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...

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 - Upgrading, Installing and Migration issues

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to updating, install and migration of Citrix environments including Controllers and VDA. The most commonly used support articles and guides are below. There are three main areas covered in this summary including Controller...

Citrix Endpoint Management: Policies Guide

Introduction Citrix XenMobile policies play a pivotal role in shaping how organizations interact with and manage their device ecosystems. By creating and enforcing specific policies, administrators can tailor the behaviour of devices to meet the unique needs of their business environments. Overvi...

How to Publish the Printers Folder

This article contains the steps to publish Printers folder. Publishing the Printers folder provides users with a way of changing the printing preferences of their printers, such as paper size, paper type, duplexing options, and so on. Unlike adjusting such preferences within the print dialog of a...

FAQ for XenMobile 10 Migration Tool

This article provides information on frequently asked questions and answers for XenMobile 10 MDM migration tool. Contents Q: What XenMobile editions are supported with the migration tool? Q: What versions of XenMobile are supported with the migration tool? Q: Where is the XenMobile 10 migration...

How to Disarm Fencing When Using High Availability in XenServer

This article describes how to disarm High Availability HA and prevent XenServer host from fencing. Disarming HA does not stop HA logging...

Uninstalling or Upgrading from Beta Release of Hotfix Rollup Pack for XenApp not Supported

Uninstalling or Upgrading from Beta Release of Hotfix Rollup Pack for XenApp not Supported...

Applications in StoreFront Fail to Enumerate

When using Citrix Receiver running in Mac 11 to log on to StoreFront, the applications fail to enumerate. An internal server error occurs in the client device. The following is the log trace of the issue in StoreFront server: Log Name: Citrix Delivery ServicesSource: WebApplicationDate: 06/02/201...

Failure to Store Cache on Local Hard Drive

Even after selecting “cache is on device hard drive”, cache is getting stored on the Provisioning Service PVS server. The following screen shot shows the virtual disk status:...

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...

Memory Dump File Not Being Generated on Provisioned Target

While attempting to configure a Windows 2008 target server created by Citrix Provisioning Services to generate a complete memory dump, it was observed that the memory dump file was not being created properly. Following CTX123642 – How to Recover Windows Kernel Level Dump Files from Provisioned...

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...

Error: "Cannot verify database connectivity" on StoreFront

Though StoreFront server is able to communicate to the SQL server over TCP port 1433, when you click Test Connection at the Deploy Multiple Server Group setup Window for StoreFront 1.1, the connection fails with the following message: Cannot verify database connectivity. The connection string...

How to Troubleshoot Provisioning Services Server Machine Account Password

This article contains information about troubleshooting the Provisioning Services PVS Server machine account passwords...

Provisioning Services Boot Process Diagram

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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...

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...

Unable to Remove Decommissioned Server from StoreFront

Unable to remove decommissioned server from StoreFront deployment using StoreFront GUI and Remove Server action. The console is stuck and the following error appears: “Cannot Remove Server” In this case, in the StoreFront console you might see the following warning message: In addition, the...

Windows Event Codes Generated by Provisioning Services BNIStack

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How to Apply DSCP Marking to CloudBridge Appliance with QoS Enabled

This article explains how to apply DSCP marking to CloudBridge appliance when Quality of Service QoSis enabled. Background Many networking environments use different QoS engine/traffic shaper outside of CloudBridge and hence disable the QoS feature of CloudBridge. Some of the users however would...

Error: "Failed to Discover 1 of 1 Volume on the Destination Disk" Or "Failed to Discover 1 of 2 Volume on the Destination Disk"

After running the Imaging Wizard, when the PXE starts again, P2PVS displays the following error messages: "Failed to discover 1 of 1 volume on the destination disk!" Or "Failed to discover 1 of 2 volume on the destination disk!"...

FAQ: Fail-To-Wire Feature in CloudBridge 2000 and 3000 Appliances

This article is an FAQ on the Fail-To-Wire FTW functionality found in the new Citrix CloudBridge 2000 and Citrix CloudBridge 3000 appliances. Q: What is the supported software release? A : The FTW feature is supported with the following software releases: SVM build: NS 10.0.72.5007 CloudBridge...

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...

Citrix HTML5 Receiver No Longer Works on Chrome Version 30

When accessing StoreFront from a Chrome browser while trying to launch a published resource using Receiver for HTML5, the following error appears: Cannot reach server. Check your network connection or contact your help desk for assistance...

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...

Store Configuration by Server Based Discovery Fails

When attempting to configure Receiver Stores by entering in address of StoreFront server in Email/Server Based Discovery dialog, the following error appears: "Your account cannot be added using this server address. Make sure you entered it correctly. You may need to enter your email address...

