PVS config wizard failed with error " Service Start for Citrix PVS Soap Service failed. The service did not respond to start or control request in a timely fashion. (0x41d)"

While running the Configuration wizard it fails to start the network service. Event viewer shows that the soap service has terminated. Soap service is in stopped state and is not able to start the service. PVS config wizard failed with error " Service Start for Citrix PVS Soap Service failed. The...

Delay with touch screen swipe in HDX session from touch screen device when using Receiver for Windows

When using a touch screen device such as Microsoft surface pro which utilizes the full receiver for windows client users notice a delay when using the touch screen swipe feature in the session. This delay is most obvious when using the finger or a stylus pen to draw in an application such as MS...

NetScaler Gateway : Radius Authentication Fails Intermittently Despite RADIUS Server Accept

NetScaler Gateway Authentication Scenario 1: Gateway Page would present the authentication to be done in 2 factor. First the user enters the LDAP username and password. Now there would be 2 options either user can do the touch authentication present in the MFA Application or else can wait for the...

Error: "Cannot Complete Your Request" Due to Call Back URL Misconfiguration on StoreFront

The following error is displayed due to call back URL misconfiguration on StoreFront: Cannot Complete Your Request...

Error: "Cannot Complete Your Request" After Publishing New App or Customizing App’s Icon on StoreFront

The following error is displayed after publishing a new application or customizing an application’s icon on StoreFront: Cannot Complete Your Request...

Error: "Cannot Complete Your Request" Due to Citrix Delivery Services Authentication App Pool Misconfiguration on StoreFront

The following error is displayed due to Citrix delivery services authentication app pool misconfiguration on StoreFront: Cannot Complete Your Request...

VDA does not register when provisioned using PVS

The Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent does not register with the Citrix XenDesktop Deliver controller when streamed by Citrix Provisioning Services...

Multiple Calendars Secure Mail

Question: Can I synchronize multiple calendar or contacts folders using Secure Mail? Answer: You can only synchronize your default calendar folder, contact folder, and tasks folder. There is a third party limitation related to how Active Sync works, on the Microsoft website you can find the...

How to set the default size of the Elastic Layering writable volume

When Elastic Layering is enabled with or without User Layers, the boot disk is created with an extra 20GB as a second partition where the user writes will be stored. This is necessary to keep writes at a layer above the boot disk and any elastically assigned layers that might show up later. If yo...

Setting ProcMon to run at a lower altitude to capture other filter drivers

If you need to get Procmon's filter to run below us in the filter stack, it has a setting for that. Procmon is usually used to figure out what is happening on the machine, but you do not get to see the activity of things such as virus scanners and unifiltr because they happen at a lower level tha...

How to Collect Support Bundle from XenMobile Server CLI using FileZilla

This article describes how to collect XenMobile support bundle with FileZilla. FileZilla can be installed locally and act as FTP server...

Citrix SD-WAN Warning: EE provisioning error WAN Optimization is not provisioned. Please use single step upgrade to upgrade your network and schedule installation

After an upgrade to version 10.x the following Warning message is displayed in the GUI:...

How to Provision Network Bandwidth in a NetScaler SD-WAN Appliance

This article describes how the bandwidth provisioning works in a NetScaler SD-WAN and how to modify the bandwidth provisioning parameters based on the network requirements. Background The SD-WAN provisioning allows for the bidirectional LAN to WAN/WAN to LAN distribution of bandwidth for a WAN Li...

The PXE service is not running on the PVS server

The PXE service isn't running on the Provisioning Services server. This service is used for PXE booting. If Provisioning Services is using PXE booting and the service is not running, target devices might not be able to start up as expected. Note:If PXE booting is not currently used, this service ...

Troubleshooting a 3rd Party Wrapped App

XenMobile: Troubleshooting a 3 rd Party Wrapped App 1. Test with the core .ipa or .apk file.Does the core file work without being wrapped? If yes go to 2. 2. Do other wrapped application works as expected? If yes go to 3. 3. Wrap with the latest toolkit found at:...

How to configure USB Passthrough with XenServer

This article describes the method to configure USB Pass-through with XenServer...

After upgrading Windows on a PVS server, PowerShell snapins are no longer shown

After upgrading a PVS server from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2019, it was observed that none of the PVS PowerShell snapins were registered. Tools like the App Layering Agent that attempted to use those those PowerShell cmdlets failed, though they had worked before the upgrade...

Windows 10 October 2018 Update (v1809) – Citrix Known Issues

Microsoft releases software updates for Windows 10 twice a year through the Semi-Annual Channel. On 2nd October2018, Microsoft released its latest Semi-Annual Channel release for Windows 10 called 'October 2018 Update' v1809. This article is intended to capture known issues with Windows 10...

NetScaler Kerberos WIKI - Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting details for Kerberos Constrained Delegation and Authentication related issues on NetScaler...

How to Generate and Install an SSL Certificate on a StoreFront Server for HTTPS connections

This article explains how to generate and install an SSL certificate on a StoreFront server for HTTPS connections. If you have already generated an SSL certificate on one of your StoreFront servers in the StoreFront server group, you can just export the existing SSL certificate and import the...

