Workspace Environment Manager – Capture Screen

Workspace Environment Manager has a cool little feature for end users to use called ‘Capture Screen’, it can be accessed by right clicking on the WEM Agent in the System Tray.

This utility captures the users screen and lets them either Save the image or send it straight to a pre-configured email address (Service Desk etc). Enable Screen Capture in the WEM Administration Console under:

Advanced Settings > UI Agent Personalization > Helpdesk Options

By default the Comments field is greyed out on the end point and needs to be enabled within the WEM Administration Console.

To enable the Comments field you need to put the WEM variable “##UserScreenCaptureComment##” (without quotes) anywhere in the ‘Email Template’ field as below.

After putting in the variable, apply the settings in the WEM Administration Console and then refresh the WEM Agent on the end point. Now when selecting Capture Screen the Comments field is enabled for user input.

You can use a combination of variables through the Custom Subject and Email Template as below, remembering that ##UserScreenCaptureComment## needs to be somewhere in the Email Template.

User Comment:    ##UserScreenCaptureComment##
User Name:           ##UserName##
Display Name:      ##FullUserName##
XenApp Server:   ##ComputerName##
RDS Session ID:   ##RDSSessionID##
Client Name:       ##ClientName##

Refer here for possible variables to use: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/workspace-environment-management/current-release/reference/dynamic-tokens.html

Citrix Self-Service Password Reset “Cannot access your server address!”

Environment:

• Windows Server 2016
• Citrix XenApp 7.15
• Citrix XenApp Self-Service Password Reset 1.1.0.15097

Issue:

Creating a new ‘User Configuration’ in the ‘Enable Self-Service Password Reset’ section

• The Service Address returns and error “Cannot access your service address!”.

• Browsing to https://fqdn/MPMService returns “Error 403 – Forbidden: Access is denied”
• Event Viewer has the following:

 

Resolution:

Either:

1. Disable the Internet Explorer proxy server, if possible
2. Enable ‘Bypass proxy server for local addresses’
3. Create a proxy server exception

 

 

 

 

Citrix WEM – “Manage Printer” Application

We are currently using an on house written app that allows users to add/remove/set as printer their network printers.

Our users like this custom tool because its so simple to navigate around but going into our new XenApp 7.15 environment on Windows Server 2016 OS this tool doesn’t work.

In this new environment we are going to implement Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) and I noticed it comes with the ‘Manage Printers’ function as part of the WEM agent deployed to the XenApp Member servers, this tool is very good but its semi hidden away and takes a couple of clicks to find it where our users were used to having a desktop printer icon to get to the custom app.

I decided to see if the WEM ‘Manage Printers’ function can be made into a desktop icon, the details to turn this into an application are:

• Command Line: C:\Program Files (x86)\Norskale\Norskale Agent Host\PrnsMgmtUtil.exe
• Working Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Norskale\Norskale Agent Host
• Icon File: C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll
• Icon Index: 16
• Display Name: Printer Management
• Action Type: Create Application Shortcut

Dont forget to ‘assign’ the new application in Action Assignment.

NetScaler SDX – Unknown Device, not supported by Command Center

Environment:

• Citrix NetScaler SDX appliances
• Citrix Command Centre 5.x (and think it occurs in version 4.x also) on Windows Server 2008 R2

Issue:

While running a NetScaler SDX discovery in Command Centre the discovery fails with the following error message:

“Unknown device ; <sdx_ip_address> ; not supported by command center”

(The discovery of the NetScaler VPX instances discovered fine independently)

– Checked discovery logs and found the below error:

Troubleshooting Steps:

– Checked from the Command Centre server and was able to ping and SSH to SDX Management IP with same credentials used in the Command Centre NetScaler SDX profile.
– In the C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Citrix Command Center\logs\discoveryLogs.txt log file, I could see it was trying to add the NetScaler SDX as “CBSDX” (CloudBridge SDX I assume).

• INVENTORYERR: Device not recognized as CBSDX. SYSID null <sdx_ip_address>
• INVENTORYERR: Exception while login to =<sdx_ip_address>
• Localized : English : nsroot failed to login

Resolution:

Within Command Centre,

• On the Administration tab,
• Under Settings,
• Click SSL Settings and then
• Select the Enable TLSv1 option
• Restart the Command Centre service.

NOTE: After restarting the Command Centre service and its running again, it can take a while before your able to log in again.

Check the service status in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Citrix Command Center\logs\wrapper.log file

INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:00 | Starting up as Primary Server and correcting the Server information in the Database.
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:00 |
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:01 |
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:01 | Starting Citrix Command Center “Primary” Server Modules, please wait
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:15 |
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:15 |
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:15 |
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:15 | Process : SyslogServerBE [ Started ]
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:16 | Process : ProcessTest [ Started ]
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:17 | Process : ShutdownDatabaseServer [ Started ]
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/05/23 14:47:19 | Process : CLIRMIService [ Started ]

If you see a lot of [Failed] statues, restart the Command Centre server.

