Recently I was working on a XenDesktop 7.6 project where we were seeing virtual machines continuously powering on and off occur when more than one machine catalog was added to…
XenDesktop Appears Suck on Applying Group Policy Registry Policy
Logging into a new XenDesktop session users randomly appear to be stuck on Microsoft Windows logon screen “Applying Group Policy Registry Policy”. However when adjusting the size from window mode…
Group Policy Preference Items not applying
Group Policy Intermittently Failing to Process Our team was asked to take a look at an escalated ticket about intermittent issues with missing icons, profile settings, and various group policy…
How to Find the Last Connected User from XenDesktop Studio
Sometimes you need to find the last virtual machine a user logged into. This could be for numerous reasons, but one of the main reasons I need to find the…
Allow Additional Time for Applications or Desktops to Start.
XenApp Applications or XenDesktop failing to start- First you should figure out why the application is taking so long to start. There really shouldn’t be any reason why your users…
Using SysInternals RAMMAP to Verify PVS vDisk System Cache
Verifying Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) vDisk System Cache 1.Reboot one of your PVS to clear the current system cache. 2. Open SysInternals RAMMap. 3. Boot up 1 target device and…
Citrix Provisioning Services Show Connected Devices Timeout Error
PVS 7 Show Connected Devices Timeout Error If your having issues viewing the target devices connected to PVS by clicking on “Show Connected Devices” you will need to update the…
XD Wizard and Streamed VM Template Hardware Order
When creating multiple virtual machines for a new XenDesktop Machine Catalog, I noticed that the wizard wasn’t honoring the templates hardware boot order. New virtual machines started up and gave…
XenDesktop 7.X Studio Policies Error
How to Fix Citrix discrepancy Policy Errors- If you ever get the error below when you open up Citrix Studio, click on the Policies node and see this error. (Changes…
The citrix receiver received a corrupt ica file the name (unauthorized”:true) is not allowed for a section
The Citrix receiver received a corrupt ICA file the name (unauthorized”:true) is not allowed for a section. Here’s a couple things that I did to fix similar corrupt ICA messages…
The connection to “virtual_desktop” failed with status (1110)
Connection Failed with status (1110)- Some users reported that they were having issues when trying to connect to their XenDesktop 7.6 virtual machine through Netscaler Gateway. They received the following…
Citrix XenDesktop Machine Catalog Limits
Adding more than 999 virtual machines to a Random Pooled/PVS Machine Catalog in XenDesktop 7.6 gave us the error below. To correct this issue install Hotfix Update 3 – For…
Installing Director WMI Provider on XenApp 6.5
When Installing DirectorWMIProvider_x64.msi on a XenApp 6.5 server, I was getting a error “Service ‘Director Windows Management Instrumentation Provider’ (DirectorWMIProviderHost.exe) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to…