Multipath tools

In enterprise environments where uptime and performance are critical, ensuring continuous and efficient access to storage is paramount. Multipathing is a technique used to provide multiple physical paths between the host and the storage devices. XenServer manages these multiple I/O paths, enablin...

Issue while deploying Session Recording servers from within the Cloud

Error "The Current machine does not have sysadmin access" while deploying Session Recording servers from within the Cloud...

How to View or Change Encryption Policy Configuration for Xenmobile

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

"Invalid configuration for device '0'" When updating existing machines.

VMware and Studio report: "Invalid configuration for device '0'. Cannot remove virtual disk from the virtual machine because it or one of its parent disks is part of a snapshot of the virtual machine."...

VDA "Unregistered" due to special characters in 'BrowserName' property of published application

VDA might turn to "Unregistered" state when 'BrowserName' property of published application contains special characters, e.g. a pair of brackets...

Working Directory ignored for first application launch after upgrading to 1912 CU9 VDA

This known issue affects published applications in Multi-Session VDAs. VDAs are upgraded to 1912 CU9. Launching the first Published Application fails. Any subsequent application launch succeeds. In certain cases, the initial launch of the published application is successful but results in a...

"ASM_DEP_SHARED" property is wrongly set to true when DEP shared mode is disabled

In XMS 10.15 RP6, the device property "ASMDEPSHARED" is set to "true" even if the "Shared mode" setting of your DEP account is disabled. New DEP enrollments in other 10.15 rolling patches are not impacted...

Netscaler ADM Issues

Introduction This article provides a list of Knowledge Base resources on how to investigate, troubleshoot, and prevent the most common issues with connectivity of NetScaler Console Agent to NetScaler Console Service. Overview of the Issue NetScaler Agent helps the on-prem NetScalers to connect to...

Netscaler SSL (Certificates and Ciphers)

Introduction This article provides a summary of the useful resources about Netscaler SSL Certificates and Ciphers Appendix: Top Knowledge Content Troubleshooting Common Problems CTX124429 - Error: "unable to load PKCS7 object" is Displayed when Converting or Installing a PKCS 7 Certificate on...

Netscaler - Load Balancing (GLSB, Content Switching)

Introduction This article contains links to some of the most popular knowledge base articles which can help with common issues that are related to the Load Balancing feature of Citrix NetScaler. See the list below for helpful articles which are related to Load Balancing virtual servers, Content...

Ctrix Virtual Apps and Desktop - Troubleshooting; Tools and Data collection

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to the data collection process. There are two main areas covered in this summary including data collection guidance and tools. Top Knowledge Content Citrix Tools: CTX203082 - Citrix Supportability Pack CTX677255 - Citrix...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Profile Management (UPM, WEM)

Citrix Profile Management Introduction Profile Management is intended as a profile solution for Citrix Virtual Apps servers, virtual desktops created with Citrix Virtual Desktops, and physical desktops. You install Profile Management on each computer whose profiles you want to manage. Active...

How to Introduce a Local Storage Repository in XenServer

This article describes how to introduce a local Storage repository SR on XenServer. The XenServer database has become corrupt or your XenServer does not see the local SR...

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...

How to Change the Password Reset Reminder Settings in StoreFront

This article provides information on how to change the Password Reset reminder settings in StoreFront...

How to Enable Special Pool Tagging for a Driver

If the stack of a process is overrun by another process, analysis of the dump is not possible because the crash occurs when the original process writes to the kernel space which is already occupied by the other, misbehaving component. Enabling Special Pool Tagging causes the driver to crash as so...

iSCSI Service (open-iscsi) Startup Best Practices for XenServer

This article containsbest practices for setting the iSCSI Service open-iscsi to start automatically in XenServer...

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...

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...

Error: XDDS:F26A2921 Studio Cannot Contact DDC

After a failed upgrade for StoreFront 2.5 and while repairing StoreFront, Studio lost communication to the DDC. Details Error Id: XDDS:F26A2921 Exception: Citrix.Console.Common.CitrixAggregateException One or more parallel operations failed at Citrix.Console.Common.CitrixParallel.InternalForEachT...

Linux Virtual Machines are Unable to Boot from DVD on XenServer

On XenServer, a user can run both Linux and Windows virtual machines, and like physical machines, it can be set to boot from various sources. However, when a Linux virtual machine is set to boot from DVD, it can fail with the following error message:...

How to Configure Email Based Account Discovery on StoreFront

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Provisioning Services Time Synchronization Requirements

The Provisioning Services StreamProcess becomes unresponsive when a time change occurs on the Provisioning Services Server...

How to Create an Update Task to be Performed at a Scheduled Time in Provisioning Services

This article explains how to create an update task to be performed at a scheduled time. Note : This article is part 3 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 Host Connection to vDisk Update...

How to Remove a XenServer Slave when it No Longer Exists in the Pool

XenCenter shows the red icon of the XenServer Slave that no longer exists in the pool.You want to eliminate that XenServer Slave but you receive the following error message when you issue the command from XenServer Master xe host-forget of that Slave. "This host cannot be forgotten because there...

How to Configure Automatic Virtual Disk Updates

This article contains information about how to use the Provisioning Services Automatic vDisk Update process. Background The vDisks assigned to the clients during the Automatic vDisk Update process are new versions of the vDisks currently assigned to the clients; allowing for the automatic...

