Tag: XenDesktop
Notes from the field: Citrix CVAD site and the year destruction bug
Just for the holiday we got a strange issue that from the CVAD side and MCS updates the interactions wouldn’t work anymore and that machines would stay on and no power cycle actions would be working throughout the night for the daily reboots. After a troubleshoot with the customer we found out that one of…
Notes from the field: The Kerberos chronicles, the one with certificate-based authentication
If you’ve read my previous Kerberos chronicles blogs you see a trend with the Microsoft patches, hardening updates and with this one the upcoming strong mapping / full enforcement mode of certificate-based authentication. See the following article for explanation: KB5014754—Certificate-based authentication changes on Windows domain controllers – Microsoft Support This one is going to have…
Notes from the lab: Citrix StoreFront 2203 and the cannot complete request
A quick blog regarding my Citrix lab upgrade from Citrix Virtual Apps and Dekstops (CVAD) 1912CU4 to 2203 and the little StoreFront snag I hit. Summary of my setup: Two Delivery controllers Two StoreFront servers cohabitating with Director as well Two FAS servers Two WEM servers One unmanaged VDA worker And a Citrix ADC HA…
Notes from the field: XenDesktop RemotePC and Multi Licensing
Recently I got involved at a customer location which was going to use Remote PC catalogs in combination with their XenDesktop / XenApp 7.15 environment. This was no problem whatsoever to configure but on closer testing I encountered a bug that when you create for example a delivery group called “Windows 10 Remote PC” and…
Notes from the lab: Windows Server 2016 black screen when launching any application
I came across an issue in my lab environment where the screen will go black while launching a session on Windows Server 2016. This is with XenApp/XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR The following registry entry: DisableLogonUISuppression (D WORD Value 0) did not resolve the issue as stated in the following articles: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034661/windows-10-update-kb4034661 and https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225819 Ultimatly after some…
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…