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Have you tried using the driver mapping compatibility?  For example of a screenshot, ignore the Universal driver deal and replace it with the exact driver name. Use printer detector to get the correct driver name if needed.

And of course everyone in that office is gone already for the day :beer:

Ended up spinning up a VM for me to test from out there, jackpot, thanks <@ULLH5JGFR>!

Hey, I like it. Awesome and glad to hear.

FWIW, I couldn't get Printer Detective to give me the driver name (probably user error).  In the end I blocked UPM by setting "Only use installed driver" on that test desktop so I could get the printer driver map attempt in event log to get the driver name.

oh that is a good little trick. Never thought of that.

I Never blocked printer drivers with UPM though. ( if that is what you meant?)

nvm, found this - <https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX231864/xendesktop-not-able-to-create-a-new-mcs-machine-catalog>. i'll try it tomorrow.

Anyone run into toast notifications showing the wrong pictures on Server 2019? <https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/406882-outlook-toast-notification-shows-wrong-photo-when-using-wem-profile-management/|https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/406882-outlook-toast-notification-shows-wrong-photo-when-using-wem-profile-management/>

"Test connections" on hosting connections come back all green?
Studio, Config, Hosting, Hosting connection name -&gt; Right Click -&gt; Test Connection; do the same for the Resources under the hosting connection.

Also powershell asnp Citrix* -&gt; Get-BrokerHypervisorConnection | Select Name, State
Do both return "On"?

<https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX294978/citrix-vad-service-unable-to-create-machine-catalog-failed-to-upload-disk>

Your error is giving a 404, not found.  Not a 500, application level error

they elevated the permissions on the cluster.

If these are update packages, I'm not sure why.  It should be blocked/pinned.

Rubber ducky troubleshooting.... I now see that says UpdatePolicy=1

Spoke too soon, flipped to 0.  looks like msedge.dll still auto takes ~215MB

Put them behind an ~ADC~ NetScaler AAA VIP :slightly_smiling_face:
NetScaler Admin page can do AAA similar to this:
<https://www.citrixirc.com/citrix-adc-netscaler-two-factor-authentication-for-admin-access-part-1/>

too funny, i wrote that just a couple days ago.

<https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132956/how-to-create-an-ica-file-with-minimal-parameters>

Thank you <@US423Q1PU> Article says only till 6.5. Did you try it in xendesktop 7.X ?

ok  thank you.. I m trying it anyways. This should help.

To go beyond: <https://stevenlemonier.fr/citrix-logon-simulator/>

Honestly I used what is in studio now, or use the GPO option for ADMXs that Citrix has. Haven’t done this in many years. Not sure if they are still available?

gotcha, thanks.  Yeah my client uses group policy and wants to stick with it.

Load the *Citrix Group Policy Management Plug-in* on your group policy editing machine, and that should give you an idea of what you want

it’s incredibly dumb that you have to download the whole iso to get that file but I don’t think they are hosted with a direct link

Citrix support may have sunk to all time lows, but I still like having support. We've not combined roles.

If you're just doing a POC with a handful users, half the recommended sizes rather than combine roles. 

don't do that, that's a very bad idea. FAS should never be combined with anything other than an issuing CA role, Cloud Connectors also should be standalone as they are effectively owned by Citrix - I agree with Paul

It is for a Citrix DaaS/Gateway Service POC (Azure based Auth/MFA, Azure based AD joined MCS image, existing AD/CA etc), so a couple of B2s should do it then to split the roles onto.

yeah, just get the whole rendezvous piece working and you will reduce the load on the Cloud Connectors etc

Hey, your machine catalogs should be tied to the target vlan/storage via the hosting connection(s) if I recall, check what you got set in there, cheers

Cheers - I set this up months ago and the project has only reactivated this morning, thanks for clearing my brain guff

Just double checked.. so yeah, they should all be defined in the hosting connections, example:

Yep hosting connection you choose during catalog creation controls this.

That's weird, i don't see any networking details under the hosting connection....

Might be time to recreate it methinks....

