Month: February 2017
Notes from the field: XenMobile Location services and SQL deadlocks
Came across a pretty specific issue in a large mobility environment regarding an old value from XenMobile 9 and still present in XenMobile 10, this is called device triangulation, with this the mobile service provider can triangulate the exact location from the device with constant updates regarding there location (this was an old value which…
Notes from the field: Provisioning Services 7.11/7.12 TLS 1.2 issue
Citrix Provisioning Servers can be showing a offline status because the SQL native client version (11.0.2100.60) installed with it will not support TLS 1.2 and due to this it will give an error in event viewer with event ID 11 – Undefined database error Installing the latest version of SQL native client on the PVS…
Notes from the field: Quick win: XenMobile remove bulk redeemed enrollments
When you are using enrollment invitations and you don’t clean this up for let’s say an environment with a few thousand of users/devices this could be a time absorbing action to do. Luckily there is a quick win for this and you’ll want to create a query for “dbo.ENROLLMENT_PASS” on the Database server and remove…
Notes from the field: NetScaler Upgrade Articles
Quick win see the following article for the all you can need regarding NetScaler upgrade articles: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220371
Notes from the field: XenServer 7 mouse alignment MCS/PVS machines and XenServer 7 MCS XenTools
Came across two bugs on a XenServer 7 deployment in combination with XenDesktop/XenApp 7.12 worth sharing: The first is a mouse alignment issue which results in VNC mouse pointer slowness or disalignment of the pointer on a console session in XenServer, the following can check the status of the usb and usb_tablet parameters on the…