Somewhere down the line, Citrix Admins need to upgrade their Citrix Site from one version to another, Example, from XenDesktop 71.5 LTSR to CVAD 1912 LTSR. For Citrix site upgrade, we have to mount the product ISO in Citrix server and run the setup file. But What about VDIs?
Based on your company’s VDA usage, you may have hundreds to thousands of VDIs in your company. How do you upgrade VDA agent on all those VDIs?
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As part of day to day tasks, one of the major activity for citrix admins is to maintain free VDIs in xendesktop delivery groups. If we dont have registered free VDI machines, and when new users try to connect to VDI, they would get errors like “Cannot start VM”. So, we have to make sure we have enough free VDIs in delivery groups. As a part of this process, I wrote a powershell script that would auto provision new VDIs to a given catalog and add them to delivery group.
In a Citrix NetScaler appliance, the Management CPU is responsible for handling management tasks such as configuration, monitoring, and reporting. On the other hand, the Packet Engine CPU is dedicated to processing network traffic, including tasks like load balancing, SSL offloading, and content switching.
The Management CPU is used for handling administrative tasks and does not directly impact the processing of network traffic. It is responsible for managing the configuration of the NetScaler appliance, monitoring its performance, and handling administrative tasks such as logging and reporting.
Issue:
When users click on the app, it loads the receiver, starts the dialog box which says loading profile, scripts, getting ready etc and the progress bar completes. Just before the application launch, it disappears. Session is created on the server but application wont launch on user’s device.
Error:
The Citrix Universal DLL injection driver has encountered an unexpected error.
Event id: 1005 on the app server(VDA server).
Solution:
Restarting the app server will temporarily fix the issue.
In order to disable citrix workspace for mac software auto update in macbook, run below commands on elevated macbook terminal.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 # To view all com folders for citrix sudo launchctl list | grep com.citrix /Library/LaunchDaemons - com.citrix.ctxworkspaceupdater.plist - rename it to _old /library/application support/citrix receiver/ctxworkspaceupdater - rename it to _old /library/application support/citrix receiver/Citrix Workspace Updater - rename it to _old Open citrix workspace and check for updates.
Issue:
Randomly on netscaler 13.1 51.15, 13.0.71.44 to 13.0.85.15 versions, when users open citrix netscaler gateway portal page, enter their credentials and click signin, they are redirected to the citrix netscaler gateway portal page again with username and password prompt instead of logging in and showing the applications/desktops.
Solution:
Goto your storefront server, select stores to the left, and select “manage receiver for web sites” option to the right. select your receiver for web URL, click configure.
Issue:
After logging into netscaler gateway portal, users get “Cannot complete your request” error.
Solution:
You should be able to ping your storefront base URL from your storefront server. If not, you ll get “there was an error during a resources list request” error in your storefront server. End users will get “Cannot complete your request” error after logging into the netscaler gateway portal.
You will have multiple storefront servers for your citrix site.
Issue:
When you login to storefront or netscaler gateway, users would end up in “There are no apps or desktops assigned to you at this time” error.
Solution:
There are multiple solutions to this error.
First check if user is added to the delivery group (if restricted groups or users has access on delivery group) Add user to the application If your storefront is configured as https on netscaler session policy, make sure you have certificate installed on the storefront.
Introduction CVE-2023-4966 and CVE-2023-4967 are critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, respectively, that affect NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway from Citrix. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on affected devices.
CVE-2023-4966 is a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to remotely access sensitive information from vulnerable NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. This information may include usernames, passwords, cookies, and other authentication credentials.
