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...

How to Reset the XenServer Host Password on a CloudBridge 2000/3000/4000/5000

This article describes how to reset the XenServer Host password on a CloudBridge 2000/3000/4000/5000. The procedure can be completed when credentials are not working to access the SVM, XS, and Serial Console...

Error 2320: "No value could be found for LegacyLocaluserNameAndPassword" when opening ICA connection

The following message is displayed when opening an ICA connection: Error 2320: Citrix Receiver configuration manager: No value could be found for LegacyLocaluserNameAndPassword that satisfies all lockdown requirements. The lockdown requirements in force might be conflicting...

How to Export Target Devices into a .CSV File

This article details how to export Target Devices from a Provisioning Services PVS database in a formatted Comma Separated Values CSV file. Requirements SQL Server Management Studio or bcp.exe, both of which are components of a full SQL Server or SQL Server Express install...

Static IP Configuration with Boot Device Manager

Attempts to useBoot Device Manager BDM to boot Windows 7, Windows 2008, and Windows 2008 R2 with a static IP addresses might fail; all systems other than the first might experience a fatal exception and display a blue screen with a duplicate IP address error message...

TCP Ports get exhausted on the StoreFront server

StoreFront refuses to create connections and we get below events : Event ID 4231 : Request to allocate an ephemeral port number from the global TCP port space has failed due to all such ports being in use. Event ID 4227 : TCP/IP failed to establish an outgoing connection because the selected loca...

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...

Provisioning Services Target Device Software Fails to Install

Provisioning Services Target Device Software might fail during the installation with the following error: When you click OK , the following error appears: Reviewing the Event Viewer of the server displays the following errors: “Product: Citrix Provisioning Services Target Device x64 -- Error...

How to Disable Specific Client Drive Mappings

This article provides instructions on how to disable specific Client Drive Mappings from enumerating within an ICA session...

How to Enable Promiscuous Mode on a Physical Network Card

This article describes how to enable promiscuous mode on a physical Network Interface Card NIC.In a network, promiscuous mode allows a network device to intercept and read each network packet that arrives in its entirety. This mode of operation is sometimes given to a network snoop server that...

How to Export a Virtual Machine to an External USB Drive

This article describes how to export a XenServer Virtual Machine VM to a USB storage device...

Error: "A duplicate IP address was assigned" on Provisioning Server Target Devices

Two IP addresses are assigned to individual PVS target devices streaming network adapters. The behavior can occur on every boot, or intermittently. Background This can occur in environments with DHCP solutions which may assign different IP addresses to individual target devices, at pxe dhcp reque...

How to Create an ICA File with Minimal Parameters

To create an ICA file with minimal parameters set, complete the following procedure: 1. Download theICA file from this article. 2. Copy the content from this file into anICA file. 3. Update theusername orpassword parameter with the relevant username and password that you use in your environment...

Upgrade from StoreFront 2.1 to 2.5 Fails

Upgrade from StoreFront 2.1 to 2.5 fails. Event log reported the following error: CitrixStoreFront-x64.msi' failed with error code 1603. Fatal error during installation. StoreFront log from the installation reported the following error: Remove-DSFeatureInstance: Error Access to the path...

Error: "HVM is Required for this Operation" when Trying to Start the VM in XenServer

Example 1 When trying to start the virtual machine VMthe following error is returned: “ There were no servers available to start VM ” The reason is displayed as “ HVM Hardware Virtual Machine is required for this operation ” Example 2 When trying to migrate a Windows VM from one host to another...

Error: "Could not update master user list" while changing LDAP Config

Error on XenMobile Server- Could not update master user list error: "Could not update master user list" while changing LDAP Config...

How to Configure a Promiscuous Virtual Machine in XenServer

This article describes how to configure a Virtual Machine VM running on XenServer to behave promiscuously on the network, that is, allow it to see all network traffic on the Physical Network Interface PIF. Certain applications, such as network diagnostic or performance monitoring tools, might...

How to Modify Network Speed and Duplexing

This article describes how to change speed, duplex, and auto-negotiation on a network interface in XenServer. Requirements Console access required, if reconfiguring the management interface...

Troubleshooting Linux Virtual Machines in XenServer

This article describes about troubleshooting Linux virtual machines in XenServer. Serial console was used to access UNIX server consoles and most of the network devices switches, routes. The simplicity of serial port hardware and its universality make them popular. Serial console apart from...

