensed you may come across error "The license-server did not issue a license for server "servername" because there were no license for the specified type available"...

Any Write cache mode which involves the Target Device local HDD reverts to server side caching

When trying to configure the write cache, any selection that involves the local HDD of the target device would fail. Cache on device ram - works Cache on server - works Ram with overflow - fails to server Cache on Device HD - fails to server...

Overview of Windows activation with KMS server

Sometimes after properly following the preparation steps, on start up the Operating System shows only 3 days remaining to be activated, or Office prompts users to activate now, or similar. This doesn’t necessarily indicate an issue with PVS image preparation, or with the streamed image. It’s up t...

Published Windows Explorer does not retain icon size and layout settings with Profile Management enabled.

Under certain circumstances, users may find that some Windows Explorer settings are not retained after closing a published Windows Explorer session. These settings are saved in the registry under HKEYCURRENTUSER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags...

XenCenter System Alerts

The following table displays the system events/conditions that will a trigger an alert to be displayed in XenCenter System Alerts window. XenCenter System Alerts You can view a range of different types of alert in theSystem Alertswindow, including: Performance alerts. Performance alerts may be...

How to connect to a console of a Linux VM from XenServer Host Console

Sometimes it might be necessary to connect to the console of VM via command line when SSH and XenCenter console is not working. This article describe the process for it...

How to Capture a Network Trace from a XenServer Physical Interface, Virtual Bridge, and VM Virtual Interface

This article describes how to capture a network trace from a XenServer physical interface, Virtual Bridge, and Virtual Machine Virtual Interface...

Reset the start count of MCS catalog after the catalog has already been created

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Loopback Options When Load Balancing StoreFront Server Group Using NetScaler

In previous versions of StoreFront such as 2.6 or older, Citrix recommended that you manually modify the hosts file on each StoreFront server to map the fully qualified domain name FQDN of the load balancer to the loopback address or the IP address of the specific StoreFront server. This ensures...

Generate Security Keys warning on Storefront management console

Question:Is the warning to generate new security keys related to the Server certificate used for storefront base URL? Answer: No, this warning is not related to the server certificate used for storefront base URL. This indicates that the Self-Signed certificates generated by storefront are expire...

Windows Modern Apps are not launching with Profile Management enabled

Certain Windows 8.x Modern Apps such as PC Settings are not launching with Profile management UPM enabled. If UPM is disabled via Policy and a new user logs on to the PC, the Modern App for PC Settings launches as expected...

How to Configure a Store Using PowerShell

This article lists and explains the commands to create and configure a store using PowerShell...

How content-length of a HTTP response is handled when rewrite is in use on NetScaler

When using rewrite policy with priority 120 on NetScaler it can be noticed that Content-Length header is misspelled in the response. To alter this behavior we can use another rewrite policywith priority 100 that has an action that can never be true. Note: Priority 120 and 100 is taken as examples...

Smart Card Authentication Fails with HTTP Error 403 Forbidden

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Propagation Fails with error "Failed to get the end status of the server configuration update."

"Failed to get the end status of the server configuration update." "Failure to notify of configuration update." "An erorr occurred running the command : 'Add-DSFeatureInstances'...

How to change the XenServer Pool master role from XenServer Console

In certain situation like Master server becoming unresponsive, we may need to changethe XenServer Pool master role. This article illustrates how to perform that from XenServer Console...

How disk space /var is allocated for VPX provisioned on SDX

The objective of this article is to explain how the disk space is allocated for VPX provisioned on SDX appliance...

Supported Architectures Between NetScaler and XenMobile Server

This article has information on supported architectures between NetScaler and XenMobile Server. Note : You should choose between HTTPS or HTTP no mix and match supported. HTTPS Deployment Type| NetScaler Load Balancing Method| SSL Re-encryption| XenMobile Server Port ---|---|---|--- MDM| SSL...

How to Export a VDISK with Versions

Export existing vDisk from PVS vDisk Store and import as a new vDisk...

Receiver 4 Upgrade Causing UAC Prompt

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 We are offering Receiver from our SCCM 2012 Self-Service Application Catalog. We followed...

Citrix ADC Networking and VLAN Best Practices

The ADC uses VLANs to determine which interface should be used for which traffic. In addition, ADC does not participate in Spanning Tree. Without the proper VLAN configuration, the ADC is unable to determine which interface to use and it can function more like a HUB than a switch or router in the...

Error Windows API: There is not enough space on the disk. Error number 0xE00000070

When trying to merge a vDisk, the following error is seen: The error is not seen when adding a vDisk or a new vDisk version to the store, just when merging the vDisk versions. Windows Explorer shows a sufficient amount of free space for the merge process in the vDisk store and running the...

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...

