PVS Provisioned VDA Experiences Poor Performance and Freezing

A PVS provisioned VDA can experience poor performance and freezing when the Machine Creation Services Write Back Cache drivers MCSIO are present in the vDisk image. It is typical to have first identified a machine in this state by its unregistered VDA status. While trying to access the VM, it may...

Some Receiver Components Fail to Install and Function After Windows 10 Update

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. After upgrading Windows 10 to a new feature update and attempting to install Citrix Receiver or the...

Citrix WEM 1903 - Roaming folder files are deleted by VUEMUIAgent.exe on logon

Users noticed that the icons in the task bar went white. This was due to a lot of folders and files were deleted in the User Profiles Example Appdata\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\2017\ Appdata\Roaming\Google\Chrome\ Appdata\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\ Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Credentials...

App Layering Recipe: How to deploy Microsoft SCCM in a layer

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Black screen at logon to MCS provisioned, ICa, RDP, and via console

User published image from App Layering. Published image worked normally, they were able to logon. The provisioned the machine via MCS. When they logon to the provisioned machine, they get a black screen. They are able to launch task manager and start a new task for Explorer. The desktop appears...

PVS Detach and Attach Write Cache Disk Drive Letter Changed

Detach and attach write cache disk,TD drive letter changes...

How to Disable "Remember my password" Checkbox - Citrix Receiver for Windows

For security reasons, users might want to disable Windows Receiver "Remember my password" checkbox toprevent an automatic logon without credential required...

The Supplemental Grace Period is active and all installed licenses are currently in use

This alertisseen on the Director andCitrix Studio. The Supplemental Grace Period is active and all installed licenses are currently in use License server status on Director shows "not connected"...

Logon process to VDAs is extremely slow when Citrix UPM is enabled

Logon to VDAs is extremely slow when Citrix UPM is enabled. When disabling the Citrix UPM service the logon process is normal. Sophos AV 10.x is installed on the VDAs...

Storefront 3.12 CU5 Error: Propagation failed on one or more Servers

PROBLEM: When administrator launches Storefront Management Console and attempts to perform "Propagate Changes" on Servers , the process fails with the following error: Error: Propagation failed on one or more Servers Event logs on Primary Server shows the following event: Event ID 31 An error has...

Outlook Search Indexing Fails on Windows Server 2019 VDA

When setting up a Windows Server 2019 virtual machine with Multi session VDA 1912, Outlook Search Indexing is not function properly. In this scenario, User Profile Management functions as expected, and the OutlookOST and OutlookSearchIndex VHDX disks are properly mounted when user signed in...

Citrix App Layering - Error while trying to import layers

While trying to import layers, App Layering console displays an error: "An unexpected exception occurred. If this problem continues, contact Technical Support and provide them with the details of this exception". Looking at the ELM Web logs, we might see the below errors: ERROR 2832HandlerHelper:...

File type association for Microsoft Edge browser broken after Edge upgrade

File type association no longer works for Microsoft Edge after upgrading the built-in default instance of Microsoft Edge included in your particular version of the Windows 10 operating system to a more recent version...

Citrix Gateway Native OTP not working with Citrix IOS Workspace Client

1. Native OTP configuration done as per https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-gateway/12/native-otp-support.html 2. Android / Windows Workspace Clients and Browser work able to authenticate, enumerate and launch APPs 3. IOS Workspace Client is unable to authenticate, if user enters the...

ShareFile Enterprise - UMT is unable to sync new users created in AD

The user is trying to create an Admin service account that's not leveraging SAML authentication. However, the account is not syncing within the UMT console...

User Profile Management and Microsoft Store Apps (UWP Apps)

When a user installs an app from the Microsoft Store UWP app onto a Windows 10 VDA with Citrix Profile Management, after a logoff and logon, the application does not persist and must be reinstalled...

Provisioning Services | Unable to Reverse Image A vDisk Using P2PVS, Getting "The Destination Disk Is Too Small"

Reverse imaging error - Unable to reverse image a vDisk using P2PVS getting "The destination Disk is too small"...

Upgrading your Citrix Hypervisor Windows I/O drivers to the latest major version (9.x)

You can update your Windows VMs to the latest major version of the Windows I/O drivers quickly and easily by using Windows Updates, Management Agent updates, or by installing from the latest managementagentXX.msifile available at CTX235403. These latest version of the drivers, whose version numbe...