Hi J, the vlan stuff you see in my screengrab is just text/labelling from what was setup by the VMware team (in this case) so dont let that confuse you :wink:

The configured hosting will be associated with network etc, Id go through the motions of creating a test catalog and it will refresh you whats needed :slightly_smiling_face:

Created a new hosting connection, seems to be getting an IP address OK now. God knows what I put in originally, but it clearly wasn't right :blush:

Result! And its only a Tuesday :slightly_smiling_face: :beers:

Anyone got any links to benchmarking Win10 multisession vrs Win11? I have a customer running in Azure (Server 2016 2203 VDA) looking to modernise desktop/apps etc, keen to have a look at any reports floating around on resource reqs etc, cheers

gray screen has been fixed for us in 2203 CU1...

as Screensharing in Teams optimized Mode is handled by the User Device: Any errors there?

It's the next step, the user having this issues for days is not using a company managed laptop

So I guess it's a user WFH? + check UDP 3481 -&gt; MS Azure <https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/multimedia/opt-ms-teams.html#call-establishment-and-media-flow-paths>

Did they ever fix the issue with BCR for dpi scale higher than 100%

anyone seen it where you install the 2203 VDA it removes the App-V publishing server settings which was set via powershell/registry (App-V personilzation was selected during VDA install)

Hi, All the citrix admin activities from Director and studio are logged under "logging" node in citrix studio. If user reboots VDI from netscaler gateway or storefront URL, are they logged in monitoring database? I mean, will they show under logging node in citrix studio?

if its like any of their recent releases itll be pulled within an hour

I am sure they have so much to test and things happen at times.

The documentation has been published: <https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new.html>

I would estimate for 2203 it would be CU2. Just a guess based on past results. 

CU2 probably someway off, 2206 and 2203 CU1 were release in August.  I guess the next CU is 2209 and due in November?

It will take Citrix a while to test and certify ESXi 8, especially if there are changes to storage or networking. Citrix will have the "Known Issues" document to write in addition to training their "support" people.

Citrix doesn't typically add new features in LTSR CUs. So may have to be a CR or next LTSR for support.

Possibly could happen in a CU. But just something to consider.

<https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-daas/install-configure/resource-location/azure-resource-manager.html#azure-server-side-encryption|https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-daas/install-configure/resource-location/azure-resource-manager.html#azure-server-side-encryption> you will need to use the same keys for the catalog creation as you did to encrypt the image 

what if you repair office after uninstalling jabber? I hate that app but some people still use it...guess its a saving grace to prevent this issue for us lol. what version of jabber as well?

We were on 12.9, but moved off of it two weeks ago.

Haven tried to repair office yet, but we tried to remove Zoom, Jabber, and Teams. Then reinstall just Teams to see if we can get it to work but it won’t with logged in users. What’s interesting is that it works under local admin if I login into Outlook with my account. We’re combing through registry keys to see if we can find anything but everything seems set properly, or the keys we have set to fix it don’t make a difference.

The moment we reinstall Jabber it all starts working again for logged in users.

what if you install the latest version then remove it? maybe itll fix something

<https://www.webex.com/downloads/jabber/jabber-vdi.html>

We don’t use the VDI version in Citrix, but it’s a good thought, we can give it a shot with the desktop client.

We want to use Zoom presence, but the ZoomIMOutlookPlugin.exe keeps shutting down when starting up Outlook which is a separate issue.

So we ended up having to install an old version of Zoom VDI (5.5.6) then did an in place upgrade on top of that and it worked. :man-shrugging::skin-tone-2:

This helped, <https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/413111-teams-presence-addin-not-working-in-oulook/page/2/|https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/413111-teams-presence-addin-not-working-in-oulook/page/2/>

Anyone has a better fix than installing Skype back ?
There must be something better!
<@ULC9J5XPB>

MS had not corrected that issue before I left my last place, so Skype is still in those images. New place doesn't use Teams, so I haven't had to worry about it since.

Seems like our environment is getting hit with an outage, CC's went into HA mode. Anyone else experiencing anything? Citrix's status page is all green.

Haven't seen it as I have never attempted to move a user between OUs, but sounds similar enough to account renames where the broker name cache keeps ahold of the old name and the user can't log in. Haven't done a rename that I'm aware of since I started using FAS though so I don't know if the error would happen or be the same or not....

I have had to run this against all of our delivery controllers to clear the cache and resolve the issue:

Update-BrokerNameCache -Users -Machines -AdminAddress &lt;delivery controller address&gt;

We move users quite frequently and don't see this. Does anything else change with their account or the domain? Groups, forests, etc.