Recovering Virtual Machines from Failed Pool Member

In the event of a XenServer host power failure, any Virtual Machines VMs running on that host might not be displayed in XenCenter. This is the expected behavior without High Availability HA enabled. The following is a XenCenter screen shot of the pool prior to the failure of the host named...

Error “The system cannot find the specified file. Error number 0xE0000002” Occurs When Merging vDisk Versions Fails

Merging vDisk versions fails and displays the following error: "The system cannot find the specified file. Error number 0xE0000002." Running mcli run mergedisk –p disklocatorid base=1 displays success on execution, however merged disk doesnot come up on console or store. Management Daemon logs...

Machine Account Password Fails to Update

While configuring Active Directory machine account password management in the virtual disk file properties, the machine account password expires after the determined value timeout without successfully changing...

Unable to Connect the Secure Web with the Error "Cannot open page"

Unable to open the internal pages from Secure Web. Error"Cannot open page"is displayed...

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:...

Session Appears Down in XenApp Farm and Csrss.exe Process Remains Active in Session

Session appears in astate in the XenApp farm. Csrss.exe process remains active in the session. This generally means that the session had problems on logoff and remains hung until it is manually terminated or the server is restarted. Additionally, if the server has sessions in this state and is...

CIFS ISO Mount Disconnecting Intermittently

Mounting out ISO from a CIFS ISO Storage Repository SR disconnects intermittently, and causes boot ISOs to disappear and bounced servers unable to boot. The /var/log/messages log is displayed as following: CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 50 mid 3457CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 50 mid 63007CIFS VFS...

Error: "HTTP Error 404" When Accessing StoreFront Through NetScaler Gateway

Error: "HTTP Error 404" when accessing StoreFront through NetScaler Gateway. This issue surfaces after changing the StoreFront base URL from HTTP to HTTPS. The following is the NetScaler Session Profile snippet:...

Access Gateway Platform or Universal Licenses Not Reflecting on a NetScaler Appliance

After applying the Access Gateway Platform or Universal license, the ICA Users show zero, or maximum Access Gateway users allowed count does not increase as shown in the following screen shot:...

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...

Usage of Service SIDs and IIS Application Pools in StoreFront

This article contains information about the usage of Windows Service account SIDs and Application Pool Identities to secure Receiver StoreFront. Requirements Ensure that the existing infrastructure supports the StoreFront system requirement mentioned in the following link: System requirements for...

Cannot Connect to vCenter Through the Streamed VM Setup Wizard to Create VMs

Cannot connect to vCenter throughthe Streamed VM Setup Wizard in order to create Virtual Machines VMs...

NetScaler 13.1 Build 52.19 is unable to send packets properly on a specific KVM platform.

It has been confirmed that on a specific KVM platform, NetScaler 13.1 Build 52.19 is unable to send packets properly...

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...

Unable to add store to Citrix Workspace App for Windows when Forcepoint agent is installed

When adding a StoreFront store to Citrix Workspace App for Windows, the Google multi-factor authentication page does not load correctly if Forcepoint agent is installed. The authentication form only partially loads. Without Forcepoint agent, the problem disappears...

Users unable to reconnect to disconnected session to access their Citrix virtual desktop.

Unable to reconnect to a disconnected session with error "Unknown Client error 1110" when using CVAD 2203 CU3 and earlier. When problem occurs, it is also not possible to connect via RDP. Logon stays at stuck under the "Other User Welcome" screen...

Number of backup files that retains in the SDX appliance

Number of backup files that retains in the SDX appliance...

Autoscale managed VDAs, unexpectedly being powered on

Citrix Machine Catalog capacity is managed by Autoscaling. The customer noticed more machines are powered on that set by Autoscaling, even though there is low utilization in the environment. Support teams validated customers autoscaling configuration, and confirmed there was excess load capacity ...

can't launch session on Redhat 8.4

The customer setup LVDA 2203 CU2 on AMD server with Redhat 8.4, but when they launch session, the desktop viewer became grey screen and exited later. But the issue doesn't occur when launch session on intel desktop with Redhat 8.4...

A new tool bar has appearred since Citrix Workspace App for ChromeOS 2402.

A new tool bar has appearred after upgrading to Citrix Workspace App for ChromeOS 2402. Prior to 2402, the old old tool bar was displayed...

Virtual keyboard automatic popup feature might not work properly due to API limitations

Virtual keyboard automatic popup feature might not work properly due to API limitations...

After upgrading to 13.1 49.x build , the PE CPU significantly increases after running for some time

You may observe the following issues when you're running the below version 13.1 52.x/14.1 17.x and using hundreds of admin partitions: All newnslog files have a very small time range, for example, 1-5 seconds. nsconmsg -K newnslog -d setime start time Fri Sep 8 03:25:28 2023 end time Fri Sep 8...

Get License, Hardware and Platform details from API call

Get the output of Hardware, platform and License via API...

Conversion Manager 8.3.1 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1

Who Should Install This Update? This Conversion Manager virtual appliance update is for customers who use the Conversion Manager feature of Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1. It constitutes the following deliverable: File Name| CitrixHypervisor-8.2.1-vpx-conversion-8.3.1.xva ---|--- Description| This fil...