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In XIA Configuration Server version 7 we added the ability to document Microsoft PowerShell settings In version 7.1 we're updating this and also including information about the WinRM (WS-MAN) configuration. WinRM is the technology that underpins PowerShell remoting and can be configured to use either HTTP or HTTPS as the transport protocol. XIA Configuration can help your network audit by providing information on Whether WinRM is installed Trusted hosts settings Whether auto create listeners is enabled Whether the compatibility listener settings are enabled in Group Policy Details of manually created listeners. Interested? If you would like to try XIA Configuration , download the free trial version , or visit our purchase page.

We've had a problem today installing App-V which I thought I'd share Error 25109.The installation program could not create the configuration data store. Please see the installation log file for more information. We were using a local SQL Express database and even though we were running as a Domain Admin on the test domain it turns out the user account didn't have sysadmins rights on the SQL server. A simple and quick fix. If you're having problems it's worth running SQL Management Studio as the user you are running the installation as and trying to create the database and checking for errors.

XIA Configuration helps Managed Support Providers (MSPs) from large to small, automate technical documentation at each phase of the MSP lifecycle. For more information see the following page of our site http://www.centrel-solutions.com/XIAConfiguration/features.aspx?feature=ManagedServiceProviders

When using Citrix XenApp 6.0 or 6.5 you may see the following error viewing a Load Balancing Policy's users tab. System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. When you execute the Get-XALoadBalancingPolicyFilter you get the following error Get-XALoadBalancingPolicyFilter : Error resolving account 0X1/NT/DEMOXENAPP/S-1-5-21-1119390013-2107715993-1139858522-1118 (0x80130002) At line:1 char:1 + Get-XALoadBalancingPolicyFilter pol1 + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo           : InvalidResult: (System.Collecti...[System.String]:String) [Get-XALoadBalancingPolicyFilt    er], CitrixException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ResolveDNToAccountName,Citrix.XenApp.Commands.GetPolicyFilterCmdlet This can occur if the user specified has been deleted and the user name cannot be resolved. Just click continue on the error message however valid account names may

Interested in Windows server audit? Why not check out our audit and documentation tool ? When installing the Windows Management Framework 3.0 you may see the error "The update is not applicable to your computer". Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64 Windows6.0-KB2506146-x64 Windows6.0-KB2506146-x86 Windows6.1-KB2506143-x86 This error is slightly confusing as the update may be applicable but the prerequisites are installed. For example for Windows Server 2008 R2 ensure that Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is installed and the full version of .NET Framework 4.0 is also installed.

Having been working with Citrix XenApp products over the last two weeks we've been inundated with problems with the product. The latest seems to be that the Get-XALoadBalancingPolicyFilter does not provide the information correctly. When running the command Get-XALoadbalancingFilter you get the same PowerShell output regardless what is configured in the user interface "Any Connection" or "Any connection that meets the any of the following filters". It is therefore impossible to use PowerShell to accurately determine the current access control configuration settings. It's also not very reassuring that the text in the user interface is written incorrectly. The following scrreenshot displays the user interface with different configuration settings and the corresponding PowerShell cmdlet output incorrectly showing the same configuration settings. We've raised this issue with Citrix, if anyone else has any experience of this please let us

When using Citrix StoreFront we have seen this error recently this week.Unable to make successful connection to data source using provider 'System.Data.SqlClient' and connection string 'Integrated Security=SSPI;Server=DEMO-XA65-01\CITRIX_METAFRAME;Database=Citrix_StoreFront_Store'. This can occur because the user running the store is configure in IIS as the Application Pool identity and this user account doesn't have access to the SQL Server database. Check the SQL server configuration and grant the user access to the database.

When accessing Citrix XenApp 7.5 StoreFront web it shows the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." Server Error in '/Citrix/StoreWeb' Application. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. This can occur if the authentication methods have been updated in the Authentication section but not within the Receiver for Web section.

When using the Citrix Web Interface Management Console you may see no sites and the error "The correct version of web interface is not installed on this computer" is displayed   This can occur when the IIS 6 Management Compatibility server role feature is not installed.  

We've recently had an issue where the Citrix Web Interface Management Tool reports the error "The deployment tool, sitemgr.exe, returned an error during site enumeration" and no XenApp Web Sites or XeApp Services Sites are displayed in the list. This error can occur if any site is missing the bootstrap.conf file. You can actually view the sites from the command line (using the very sitemgr.exe tool accused of reporting the problem by the MMC) and then resolve the one with the issue C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Web Interface\ 5.4.0 \sitemgr.exe -i Why not check out server audit tools, XIA Configuration Server ?

If you've every tried you'll know that you cannot monitor VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapters (such as the virtual NAT adapter created by VMware Workstation) with Microsoft Network Monitor (NetMon) . These virtual network adapters are not supported by NetMon however good news, they are supported by Wireshark. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

We've been doing a lot of work with PowerShell and got stuck on a problem attempting to connect to a remote PowerShell machine (for example using Enter-PSSession) with the following error. Connecting to remote server servername failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request because the server name cannot be resolved. This was very strange as the computer name could be resolved and we could connect using telnet servername 5985 It turns out that WinRM is using system proxy settings which were unfortunately set to invalid values from back when we were testing documenting system proxy settings for our Windows server agent . You can check your system proxy settings using the following command netsh winhttp show proxy As you can see from the screenshot are the invalid values we'd been testing with. Ops.

We've started work on Citrix XenApp support for XIA Configuration Server and have been hampered by issues with the Citrix products so have decided to write about these as we experience them. Firstly... When trying to use the Citrix Receiver storefront in Citrix XenApp 6.5 you receive the following error Type is not resolved for member 'Microsoft.Practices.Unity.ResolutionFailedException,Microsoft.Practices.Unity, Version=2.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'. Citrix have a fix available here http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133237