Black screen after VDA uninstallaion

Customer uninstalled the VDA to upgrade to a later version but now they see a black screen when they try to logon to the console. The event logs show that LogonUI.exe was crashing...

"Check for Available Renewals" may show error banner "citrixservices.citrix.com is unreachable"

When user clicks "Check for Available Renewals" button in Citrix License Server Console, error banner "citrixservices.citrix.com is unreachable. The server might be offline or there might be Internet, Proxy, or Firewall issues. " may appear. Actually, the affected license server is able to reach...

With the PVS console installed, PowerShell cmdlets targeting On-Prem DDCs prompt for cloud login

On a server with the PVS console installed, executing CVAD cmdlets targeting on-prem DDCs e.g. Get-BrokerSite -AdminAddress will encounter popups prompting for Citrix Cloud sign-on...

Citrix License Server Troubleshooting - Hub Article

Introduction This serves as a central location for common Citrix License Server troubleshooting articles authored and vetted by a group of Citrix subject matter experts in this area. Overview of the Issue Provide a brief yet comprehensive overview of the issue, outlining the common challenges and...

XenServer VM Tools

Introduction Instances where XenServer encounters various errors while installing XenServer VM tools Overview of the Issue In different situations, XenServer has some issues when installing VM tools, possibly due to various factors. This article will outline different scenarios and potential...

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 Desktop - Graphics, HDX Optimization and Audio

Introduction This article is a summary of the support articles and documentation related to Graphics and Display issues, HDX Optimization Teams and Browser Content Redirection and Audio. Overview of the Issue HDX is a set of remoting technologies providing the user with the best possible virtual...

Citrix Gateway: Launch, Authentication, Policies and Endpoint Analysis (EPA)

Introduction This article provides a summary of some of the useful resources about how to investigate, troubleshoot, and prevent the most common issues related to launching a session on Citrix Gateway. This article includes links intended to help with topics which are related to Authentication, t...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop - Machine Creation (MCS, PVS, App Layering)

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to Machine Creation including MCS, PVS and App Layering Top Support Knowledge Content Host Connections and Resource Errors CTX224551 - Delivery Controller cannot contact vCenter server after certificate update on vCenter...

Netscaler SDWAN

Introduction This article provides a summary of the useful resources about troubleshooting the network, configuring and preventing the most common issues related to SD WAN. Overview of the Issue These articles discuss the common issues faced at operation level. The issues are related to licensing...

Xenserver Upgrade: Comprehensive Guide

Introduction This article aims to assist you in XenServer upgrade process and troubleshooting Overview of the Article This article will assist you in finding resources that discuss upgrading procedures and troubleshooting techniques Appendix: Top Knowledge Content Troubleshooting Common Problems...

Event ID 7026 - The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: Bnistack

On a target hosted on a VMWare Hypervisor and running Provisioning Services Target Device Software 6.0 and later,the target device cannot connect to virtual disk when starting it from the local hard drive.A red ‘X’ appears on the virtual disk status icon in the system tray. In the Event Viewer, t...

How to Enable Receiver Logging to Troubleshoot StoreFront Activation/Provisioning

This article describes how to enable Receiver Logging to troubleshoot StoreFront store Activation/ Provisioning in Citrix Receiver for Windows...

Target Device Performance and Freezing Issues While Patched into a Cisco Catalyst Line of Switches

Target devices experience intermittent freezing behavior and poor performance while patched into a Cisco Catalyst line of switches...

XenServer - Overview of Disaster Recovery Options

This article provides an overview of different backup/restore methods available in XenServer for Virtual Machine Metadata. Background Backup/Restore or Site Recover/Disaster Recovery options in XenServer have evolved over recent product versions. This document briefly explains those options...

Unable to Bind Provisioning Services TFTP Service to Multiple NICs

Target devices on different non-routable VLANs are unable to connect to the Provisioning Services PVS server that has a NIC bound to each of the non-routable VLANs...

Error: "StoreFront Monitor Probe Failed" on NetScaler

StoreFront monitor does not work on NetScaler and displays error "StoreFront Monitor Probe Failed". When http monitor is bound to StoreFront service, 200 OK is received in response and service shows as UP. When https monitor is bound to StoreFront service, it fails with error 404 Not Found...