Refresh of WEM agent in admin console fails with error "Some of the requested actions may not have been executed properly"

When attempting to refresh the agents in any way or otherwise perform actions against an agent in the Administration node of the WEM Admin Console, the following message is seen in the bottom right corner: "Some of the requested actions may not have been executed properly." The WEM Agents being...

Issue: Unable to create a new vDisk

Error: BSOD error "SYSTEMTHREADEXCEPTIONNOTHANDLED CVhdMp.sys" Error appears while booting the target device from network during imaging process. Issue on Windows 10 1709 vDisks...

Citrix XenApp Licenses have been Renamed to Citrix Virtual Apps

Citrix XenAppLicenses have been Renamed to​Citrix Virtual Apps Name Change from XenApp to Citrix Virtual Apps Citrix Virtual Apps is the new name for XenApp beginning with the XenApp 7 release. The new name is reflected in all product licenses as well as all licensing-related pages and tools onMy...

Basic Citrix Licensing Information

How does Citrix licensing work? Citrix product goes through a three-step process to check out licenses; information on Licensing overview, visit Citrix Documentation athttps://docs.citrix.com/en-us/licensing/current-release.html Available License types? Visit Citrix Documentation...

User Name and Password Fields are Missing when Configuring a Newly Installed License Server

The License Server Configuration Tool Window does not have the option to enter the username and password for License Administration Console, after the License Server 11.10 is installed. Background Aftersuccessfully installing License Server 11.10, a License Server Configuration Window appears. Th...

SCOM - EOL and Alternatives

Citrix Systems, Inc. announces End of Maintenance EOM and End of Life EOL milestones for the following Citrix SCOM Management Packs. The milestones are provided in accordance with the guidelines established by the Citrix Product Lifecycle Support Policy . Citrix SCOM Management Pack| Notice of...

Compositing Engine machine stuck with error "Lifetime validation failed. The token is expired"

Offload compositing getting stuck with error "Lifetime validation failed. The token is expired" and the compositing engine machine gets deleted after 20 mins. ELM fails with error: The compositing engine failed to initialize after "00:20:00". Screenshot:...

How to install Citrix Workspace app on Android phones and tablets

This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only. This article describes how to install Citrix Workspace app formerly Citrix Receiver on Android phones and tablets. Background : With Citrix Workspace app for the Android phones and tablets, you can access any Citrix...

Issues on Citrix Workspace App for Mac after upgrading to Mac OS Catalina

Certification issues after upgrading to Mac OS Catalina Citrix Workspace App performing slowly...

License Acquisition Error 500 or (-13) or (-8)

After a licensing failure, and subsequent recovery of the license server, individual member servers might experience issues when users attempt to log on, and the following error message appears:“-License Acquisition Error 500” Note: This is observed on XenApp 6.5 versions and below...

Control domain memory leak issue on Citrix Hypervisor 8.0 when GPU in use

1. Any operation on VMs start, shutdown, creating and removing snapshot etc. with GPU are extremely slow 2. Citrix Hypervisor 8.0 freezing when GPU in use...

Error while downloding the Citrix Gateway Plugin from Downloads Tab of ADC : Forbidden you don't have permission to access

ADC version below 13.0 Error while downloading plugin: "Forbidden you don't have permission to access /vpns/scripts/mac/CitrixAccessGateway.dmg on this server"...

Subscribed desktop session fails to launch on CWA 1910 for Mac and macOS Catalina

Denying automation permission after launching subscribed desktop might cause Citrix Workspace App 1910 for Mac to become unresponsive using the macOS Catalina operating system. Affected users will see the spinner to launch a desktop but it will never complete and launch the session. Note:This iss...

Citrix Director showing the client IP address as 0.0.0.0 for users connecting from HTML5 receiver.

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 Please consider below scenario: The user connects to a Published desktop or to a Published application v...

How to change subnet mask of NSIP on NetScaler

How to change the subnet mask of NetScaler management IP address when not using Clustering...

Upgrading to Storefront 3.12 CU4 fails - MSI logs shows Citrix Protocol Transition service exception

When attempting to upgrade Storefront 3.12 LTSR to CU4 fails. In the Install wizard the following message is displayed: When checking the MSI Installer logs the following exception is found NOTE: MSI logs are found in C:\Windows\Temp\Storefront\CitrixMsi-CitrixStoreFront-x64-201X.-xx-xx-xx.log...

