Notes from the field: Another cannot complete your request with Citrix FAS

We’ve all seen it time and time again some misconfiguration with Citrix StoreFront and/or Citrix FAS and you’ll be getting the cannot complete your request message in your screen. Digging in the StoreFront logs and you’ll be seeing the most interesting messages of error kind in which you would think am I a rocket professor?

My story for this certain scenario would be a CVAD deployment integrated with FAS and everything working just fine with some minor bumps like adding your resources to the Windows Authorization Access Group and magic occurs things start to work. See Cannot Complete Your Request Error only occurs to certain users connecting from ADC with Azure MFA over to Storefront (citrix.com) for the fun of it and it’s buddy Common Resolutions to “Cannot Complete Your Request” Error when connecting directly to StoreFront Server (citrix.com)

Ok well this works! Happy customer, happy consultant. And after some time of testing the customer started to migrate existing users to this solution… And stuff didn’t work.. The same error as described in the article would occur and well not so happy customer and consultant now. Troubleshooted this and what the hell new users don’t have this problem.. only existing users! Euhm.. okay.. after some more discussion with the customer it was pointed out that this domain has been alive for a while like NT time while and upgraded to the latest and greatest Windows Server 2019.

This triggered me and after some searching came across Apps and APIs require access – Windows Server | Microsoft Docs which explained the truth! We are missing stuff. I did a compare of the groups “Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access” and “Windows Authorization Access Group” of the customer with my own and even a brand new test setup and there the following was missing:

Seems like upgrading a domain time and time again stuff won’t get added. After adding these objects all began to work and even the manual added resources don’t need to be in there like the CVAD servers, users object.

Hope it helps!


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