How to Export and Import StoreFront Subscription Database

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

Understanding HA fence due to storage

This article describes how to distinguish High Availability HA storage heartbeat fencing from real host crashes. While the majority of HA fencing events occur as regular reboots and leave clear and easily found log statements identifying the event as a fence, there is one particular type of fence...

How to Configure QLogic HBA on XenServer

This article describes how to update the parameters of QLogic HBAs with SANSurfer. HBA parameters might need to be adjusted to the correct configuration on XenServer to function as required. QLogic HBAs contain a default set of parameters that will function but might not give optimum performance ...

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...

When Load Balancing StoreFront on NetScaler all Connections Go to One Server in NetScaler Gateway Set Up

StoreFront servers are not load balanced; all connections go to one server in NetScaler Gateway set up. Following is a screen shot of the status of load balanced servers:...

Timeout Error 4002 in Provisioning Server Console after Clicking "Show Connected Devices"

The following symptoms occur on Provisioning Services PVS Servers when there are multiple streaming NICs assigned to the PVS Server. Example An environment having five streaming NICs had the following symptoms: When Show Connected Devices was clicked in the PVS console, the following symptoms mig...

How to Replace a Network Interface Card in a XenServer Host

This article describes the procedure to replace a Network Interface Card NIC in a XenServer Host. For example, the procedure can be used to replace a faulty NIC. Requirements The XenServer host must be standalone and not joined to a resource pool. Replacing the NIC used as management interface...

How to Set Up Syslog to Capture Logs Real Time on a Central Location

This article describes how set up a Syslog server when you are experiencing issues across multiple XenServers and need to capture logs real-time on a central location...

How to Create a Designated Update Virtual Machine and Add a Host Connection to Hosts Node

This article explains how to create a designated Update Virtual Machine VM and add a host connection to the Hosts node. Note : This article is part 1 of the three articles on how to manage vDisk for automatic updates. 1. CTX137757 – How to Create a Designated Update Virtual machine and adding a...

LDAP Communication Error on XenMobile Device Manager

The following LDAP communication error appears on XenMobile Device Manager: javax.naming.CommunicationException: simple bind failed: xxxx-xxx-xxx.xxx.xxx.com:666Root exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:...

How to Test a Network Throughput Using Iperf

This article describes how to test a network throughput using Iperf. Iperf allows administrators and engineers to test throughput between any two hosts, including physical systems and Virtual Machines VMrunning on XenServer. Requirements Iperf for Windows Download a copy of Iperf for Windows. Thi...

Provisioning Services Cannot Connect to SQL Express

During setup using the Provisioning Services Configuration Wizard, connecting to a Microsoft SQL Express instance installed on another machine fails with the error “Invalid Server”. The specific error code is either “error: 26” or “error: 28”;A network-related or instance-specific error occurred...

Drive Letters Change on the Target Devices when the Virtual Disk Changes between Private and Standard Mode

The local drive letter on the target devices change when a virtual disk changes its mode between Private and Standard. In Private mode the extra disk for write cache is E: and the CD/DVD is D:. When the customer changes the virtual disk to Standard mode, the extra disk for write cache changes to ...

How to Grant Rights to be able to Manage Computer Accounts using the Provisioning Services Console

This article describes how to delegate rights to the user or group to allow adding workstations to an Active Directory ADdomain using the Provisioning Server console. Background While it is possible to assign AD users or groups to Built-In groups within AD to enable this functionality such as...

CloudBridge 4000 and 5000 to Optimize NetApp SnapMirror Traffic1

This article describes how you can configure Citrix CloudBridge 4000 and 5000 to optimize NetApp SnapMirror traffic between two Data centers. The article also provides the benchmarking results from lab testing efforts to quantify the gains that can be attained by deploying NetApp SnapMirror...

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...

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.”...

Provisioning Services Server Target Devices BSOD with KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE When Cache is Set on RAM

Provisioning Services PVS Server target devices streamed to a vSphere Virtual Machine displays a blue screen withKERNELSECURITYCHECKFAILURE when cache is set on RAM...

Target Device Fails to Boot on Hyper-V V2

Provisioning Service Target Devices fails to boot when launched from a HyperV v2 host other than the host where the Provisioning Service Server is located...

Provisioning Services Target Devices Start with MAC Address as the Computer Name

When booting, VMware ESX target devices replace computer name with MAC Address...

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...

[NetScaler] Built-in commands fail because feature is not licensed

On a NetScaler appliance, you may see some built-in commands are failed because feature is not licensed. For example, you use a Standard/Enterprise license, avaiable features in Premium license may have some built-in commands, and they'll get failures. It will not cause any business impact to...