Its just the OU changing, it appears the certificate as displayed on the CA references the OU and it impacts our ability to login.

I move users often and don't see this as well... although I do see the OU in the subject of our user certs.

moved myself here in this window, even changed my default UPN suffix (listed as a SAN entry on the cert) and FAS still worked

ok interesting, chatting with support thanks for the post though

we had something similar with a locked down shared AD, and it turned out that the FAS storefront server couldn't read the OU of the shadow users.  Added the computer accounts of the FAS SF servers and it all started working

na, I just use it as a reference to compare CLI parameters.

and  this.... NICE
<https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new.html#microsoft-teams-optimization>

My place isn't a Teams shop, so I guess I don't have to care anymore, haha.

ooh, new CVAD! Let the actual public beta testing begin :smirk:

never saw that teams error. would much rather prefer some incredible teams optimization instead

I can promise you they are putting in the work on Teams. IMHO they took teams way further than skype. If you have any Teams questions, <@ULC9J5XPB> is the Team GURO LOL.

I see a new VDA install switch. Anyone know wth is this ?
`Citrix Web Socket VDA Registration Tool`

VDA Command line install is broken again...Citrix I'm about to send you a bill for free QA!

well it's mentioned here at least
<https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new.html>

but this doc for Daas has yet to be updated.
<https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-daas/install-configure/install-command.html>

<@ULDHJB8BB> The WEM agent isn’t deployed with 2209, its one of the great changes :exploding_head:.

Anyone else notice that the PVS 2209 download actually downloads 2206?

The separate download for PVS 2209, that is. The link in the CVAD 2209 section works.

I did an in place upgrade of the VDA and I had stuck sessions (grey screen). I had to uninstall 2206 and reinstall 2209.

My new place has gotten into the habit of using the VDA removal tool before every upgrade.

it is the way.  If you can't build fresh.

Yeah, for non-persistent, we use App Layering, so it's always fresh.

I don't disagree but I though they were suppose to include the cleanup tool in the install process. It's not rocket science.

Plus with the VDA Auto Update feature one would think they would ensure the upgrade process is 100% solid.

I know it's included in 2203 LTSR. Wouldn't that have been included in 2206 CR?

Wait, I'm thinking of something else, ignore that.

I never had any luck with VDA upgrades. I thought they included it as well? I guess I was mistaken. 

To me, they are like windows monolithic updates ; 2016 to 2019, 10 to 11,  better to build clean :toothbrush::bubbles:

still need to be addressed by Citrix and taken seriously. The new VDA auto update feature could be a game changer for persistent VDI!

<@ULDHJB8BB>: have you found out some details about Citrix Web Socket VDA Registration Tool

I asked our Citrix rep about this yesterday, so if he gets back to me I'll post it here.

I must be the only one that is scared to death to even think of turning on the auto update feature. you're guaranteed to be a beta tester with this on...

You can change the VDA registration port as per <https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX331367/how-to-update-vda-registration-port-on-ddc>
But the VDA registration protocol itself doesn't use TLS, read this: <https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/secure/tls.html#communication-between-controller-and-vda>
"Windows Communication Framework (WCF) message-level protection secures communication between the Controller and the VDA. Extra transport-level protection using TLS is not required."

VDA registration is a broker-wide setting, so not something you could change per delivery group.

you could do something as simple as Get-BrokerSession -Computername blah | Stop-BrokerSession

That may work, but i would like to log off the users, make some scripted changes or updates, then script it to reboot.

yeah, just do that first, with some timer.. it can take sometime to logout 10+ users on a system, say 15 minutes, then run another scheduled task

or you can run some form of check to see if users are still logged in

```try {
   query user /server:$computer 2&gt;&amp;1 | select -skip 1 | foreach {
     logoff ($_ -split "\s+")[-6] /server:$computer
   }
}
catch {}```

Thanks, when it reboots do you need to start-brokerSession

Depends on what your trying to achieve. Assuming two citrix sites? 

To use MCS in each datcenter setup a host connection for each datacenter Into you CVAD site. Then if you want a golden image in each datacenter setup with one CVAD then yes.

okay, so it looks like i'll need a seperate master image and catalog for the secondary data center

Replicate the master image from datacenter1 to datacenter2