Unable to Connect to High Availability Enabled XenSever Pool and All Servers in Pool are in Emergency Mode

This article provides resolution to connectivity issues to the pool in XenCenter. Following are some of the issues that you might experience: Cannot connect to the pool in XenCenter Cannot start or migrate the virtual machines, although the virtual machines are active and running. All the servers...

Error: XDDS:84D81E3A Unable to Read Disk. Failed to create Machine Catalog. Permission to perform this operation was denied.

Error: XDDS:84D81E3AUnable to Read Disk.Failed to create Machine Catalog. Permission to perform this operation was denied" when creating machine catalog...

How to Backup the XenMobile Database

This article describes how to back up the XenMobile database...

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...

Error: "STOP: 0x0000007B ... " After Updating the Virtual Machine Tools on Provisioning Services

After switching vDisk to Private Mode and upgrading the hosting infrastructure’s Virtual Machine tools VM tools, Virtual Machine stops and displays a blue screen with the following stop error: STOP: 0x0000007B Note: This behavior does not occur with Microsoft’s Hyper-V Integration Services...

Recommended Install Order for Preparing Target Device Captured by Provisioning Server to Deploy vDisk

This article contains the recommended order to install or prepare a target device that must be captured by the Provisioning Services Sever to deploy a virtual disk...

TCP Checksum Interoperability with RFC1624

Customer installed a Repeater 8540 at Data Center and two Branch Repeater 300 appliances at two branch offices for the Proof of Concept POC test. After installation, customers in the branch offices reported that ICA sessions stopped responding from time to time. The session does not respond to...

Troubleshooting 1003 and 1004 Terminal Server Licensing Errors

Summary This article contains information on troubleshooting 1003 and 1004 Terminal Server licensing errors. Users attempting to connect to a XenApp server might experience the following Terminal Services related errors in the Event Log: Event ID: 1003 Source: TermService Type:Information The...

Windows Event Codes Generated by Provisioning Services BNIStack

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When to Enable Intermediate Buffering for Local Hard Drive Cache?

Background Enabling Intermediate Buffering improves throughput performance with writing to the write cache drive and can improve target device performance as well. Refer to Buffered Services for additional information on buffered file I/O services. The following are some points to consider before...

CloudBridge Virtual WAN PBR Mode and Inline Deployment Steps

This article depicts a step-by-step procedure to configure two CloudBridge Virtual WAN appliances: Data Center Appliance in PBR mode Virtual Inline Mode Branch Appliance in Inline mode...

Error 1603 Occurs When Installing Hotfix Rollup Pack 2 on XenApp 6.0

Error 1603 occurs when installing Hotfix Rollup Pack2 on XenApp 6.0. Troubleshooting Methodology The Technical Support Engineer completedthefollowing steps to resolve the issue: Enabled msi logging and attempted the hotfix rollup pack install again. Error 1603 occurred. Examined the msi logs; the...

How to Export and Import StoreFront Subscription Database

This article explains how to export and import a StoreFront Subscription Database...

NDIS Filter Driver from Third Party Product on Target Device Interferes with Connection to Provisioning Services

When a Network Driver Interface Specification NDIS filter driver from third party product is installed on the master target device before the image process, a vDisk is not attached and the Provisioning Services agent icon on the system tray shows a red X. This causes an inability to create a new...

How to Configure Logon Point for Access Gateway 5.0.4 with StoreFront 2.5 for Receiver

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Copied vDisk Fails to Start in Private Mode

Provisioning Services Server target devices fail to boot in private mode with the following error: “vDisk file access permission denied ” The error does not occur when the target devices boot is in standard mode...

Best Practices to Uninstall XenApp/Presentation Server on Windows Server

This article contains best practices for uninstalling XenApp/Presentation Server 4.5 on Windows Server. Best Practices Before uninstalling any Citrix Server products, consider the following points: Ensure that all Hotfixes and Hotfix Rollup Packs are removed before uninstalling. Refer to the Hotf...

How to Configure StoreFront to Start Published Desktops in Full Screen Mode

This article describes how to configure StoreFront to start published desktops in Full Screen Mode...

