Situation: USB Drive attached to the XenServer host, need to mount directly into a VM for removable usb drive access. Solution: Download the usbmount.bat from http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX118198 Edit the file with your xenserver details and your vm and usb uuid’s. HOW DO I FIND MY XENSERVER VM UUID? bring up a console session on the XenServer […]
Problem: Windows 7 Installed XENTools – but after multiple attempts and installations its still not registered in XenCenter 6.0 Also ensure the RPC Service are running. Solution: Install .net Framework 4.0 FULL (including extended features) – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851 MSCONFIG can play a part in this also – in my instance i had to restart all services […]
Problem: The XENAPP servers are not recording the session disconnects Solution: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlCitrix] “LogBrokenConnections”=dword:00000001 Event Log: System Event Type: Warning Event Log ID: 9032 Tested on: XenApp 5.0 FP3w R01, Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 Standard & Enterprise
Problem: The max console resolutIon of any server via XenCenter seems to be 1024×768 @ 24bit. I wanted to increase this for my console as at times this is the only way to access it. Solution: The consoles support 1280x 768 but only @ 16bit. Advanced Properties of the Display settings > Adapter Tab > List All […]
Situation: Windows 2008 SP2 Standards Servers on ESX 4.0 Vm’s. The servers had non persistent disks and every monday revert to their original image. The VM’s were recently changed to have 2 vCPU’s. Problem: Come the Monday morning reset all the servers stopped responding and were hanging at boot up on ‘Applying Computer Settings’ and for user […]
Problem: A test server was locking out any and every AD account that logged onto it when launching an ICA session only. Using RDP the account was fine. Windows 2008 Server Enterprise SP2, XenAPP 5.0 FP3 + R01, running on Vmware VM Server The server was rebuilt 3 times. And then windows and citrix patched […]
Problem: Published RPD Desktop was not copying and pasting, yet a direct RDP to the same server worked. Solution: The citrix session sharing was not working for the published application. The citrix server was launching a fresh session on another server (ICA Desktop > Ica Server > RDP > Desktop) No wonder the Cut and […]
Situation:we had migrate from Windows 2003 DC x32 to Windows 2008 DC x64 for certificate servers.Everything working fine until the last steop of importing the old registry settings. When adding the server role of CA Web Enrollment we received the following error message Error Message: Cannot Install Certificate Authority Web Enrollment Active Directory Certificate Services […]
Problem: Upgrading 32 to 64 bit server on VMWARE ESX 4.x would result in a stop when booting the Windows 2008 x64 CD Error Message: STOP: 0x0000005D (0x000000000FEBBBFF,0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000,0x0000000000000000) Resolution: Obvious one really, change the Architecture to be (64 BIT) for the VMWARE properties of the VM
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