Increase the size of the App Layering boot disk for packaging

When you create/edit layers in App Layering, a packaging machine is created. If you have caching enabled, then a boot disk is created as well as copies of the OS layer and any relevant App Layer. When the packing machine is booted, some system data such as the pagefile is stored on that boot disk...

unable to hide Published desktop for specific client device/domain groups via BrokerAccessPolicy

unable to hide Published desktop for specific client device/domain groups via BrokerAccessPolicy Limit visibility in a delivery group for specific user/client...

Assign CSP licenses from MT Pool to linked Single DaaS tenant

CSP with Multi-Tenant Daas would like to re-assign some licenses to one of their Sub tenants. In this case, the sub-tenant has Single Tenant licenses which have entered Grace Period...

App Layering - Support for VHDX format for User layers

This article describes the supported format VHD or VHDX for User layers...

Storefront - The default TraceLevel of StoreFront diagnostics logs

This article describes the default TraceLevel of StoreFront diagnostics logs...

PVS Target Devices boot statistics very high bytes read

The customer had observed very slow PVS target boot time. Boot statistics on vDisk shows a long time to boot, over 600 seconds, and boot time bytes read of over 2.5 GB...

How to View or Change Encryption Policy Configuration for Xenmobile

How to view or change encryption policy configuration on a Xenmobile server...

Unable to set DefaultReuseMachinesWithoutShutdownInOutage using PowerShell command

While runing the PowerShell command "Set-BrokerSite -DefaultReuseMachinesWithoutShutdownInOutage $true" in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops CVAD 2203 LTSR environment, the following error "A required feature is disabled by the system configuration" was shown...

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...

Xenserver Troubleshooting : Comprehensive Guide

Introduction Instances where XenServer encounters various errors preventing its connection to XenCenter Overview of the Issue In different situations, XenServer experiences connectivity issues with XenCenter, possibly due to various factors. This article will outline different scenarios and...

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 Virtual Apps and Desktop - Director and Monitor Service

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to Citrix Director. The most commonly used support articles and guides are below. Director is a monitoring and troubleshooting console for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Top Knowledge Content Troubleshooting Common...

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 Storage: Comprehensive Guide

Introduction This article will assist you in resolving issues with unavailable VDI Virtual Disk Image. Overview of the Issue In different situations, XenServer experiences issues with starting VM’s , taking a snapshot or scan of SR’s and failing with error “VDI is not available ”. This article wi...

Citrix uberAgent Security Bulletin for CVE-2024-3902

A vulnerability has been discovered in Citrix uberAgent, which, if exploited, may result in the escalation of privileges of the attacker. This vulnerability only impacts uberAgent and does not impact any other Citrix and or Cloud Software Group products. Affected Versions: The following supported...

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...

Best Practice for Setting the Citrix Profile Manager Cache File for Provisioning Services Server

This article describes the best practice for setting the Citrix Profile Manager Cache file for Provisioning Services PVSServer...

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...

Acceleration Does Not Work After Cisco ASA 8.x is Configured to Allow TCP Options

Installed Citrix CloudBridge as INLINE in two sites, which are connected through an IPSec VPN using Cisco ASA firewall. The TCP option policy, as suggested in CTX112401 – Acceleration Does Not Take Place for Configured Traffic Types, is applied to ASA, but acceleration still does not work. The...

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...

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...

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 Configure Windows 2003 Network File Share as Authenticated Storage Repository for XenServer

This document describes how to configure Windows Server 2003 Release 2 Server Network File Share NFS as an authenticated storage repository for XenServer. The NFS component is only included in Windows Server 2003 Release 2. If you do not have this edition, you can achieve the same results by...

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...

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...

How to Validate If XenServer is Using Bridge or vSwitch for the Network Stack

This article describes how to validate if XenServer is using Bridge or vSwitch for the network stack. By default, XenServer 6.x uses vSwitch as the network stack when the host is installed. At some point, the XenServer administrator might have changed the network stack to Bridge. When attempting ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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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...

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!"...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

[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...

Custom virtual channels | App not launching if .dll file name is too long or contains underscores

App launch hangs after "connecting with ..."...

Citrix Endpoint Management (aka XenMobile Server) 10.16.0 Rolling Patch 1

Package name: xms10.16.0.10108.bin For: XenMobile Server 10.16.0 Deployment type: On-premises only Replaces: None Date: June 2024 Languages supported: English US Important notes about this update As a best practice, Citrix recommends that you install this and other updates to ensure that you have...