 

“Please wait for User Profile Services” – Logon delay

Environment

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Citrix XenApp 6.5 RU5

Issue

During users logon to XenApp published applications and published desktops there can be a lengthy delay on “Please wait for the User Profile Services”, it can hang on this for up to 30 secs.

Solution

In the Group Policy Management browse to:

• Computer Configuration
  • Administrative Templates
    • System
      • User Profiles

Modify the policy setting “Set maximum wait time for the network if a user has a roaming user profile or remote home directory” to “Enabled” and set the value Wait for network for maximum (seconds) to 0.

User session stuck on XenApp server

Environment

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Citrix XenApp 6.5

Issue

User’s session is stuck on XenApp server, logging off from AppCenter doesn’t remove them.

Resolution 

1.Log onto the RDS server and launch Remote Desktop Services Manager or connect via another server.

2.Get the Session ID of the hung session from the Session tab:

• Session: Disconnected
• User: <Blank>
• ID: <number>
• State: Disconnected
• ClientName: <Blank>
• LogOnTime: Unknown

3.Click on Processes tab

4.Click on ID column to sort the processes by ID

5.Find the hung ID number

6.There is normally 3 processes visible

• LogonUI.exe
• Winlogon.exe
• Csrss.exe

7.Right-click on winlogon.exe and End Process, once you end this process the other 2 will disappear.

8.DO NOT end process on csrss.exe, this will crash and reboot the RDS server

9.Now the user has cleared from the RDS server and from AppCenter.

Windows cannot connect to the printer – error 0x00000006

Environment:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Citrix XenApp 6.5 RU5

Issue:

Attempting to add a network printer the following error is displayed

• “Connect to Printer. Windows cannot connect to the printer. No printers were found”
• Operation failed with error 0x00000006

Resolution:

Microsoft’s resolution for this issue is to install KB2778831, however there are instance of this hotfix being applied and the issue still occurring.

Manual Fix:

1. Open Registry Editor
2. Browse to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers
3. Back up then delete the Client Side Rendering Print Providers key
4. Restart the Printer Spooler service
5. Printers should now add successfully

Exchange RPC Timeouts when using Citrix NetScaler

Updated 9 June 2016

Environment

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Exchange 2010

Citrix NetScaler 10.x/11.x

Issue

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• Users creating a new email and clicking on To: to browse the Global Address List would receive an Exchange timeout error message.
• Accepting meeting invites puts the appointment in the recpients calendar but not the organisers and no email gets sent to the organiser of the appectance. Takes clicking the Accept button multiple times before it processes the acceptance.

Resolutions

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Create a new TCP Profile

GUI:

• System
• Profiles
• Add
• Name: RPC_Profile
• MSS: 1460
• Keep-Alive Probes – Enable
• Connection idle time before sending probe (secs) – 30
• Keep-alive probe interval (secs) – 20
• Everything else defaults

Bind this profile to the RPC Load Balanced VIP

• Traffic Management
• Load Balancing
• Virtual Servers
• <Exchange RPC LB VIP Name>
• Profiles > Add
• TCP Profile – Select RPC_Profile
• Ok
• Done

CLI:

add ns tcpProfile RPC_Profile_RPC -mss 1460 -KA ENABLED -KAconnIdleTime 30 -KAprobeInterval 20

add lb vserver <Exchange RPC LB VIP Name> TCP <IP_Address> * -persistenceType SOURCEIP -timeout 150 -cltTimeout 180 -tcpProfileName RPC_Profile

 

Additional Timeout customization recommendations

• Add ‘Thresholds & Timeouts node to the RPC ServiceGroup
  • Configure ‘Client Idle Time-out’ setting to: 28800
• Disable AppFlow on the RPC VIP and ServiceGroup
• Ensure ‘Surge Protection’ is disabled on the RPC ServiceGroup

 

‘BadCursor’ error on XenApp desktop when using HP ThinPro OS

Environment

HP T510 running ThinPro 4.4

Citrix XenApp 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2

Issue

Users were using HP Thin Clients and the device itself would display the following error in front of their Citrix XenApp published desktop:

“The X Request 2.0 caused  error: “6 : BadCursor (invalid Cursor parameter)”

Cause

Users would scroll through documents using the mouse wheel.

Resolution

1. Run ‘fsunlock’

2. browse to: /usr/lib/ICAClient/config/usertemplate/All_Regions.in

3. Locate [Virtual Channels\ZeroLatency]

4. Modify ZLMouseMode=* to ZLMouseMode=0

5. Save the file

6. Run ‘fslock’

Slow Logon’s when using Folder Redirection

Environment Windows Server 2008 R2 Citrix XenApp 6.5 RU5

Issue Slow logon speeds into XenApp Published desktop/applications, hangs for a period of time on ‘Applying Folder Redirection Settings’

Resolution On the XenApp Servers, apply the following registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer FolderRedirectionWait (REG_DWORD) = 0

Further details – http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133595/