FAQ: NetScaler SD-WAN Installation and Upgrade

Q: Can I downgrade a NetScaler SD-WAN 4000/5000 appliance to an earlier software release? A : A NetScaler SD-WAN 4000/5000 appliance cannot be downgraded to an earlier release.The appliance should have to be factory reset and provisioned again from scratch. For example, if an appliance is running...

AppLayering 2.x: Increase the Size of an App Layer Disk in Unidesk

This article describes how to increase the disk size of an App Layer...

Google Cloud print no longer available with Citrix Workspace app for Chrome OS

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 Google Cloud print not working with Citrix Workspace app for Chrome OS This applies toCitrix Workspace a...

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...

How to use CLI Route Commands in NetScaler SD-WAN 10.0

NetScaler SD-WAN 10.0 is continuing to build on it's routing capabilities to enable the appliance to act as a router replacement. A number of commands are now available for viewing routing information through the CLI, mainly focused around the 'show' command...

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...

Reverse Split Tunnel Use Case in XenMobile Server and NetScaler Integration

This article describes Reverse Split Tunnel use case in XenMobile Server and NetScaler, and its configuration steps...

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...

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...

Improved Control Over the Remote Language Bar for Seamless Published Applications

Introduction This feature enhancement first appears in the XenApp and XenDesktop 7.17 Product Release. Code changes to support this feature were required in Windows VDA version 7.17 and Receiver for Windows 4.11. Using the Receiver for Windows UI, users can now configure whether they want to...

Configuration Wizard fails to complete properly

When running the configuration wizard, after finishing the process, the error shown below might be seen and the PVS server will not be joined correctly to the farm...

Citrix App Layering - User Layer Error "We were unable to attach your User Layer"

When end users log into a virtual machine with Elastic layering enabled, they see the error "We were unable to attach your User Layer. Any changes you make to application settings or data will not be saved. Be sure to save any work to a shared network location." Details: "Access to the path...

Web Insight Data Not Visible on NetScaler MAS

AppFlow aka Insight has been enabled for the VServer and Services. Enabled Web Insights on NetScaler MAS no data is displayed. Firewall port UDP 4739 is allowed from the NetScaler NSIP/SNIP to the MAS appliance. ULFD was disabled and server was removed...

Secure Mail - Not able to send emails with attachments more than 8MB

Unable to send email with attachments more than 8 MB...

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 Browser Content Redirection

This article provides an overview of the Browser content redirection BCR feature and use cases before providing general troubleshooting guidelines. It is highly recommended that you first read through the Browser content redirection and Browser content redirection policy settings sections of the...

StoreFront 3.7 - Chrome Does Not Detect Receiver on Client

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 launching applications from Chrome, it uses HTML Receiver instead of Locally installed Receive...

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...

How to add Weblinks and Shortcuts to Citrix Android Launcher

Question: how to place weblink shortcuts on Citrix Android Launcher for XenMobile? If this is not possible what is the workaround? Answer: In order to add an app to Citrix Launcher, you need to specify an App ID/full name - for example, com.android.calendar for the Calendar. The problem with Web...

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...

Why cache file size of "Cache on device RAM with overflow on hard disk" is growing faster than "Cache on device hard disk"

Cache Type = "Cache on device hard disk" The block reservation of "Cache on device hard disk" is ONLY 4KB, and it's random I/O. Cache Type = "Cache on device RAM with overflow on hard disk" Since "overflow on hard disk" is vhdx format, the block reservation is 2MB & required for sequential I/O,...

StoreFront 3.x MMC Crashes When Editing Multi-Site Aggregation

MMC crashes when trying to remove controller from Multi-Site Aggregation Configuration. This only happens when trying make changes on Multi site aggregation Configuration...

Calculate MSS Value for NetScaler SD-WAN Appliances

By default, the MSS value is defined as 1380 bytes in aNetScaler SD-WANappliance, assuming the WAN infrastructure allows a standard IP packet maximum transmission unit MTU size of 1,500 bytes. Some WAN infrastructures might not provide enough space for MSS of 1380 bytes because additional protoco...

WEM Console Access error: "You are not registered as a Workspace Environment Management Administrator. Therefore, you are not allowed to access the service..."

When attempting to connect to the WEM site using the WEM Admin console, the following message appears: "You are not registered as a Workspace Environment Management Administrator. Therefore, you are not allowed to access the service. Please contact your Workspace Environment Management...

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...

How to Configure Authentication at StoreFront using NetScaler Gateway - NetScaler Configuration

This article describes how to configure authentication at StoreFront using NetScaler Gateway - NetScaler Configuration...

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...

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

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XenMobile BitLocker Policy for Windows 10 Desktop/Tablet

XenMobile BitLocker Policy for Windows 10 Desktop/Tablets BitLocker is a disk encryption feature that is built into Windows 10. It can be controlled via MDM policy beginning in Windows 10 1703 build. The policy CSP is available...

Error "Could not update master user list" while saving the LDAP Configuration on XenMobile server

Unable to save LDAP configuration and getting Error "Could not update master user list" For sample logs: 2017-08-21T09:21:30.411-0700 | 3811F15F6AE686BC | INFO | http-nio-14443-exec-11 | com.citrix.cg.identity.ldap.LdapManager | Given baseDN 'dc=domain,dc=example,dc=com'is valid:true...