Cannot change the IP address of the XenMobile server on VMware

Cannot change the IP address of the XenMobile server on VMWare. This mostly arises in the following scenario. Customer clones a XenMobile Server for a cluster, then changes the IP address of the clone in the CLI, reboots the cloned XenMobile Server and the IP reverts back to the IP of the origina...

XML Parser and Core Services upgrade

Question: Security scan detected obsolete software Microsoft XML Parser and Microsoft XML Core Services MSXML 4.0. Do we need & use XML for Xenmobile? Can we remove or update XML? Answer: This specific item is a very common scan error that likely does not have anything to do with XenMobile. In fa...

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...

FAQ: Apple's Device Enrollment Program and Citrix Secure Hub Auto Install

Q: How to download and install Citrix Secure Hub automatically during DEP initial setup without the user searching the AppStore? A : The capability to install Secure Hub during DEP initial setup of a device is supported with XenMobile 10.3.x Server and later: All you need to do is to push the...

NetScaler Cheat Sheets for XenMobile Integration

The purpose of these NetScaler cheat sheets is to provide a reference article with key information about each Session Policy or Session Profile configured via NetScaler / XenMobile wizard. These cheat sheets are applicable for XenMobile 9 and 10.x solutions. STWBRWIPAddress Clientless Access...

Citrix Endpoint Management (XenMobile) Server Support Bundle Overview

The following table has key information about Citrix Endpoint Management XenMobile Server Support Bundle. For additional information please review the following link. This includes: List of log files included in the bundle Log type Description of what is included in the log file Analytical value ...

Secure Mail unable to send large files.

Having problems using Secure Mail client in sending large files greater than 7 to 10MB Verifyed the WM Logs and could see the following error , where by the mail is send to the Outbox ERROR 2Response contained WBXML content with contentLength=15 for activeSyncCommand=SendMail INFO 4SendMail -...

Microsoft Office Rearm Error

Reported failures: Rearm count exceeded Rearm failure Rearm Warning on machine catalog...

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...

XenMobile: How to enroll MAC OS X to XMS Server

How to enroll MAC OS X device to XenMobile MDM...

How Do I Set Up RSA Keys/Public SSL Certificate on Citrix ADC

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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...

How to Configure Single Fully Qualified Domain Name for StoreFront and NetScaler Gateway

This article describes how to configure Single Fully Qualified Domain Name on StoreFront and NetScaler Gateway...

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...

How to collect ADB and XCODE logs for XenMobile

To make users aware on how they can collect the ADB logs and XCODE logs...

How to Integrate StoreFront into Clientless Access Page from NetScaler When Using CVPN

This article describes how to use Clientless Access CVPN on NetScaler and integrate StoreFront published applications and desktops into the tabbed list...

Error: "Please check your credentials you may have mistyped them" on XenMobile

XenMobile enterprise migration is completed successfully from 9 to 10.1. Enrollment begins OK, MAM side errors out. Customer initiates enrollment and when Secure Hubagain is connecting to MAM and user is expecting to enter PIN prompt they see the following error: Please check your credentials you...

Stop Error "0x0000005D" or "0x000000C4" Appears When Installing Windows Server 2012 in XenServer 6.x

Stop Error "0x0000005D" or "0x000000C4" appears when starting a Virtual Machine from the Windows Server 2012 ISO, in order to install the system. The error occurs right after loading the setup files, before the actual setup starts...

Error: "An error occurred communicating with the server" When Opening PVS Console and Connecting to the Farm

After upgrading Provisioning Services PVS, the following error message appears when launching the PVS Server Console: "An error occurred communicating with the server."...

Database Connection Issues in XenDesktop and Provisioning Services

When adding a Delivery Controller to a site, the following error appearsin the XenDesktop studio: “The services could not connect to the database. Possible reason for message: The database server may not be allowing remote connections. Ensurethe database server is setup correctly and that the...

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...

Hyper-V Synthetic Network Interface Card Reinitializes on New Target Devices

Hyper-V synthetic Network Interface Card NIC reinitializes on new Provisioning Services target.During the synthetic NIC reinitialize at boot, it delays any software to use the interface.Windows redetects the NIC as a new device and increments the name of the device, for example, “Local Area...

SSL Error 61 - You have not chosen to trust Certificate Authority on Citrix Receiver for Windows

Citrix Gateway, formerly Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway Citrix Workspace app is the new universal app for all workspace services, that will encompass all Citrix clients and app capabilities over time. The following error messagesare displayed for Receiver users accessing StoreFront or Web...

Advanced Memory and Storage Considerations for Provisioning Services

As Citrix Provisioning Services has begun to play a greater role in XenApp and XenDesktop implementations, many discussions have been had on proper sizing of Provisioning Services from a network, CPU and storage perspective. However, most recommendations have left out guidelines for proper sizing...

How to Obtain SNMP MIB File for NetScaler SDX Appliance

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