Friday, October 29, 2010

XenApp6: "Unknown error occurred: error code 0x8200003e"

I tried publishing new application on XenApp 6.0 on windows 2008 R2 and started giving error that configuration database is not available . I gave permission to citrix service under DeCOM for all the local DCOM user but still I was unable to make changes to XenApp Farm. I then found this Citrix forum discussion, but this did not work either.

Finally I found Citrix IMA service was set to start with local service account . I set to start with Network account. I re-run the Citrix configuration database and was finally able to create and publish application in XenApp farm.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

XenApp 6: “Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration” and “Set up Windows Internet Explorer 8 Wizard” for Windows Server 2008

When you publish IE on XenApp 6.0 on Windows 2008 R2 these two will bother you a lot . To disable these feature

  • Go to Start and click on “Server Manager”
  • Click on “Configure IE ESC” located on the right-hand section of the window.
  • The Internet Enhanced Security Settings page will be displayed. Disable necessary options. IE ESC is now disabled
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    Second setting which will bother you is

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    To disable this

    Go to a GPO then pick computer or user then Policies (in Vista / 2008 and Windows 7) -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer

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    The reason for publishing this article is to make you spend less time googling :)

    Thursday, October 21, 2010

    How to License NetScaler VPX 9.2

    Login to NetScaler VPX web console and select license under system . You will find default service which get enabled when the appliance is not licensed. image

    Now collect the hostname which will be required on the licensing portal .  This can be collect in various way. If this XenServer then you can find hostname under network and which is nothing but the mac address without “:”

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    Or ssh into netscaler vpx using putty and type shell then run “lmutil lmhostid –ether ” which will gives you same host name

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    Once you login to the secure portal of license site . Select the product as netscaler VPX and filter the product. Allocate the quantity and then type the hostname which you gather from above steps. Hit allocate

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    Confirm the allocation

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    Download the lic file

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    Now upload the lic file to the NS and then reboot the appliance to make the changes

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    Once the appliance is rebooted and came back the license will be updated for all the service which you have purchased.

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    Wednesday, October 20, 2010

    Provisioning Services setup error :Provider SQL Network Interfaces,error:26-Error Locating Server/Instance

    While running PVS service configuration wizard for PVS 5.6 , it throws the error message as shown below

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    We followed all the recommendation as per googling.

    We were supplying instance name  in the below box in every format as per googling.

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    Finally what we found that if you don’t supply instance name and then just hit next it will show up the instance which you were looking for

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