Problem. A Client had an network attached WD MyCloud 3TB Drive and had attempted to attach an external 3TB disk (re-purposed with an external JMicron Hard drive caddy) Regardless of formatting it as NTFS, exFAT -the JMicron controller was being recognised but the 3TB Disk partition swasnt Solution. Attach the disk to windows and ensure […]
We found a network bridging issue for a client running VMWare workstation 10. The VM would ‘sometimes’ connect to the production / corporate network and obtain a DHCP address. Othertimes it would not and it would get an APIPA address instead. (169.254.x.x) Various internet posts suggested Disconnecting the Virtual nic – NO SUCCESS Upgrade the […]
We recently had to move the Citrix Edgesight SSRS report server for a client for their Citrix Edgesight services. Worth noting the following caveats when moving the SSRS report server location from edgesight All Custom reports are deleted All existing report subscriptions are deleted The standard edgesight reports will be uploaded to the new server […]
In an update of Android OS Google introduced the smart auto wireless performance checking. When connecting to a wireless network you would see, “checking the quality of your internet connection” Effectively android checks the speed of the wireless connection to the Internet if its not stable or quick enough this thr connection is deemed […]
Here is a quick tip for App-V 5 local publishing of an App-V client package After packaging an application recently, we wanted to test it locally first before adding to the App-V shared content store, or distributing it via the App-V infrastructure mode servers etc. You may however come across some errors when trying to add and […]
Problem: Citrix Receiver 4.2 BSOD (and 4.1) During the installation of the new Citrix Receiver 4.2 (and 4.1), laptops, desktops and VMs were all blue screening at about 70% through the installation process. STOP: 0x000000CA And on restart we received Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4 Locale ID: 2057 Additional information […]
Situation Added a new list of Computers to begin accessing our App-V 5 Infrastructure. The access to the servers and share are driven by AD Group “App-V Citrix Computers” and “App-V LT or DT Computers” etc Error AppV 5 Publishing Error 0x74F00F0C Event ID: 1008, Error, Logname Microsoft-AppV-Client/Admin With creating the new group for desktops […]
When installing the PVS target agent the PVS Target fails to Copy. PVS is unable to work with the reserved windows partition. Follow this fantastic guide to move the boot files, set the C: drive active, reboot (sometimes twice) then delete the reserved partition and then start the PVS target again. http://danielruiz.net/category/citrix/pvs/page/2/
Situation: We had a number of production VMs running a Citrix desktop workload on Citrix Xenapp 6.5 via Citrix PVS 7.1 (SP3) with cache to RAM with overflow to hard drive, set at 2048Mb. VMware Hypervisor 5.5 and Appv 5 SP2 with HRP4 running in full infrastructure mode (no Microsoft SCCM) and 30GB of packages running […]
Ive seen this error a number of times: Misconfiguration of storefront server itself The server has just rebooted and IIS is still starting up A firewall preventing the storefront server(s) getting back to the SNIP of the Netscaler(s) and now today… Today I added a new Delivery controller in Storefront 2.5 so I could publish […]