Collect a complete memory dump on a MCS (non-persistent) machine on XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor)

This article outlines the steps to collect complete memory dump on a MCS non-persistent machine on XenServer Citrix Hypervisor. Often we are not able to get the memory dump in instances where MCS provisioned VDAs show behaviors like unresponsiveness/hang. The reason being the machine fails to sav...

Unable to start VMs in new Hosts - An emulator required to run this VM failed to start

Unable to start VM with vGPOU assigned on HOST with NVIDIA Card. Getting error: vm-start failed: "An emulator required to run this VM failed to start" Internal LOG: Dec 6 09:10:13 localhost vgpu-211384: demuinitialize: PLUGIN CONFIG: /usr/share/nvidia/vgx/gridp40-1b.conf,gpu-pci-id=0000:d8:00.0De...

Error: "Detailed license information unavailable"

When accessing the XenDesktop licensing console, you receive the following message: "Detailed license information unavailable" Desktop Studio is unable to retrieve detailed license information from the License Server. This service may not be in use or there aren’t sufficient permissions to access...

Master VM Gets Error "The Trust Relatioship Between This Workstation and The Primary Domain Failed" When Trying to Logon to it Using a Domain Account

When trying to log on to master VM using a domain account right after capturing a vDisk from it, an admin user gets error "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed." Resetting or deleting and recreating machine account from PVS console does not resolve issue...

Troubleshooting HDX Optimization for Microsoft Teams

This is a Live article - updated frequently with the latest info and known issues ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended Teams version :latest version. Update history for...

iOS Public App Store app uploads are not working when using the App Store app URL

With Endpoint Management, when an Administrator attempts to upload an iOS and/or iPadOS public App Store app by enteringthe URL by using the new app URL on the App Store, the app is not found and the error below is displayed...

Enabling And Adding USB Devices With Receiver For Chrome

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 toCTX297149 for more information. Objective This article describes enabling USB redirection, adding devices and tested USB devices by...

The Number of vCPUs Assigned To A Guest Causes VIFs To Go Offline

Increasing the number of vCPUs assigned to a VM will reduce the number of available. For instance 10 vCPUs will have 7 active VIFs but 12 vCPUs will only allow 6 active VIFs...

How to configure NetScaler Gateway in an IPv6 environment.

Customer needs to migrate the NetScaler gateway environment to an IPv6 based networking environment...

NOTICE-OF-CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CITRIX SD-WAN 2000 Standard and Premium Edition

Citrix Systems, Inc. announces a Notice of Status Change for the Citrix SD-WAN 2000 Standard and Premium Edition The tables below explain the Citrix SD-WAN life cycle management milestones as well as important information regarding dates and options during this period. The dates and milestones...

Citrix ADC GSLB MEP vs Monitors

What is a GSLB Service? A GSLB service is usually a representation of a load balancing or content switching virtual server, although it can represent any type of virtual server or 3rd party load balancer. The GSLB service identifies the service’s IP address, port number, and service type, and...

NOTICE-OF-CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CITRIX SD-WAN 410 Standard Edition and 1000 Standard and Premium Edition

Note : Upgrade SKUs for these models will be available until the year before EOL Citrix Systems, Inc. announces a Notice of Status Change for the Citrix SD-WAN 410 Standard Edition, Citrix SD-WAN 1000 Standard and Premium Edition The tables below explain the Citrix SD-WAN life cycle management...

Unable to attach from Citrix Files/Quick Edit into Secure Mail

Facing an issue where you open a number of different file types in Citrix Files/Quick Edit and select "Open In" and select "Copy to Secure Mail" and you receive a "Unable to attach file" error in Secure Mail...

Configuring Source NAT for Direct Internet Breakout on Branch SDWAN

After setting up Direct Internet Breakout DIA on a Branch Site, it can be seen that packets forwarded to the internet will retain the private IP address as the Source IP. This will result in packets not returning form public IP destinations. To resolve this, you can configure Source NAT on the...

Workspace: Managing Personal Folders and Shared Folders

This article explains the differences between Personal Folders and Shared Folders and how to manage them...

TrolleyExpress.exe crashed when Workspace app (Receiver) was installed.

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. TrolleyExpress.exe crashed whenWorkspace app Receiver was installed...