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We've now updated XIA Configuration Server to document AppDNA connection settings in Citrix Studio. This is what it's going to look like in the next release...

We've just been testing our XenDesktop documentation script against the latest release of XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7.9 and noticed that we need to resolve the latest administrator rights to their human-readable strings, for example "AppDisk_AddScope" becomes "Add AppDisk to Scope". To do this we generated a report of the permissions assigned to a user and were a little worried that these reports don't contain all of the information about the permissions assigned to a user. For example we added some of the new AppDisk permissions to a role and assigned a user to that role. Then generated a report for that user It appears that the permission report isn't aware of the new permissions (AppDNA is there however the AppDisk settings are not seen). A little worrying from a security perspective.

I have Installed and Configured AppDNA but unable to Login, what is the default Username and Password? So you've installed AppDNA and try and login  however you get the error "Invalid username or password". This is because AppDNA installs with a default well-known username and password (which is therefore completely pointless). Thanks Citrix. Here's the login details   Username: administrator Password: apps3cur3    

When you're trying to run 64-bit hosts inside a virtualized ESXi host you may get the following error. The virtual machine requires hardware features that are unsupported or disabled on the target host:  * Longmode: required for 64-bit guest OS support. On Intel systems, longmode requires VT-x to be enabled in the BIOS. On nested virtual ESX hosts, longmode support normally requires upgrading your VM to ESX 5.1 compatibility level (VM version 9) and enabling the "Virtualized Hardware Virtualization" flag on the outer VM.    For incompatibilities other than NX/XD or longmode: if possible, use a cluster with Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) enabled; see KB article 1003212.    Even though the processor mode is set to Intel VT-x or AMD-V This is quite simple to fix, you just need to enable nested virtual machines by adding the following line to your ESXi virtual machines .vmx file vhv.enable = "TRUE" More information can be found in this arti...

When you try to create a machine catalog in Citrix XenDesktop you might get a very confusing error such as the one below. Error Id: XDDS:19E984FA Exception:     Citrix.Console.Models.Exceptions.ProvisioningTaskException Failed to copy the snapshot image /DEMO-CTX01.vm/Citrix_XD_Test.snapshot to the storage referenced by the Resources DEMO-ESX51i-02.        at Citrix.Console.PowerShellSdk.ProvisioningSchemeService.BackgroundTasks.ProvisioningSchemeTask.CheckForTerminatingError(SdkProvisioningSchemeAction sdkProvisioningSchemeAction)        at Citrix.Console.PowerShellSdk.ProvisioningSchemeService.BackgroundTasks.ProvisioningSchemeTask.WaitForProvisioningSchemeActionCompletion(Guid taskId, Action`1 actionResultsObtained)        at Citrix.Console.PowerShellSdk.ProvisioningSchemeService.BackgroundTasks.ProvisioningSchemeCreationTask.StartProvisioningAction()    ...

When using AdvancedInstaller you may see the following error ODBC Connect: Timeout Exceeded ...when you are using the SQL Server ODBC driver and TLS 1.0 has been disabled. You can test this using the following PowerShell Script (modify the connection string as you need). Write-Host "Connecting..." $connection = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection $connection . ConnectionString = "Driver={SQL Server};Server= localhost\SQLExpress ; Trusted_Connection=yes; Database= dbXIAConfiguration " $connection . Open() $connection . Close() Write-Host "Connected" If this is the same error you will see the following Connection Failed: SQLState: '01000' SQL Error: 1 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (SECCreateCredentials()). Connection failed: SQLState: '08001' SQL Error: 18 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB] SSL Security error NOTE: The SSL Securi...