How to Upgrade from StoreFront 2.1 to StoreFront 2.6

The sequence of steps to upgrade from StoreFront 1.2to StoreFront 2.5: 1. Upgrade from StoreFront1.2 to StoreFront2.0. 2. Upgrade from StoreFront 2.0 to StoreFront 2.5 or StoreFront 2.6. For more information see the StoreFrontlegacy product documentation. To learn more about upgrading from...

XenMobile: Unable to enroll devices Error: "Username and Password are Incorrect"

User is unable to enroll in XenMobile After entering username and password in SecureHub usersreceive the error: "Incorrect Username and Password are Incorrect" Users are able to authenticate in windows with the same credentials...

Error: "The system was not configured correctly"” Appears when Provisioning Services Console Fails to Connect to Farm

The Provisioning Services Console fails to connect to the farm and displays one of the following error messages: “The system setup is not correct.” or "The system was not configured correctly" The Event logs register a series of Event 11 with StreamProcess as the source: “Cannot establish a...

Domain Pass-through to StoreFront Cannot Launch XenDesktop

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Adding Virtual Machines Created by Machine Creation Services to New Catalog

After deleting the host connection in XenDesktop, desktops created using Machine Creation Service MCS are not visible in the Catalog...

Desktops Do Not Register using XenDesktop and Provisioning Server

When using ​XenDesktop with Provisioning Service, the desktops do not register. Note : XenDesktop might try starting all the machines in your desktop group on the VDA Event Viewer: Under Application: Desktop Service - Failed to start WCF services. Exception Log on Failure due to unknown user name...

Support for XenApp in Virtualized Environments

This article provides information on support for XenApp in virtualized environments. Virtual servers provide mainframe-class virtual machines on Intel and AMD architecture servers, and are ideally suited for consolidating and partitioning systems in high-performance environments. Citrix supports...

Firefox Users Cannot Access Desktops or Applications from Receiver for Websites

Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users cannot access desktops and applications from Receiver for websites using Mozilla Firefox 26 or later. When a Firefox user clicks an icon, the Receiver for website displays a spinner for a few seconds, but the desktop or application does not start and no error...

Application Launch Requests Might Fail on a Provisioned XenApp Version 6.0 or 6.5 Multihomed Server

Application launch requests might fail on a Provisioned XenApp Version 6.0 or 6.5 Multihomed Server. “Event 10001: A usable server cannot be found on which to launch the application.”...

How to Enable HTML5 Connections to Provisioning Services Based Catalogs

Enabling connections from Receiver for HTML5 to desktops deployed using Provisioning Services. Background Enabling connections from Receiver for HTML5 to desktops in Provisioning Services PVS based catalogs might require additional steps to complete depending on the persistence of the write cache...

Partition Details are Not Displayed After a Clean Install of XenServer 6.x

On a clean install of XenServer 6.0 or later, the detailed partition does not appear for XenServer boot disk when you run the command,fdisk –l. On XenServer 6.0 or later and running thefdisk –l command, following shows the output and does not display any partition details of the booting disk. Pri...

Provisioning Services Console Error is Displayed During KMS Activation

When changing a virtual disk vDisk in private mode to KMS activation and then changing the mode to standard image modeor changing the activation procedure to KMS for a vDisk in standard image mode, the following error message appears, which can be seen in the console.log when in debug level or in...

Citrix Endpoint Management (aka XenMobile Server) 10.15.0 Rolling Patch 8

Package name: xms10.15.0.10808.bin For: XenMobile Server 10.15.0 Deployment type: On-premises only Replaces: xms10.15.0.10731.bin, xms10.15.0.10624.bin, xms10.15.0.10517.bin, xms10.15.0.10417.bin, xms10.15.0.10327.bin, xms10.15.0.10220.bin, and xms10.15.0.10125.bin Date: July 2024 Languages...

Error - "Your Logon has expired. Please logon again to continue".

An error is seen logging on to Storefront. "Your logon has expired. Please log on again to continue" Error is only seen when logging on as a user from a different domain to that of the Storefront server...

Microsoft Teams VDI 2.0 Fatal Exception Information

Overview Microsoft has recently started to roll out their New VDI solution for Teams. As soon as the rollout started, some of our customers started experiencing a fatal exception resulting in a blue screen. This fatal exception happens only on 2203 LTSR CU2 and below or 2303 CR and below. This...