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You receive the message: “Thanks for evaluating Citrix XenDesktop. The evaluation period is now near to its end…” when you log onto your virtual desktops even though you’ve entered your Citrix XenDesktop licenses

January 20, 2012
Citrix, Uncategorized, XenDesktop

Problem You’ve been using an evaluation license for your XenDesktop 5.5 environment and as your licenses came closer to expiring, you started receiving a warning message. You proceed with purchasing

Logging onto from a Citrix Web Interface server throws the error: Please verify your user name and password and try logging on again. If you cannot log on, contact your help desk.” with event IDs 2307 logged on your XenApp server

January 20, 2012
Citrix, Uncategorized, XenApp

Problem You’re attempting to log into your Citrix environment via the Web Interface server’s website but after entering your credentials, you receive the following error message: Please verify your user

Creating a new catalog in Citrix Desktop Studio with XenDesktop 5.5 throws the error: “Failed to create a computer account; computerName, due to an unknown error.” “Failed to add any computer accounts.”

January 19, 2012
Citrix, Uncategorized, XenDesktop

Problem You attempt to create a new catalog in Citrix Desktop Studio with XenDesktop 5.5 but the process throws the error: Failed to create a computer account; computerName, due to

Installing Citrix XenDesktop 5.0 SP1 or 5.5 with VMware vSphere 5.0 with distributed switches throws the error “Error expanding node” while selecting a cluster and throws the error “An unhandled error was thrown by the service.” if you select the cluster with the error

January 17, 2012
Citrix, Uncategorized, XenDesktop

Problem Environment: XenDesktop 5.0 SP1 or 5.5 Operating System: Windows Server 2008 R2 Back-end SQL Server: SQL Server 2008 R2 XenDesktop: Version 5.0 SP1 or 5.5 Virtualization Technology: VMware vSphere

Citrix Web Interface 5.4 prompts for authentication with “Windows Security” window

January 16, 2012
Citrix, Uncategorized, XenApp, XenDesktop

Problem Ran into an issue today where I was getting inconsistent behavior from different user accounts while testing pass-through authentication with the Citrix Web Interface 5.4 servers. Some users would

VMware View error messages related network connectivity

January 16, 2012
Uncategorized, VMware

This won’t be a detailed about how to fix these errors but more of a post with specific error messages I can reference to in the future to know that

Citrix XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 5.5 SQL Database Configuration

January 15, 2012
Citrix, Uncategorized, XenApp, XenDesktop

I’m not sure if it’s just me but I always find it difficult to search for certain Citrix information and documentation that I’m looking for. One of the recent searches

Creating new Catalog in Desktop Studio intermittently fails with an error referencing the Citrix article CTX127068 or the error message: “An unhandled error was thrown by the service. The Machine Creation service could not start the task to copy the master virtual image, imageName, to the host storage, dataCenterName.”

January 15, 2012
Citrix, Uncategorized, XenDesktop

Ran into an interesting issue a month ago just before my vacation when trying to create a new catalog with XenDesktop 5.5’s Desktop Studio where the creation would intermittently fail

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