How to Configure Multipath Boot from SAN during XenServer Upgrade or Patch

This article describes how to configure multipath boot from Storage Area Network SAN when upgrading or patching XenServer. The upgrade or patching of XenServer can leave the initial ram disk initrd without multipath support...

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...

User Profiles are Created on StoreFront Servers

StoreFront stops working from a full disk or a hard drive that is out of space. User Profiles are created on the Receiver StoreFront server for users of either Receiver for Web or Receiver clients...

Failure of TSBBDM.BIN File Download

Downloadingtsbbdm.bin fails as shown in the following screenshot:...

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...

Blue Screen with Error Code 0x0000007B When Booting a Target from a vDisk Using Target Device Software 6.x or 7.x

When booting a Target from a vDisk using Target Device Software 6.x or 7.x, you might get a Blue Screen with error code 0x0000007B and the following error description: “ERROR: SOCKET…” The error description will contain additional values as shown in the following screen shot:...

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...

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:...

How to Move a XenServer Pool to a Different IP Subnet

This article describes how to change the IP subnet assigned to the management network on a XenServer pool. This procedure is long compared to changing the IP address while staying in the same subnet. Requirements Working knowledge of XenServer and XenCenter and basic knowledge of the Command Line...

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...

Relating IntelliCache and In-memory Read Caching

Introduced in XenServer 5.6 SP1, IntelliCache is designed to reduce the volume of storage I/O hitting the network and the storage repository SR shared with other hosts. Introduced in XenServer 6.5, in-memory read-caching is designed to reduce the volume of storage I/O hitting an SR and reduce I/O...

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...

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...

Targets Booting Very Slowly - Windows Splash Seen for over 10 Minutes

New deployment targets taking over 10 minutes to boot. Background Target device gets to the Windows splash and then it takes over 15 minutes to load Windows. After Windows loads, there is no performance problem...

Error: "SR BACKEND FAILURE 181" in XenServer

After installation or upgrade to XenServer 6.0, user experiences issues with any storage related operations. The following error message appears: “SRBACKENDFAILURE181 Error In metadata Volume Operation For SR.” The following entries appears in the log /var/log/SMlog file: Error code:...

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...

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...

How to Troubleshoot Provisioning Services Server Machine Account Password

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

Error: "The Login is from an Untrusted Domain and Cannot be used with Windows Authentication" Appears when Launching Provisioning Services Console

When launching the Provisioning Services Console, the critical error message appears, “Critical Error A database error occurred. Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication.”...

Critical Error: "Unable to contact the database server. Ensure Provisioning Services is configured correctly"

When starting Provisioning Services Console, the following error appears: “Critical Error: Unable to contact the database server. Ensure Provisioning Services is configured correctly”. Background After running the Configuration Wizard and configuring a user account for the Provisioning Services,...

"Error 1722 . There is a problem with the Windows Installer package" on Provisioning Services

When removing or Installing the Citrix Provisioning Services PVS Server Console or Citrix Provisioning Services PVS target Device X64 from Add/Remove Programs or Provisioning services ISO, the following error message appears: “Error 1722. There is a problem with the Windows Installer package.A...

Provisioning Services Time Synchronization Requirements

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

Provisioning Services Target Device Fails to Download tsbbdm.bin

Booting a Provisioning Services PVS target device through the Boot ISO method created by the Boot Device Manager utility fails with the following error: "Downloading tsbbdm.bin from FAILED!"...

How to Capture a Network Trace for a PVS Target Device

This article describes how to capture a target-side network trace from a Provisioned Services PVS machine. Requirements Hypervisors: XenServer 5.x XenServer 6.x VMware ESX 4.x VMware ESXi 5.x Hyper-V 2012 Or Physical Environment including but not limited to HP/IBM/Dell/Cisco target devices...

Provisioning Services Boot Process Diagram

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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...

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:...

BGP Routing and RHI Functionality in NetScaler

This article provides information about BGP routing in NetScaler and some of the sample BGP configurations. It gives a brief overview of the RHI functionality. Route Health Injection RHI The primary purpose of dynamic routing in NetScaler is to communicate the state or health of VIPs to the...

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:...

Understanding Subnet Affinity and Auto Rebalance

This article details the Subnet Affinity and Auto Rebalance features and also provides the best practices for their use. Subnet Affinity When assigning the server and NIC combination to provide a vDisk to target devices, select from the following subnet settings: None: Ignore subnets; use least...

Uninstallation of the Citrix License Server Fails with Error 1722

The uninstallation of the Citrix License Server fails and the following error message is displayed: “Product: Citrix Licensing -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or...