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It may happen that you are unable to update to  SP1 for XenServer 6.2 either using CLI or XenCenter. It appears as if the update is not applicable , even though you know it is. XenServer build number: 70446c XenServer Version: 6.2 From the image you can see that after choosing the update my server shows grayed out as if the update is not applicable. In our case the issue was ,we had not assigned any license server to the XenServer. Once we assigned the license it worked and we were able to upgrade successfully. Hope this Helps.

Recently i logged on to iDRAC for one of our Dell R720 servers,however somehow the console redirection did not work at all. I kept on seeing No Signal on the Virtual console Preview. I tried Rebooting the server but that did not help. Finally i clicked on Reset iDRAC and this did the trick. It may take around 2 -5 minutes before you can access iDRAC page again. I had to power on the server through iDRAC before anything showed up on console. Hope this Helps.

Sometimes we need to find which SQL server hosts the XenDesktop 7 database. Try this Powershell command on XenDesktop controller : Get-ConfigDBConnection This will tell you the following details: Server name hosting the DB,Database Name,Security Type Hope this helps

After Lync 2013 was installed, some users are no longer able to open the Outlook 2010 items that are listed in the Windows Search results. They may notice that the Outlook items that are listed in the Windows Search results are displayed with the new Outlook 2013 icon. Since we have Outlook 2010 on our machines the icons get changed to the Outlook 2013 as shown in the image. As indicated by Microsoft, it is a known issue and the only appropriate solution as of now is to repair the Office 2010 installation. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2823902 To repair office you may need to run the following :  setup.exe /repair ProPlus It will take some time for re pair and may need to a r eboot. It is recommend you close all Office programs before running the repair Hope this helps.

Sometime when  you upgrade Citrix  receiver or uninstall an older version and then install a new Citrix Receiver version , you may see an issue opening application /desktops (Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop) You may see errors as shown in the image: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library --------------------------- Runtime Error! Program: C:\PROGRA~2\Citrix\ICACLI~1\WFICA32.EXE It may happen that an older installation of Citrix Receiver did not get cleaned up properly. Try and check if this entry exist in registry and then delete it. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\UpgradeCodes\9B123F490B54521479D0EDD389BCACC1 Hope this helps.

Sometimes when you build a new storefront Group with 2 or more servers in it and have them load balanced using Netscaler . As soon as you try and access you XenDesktop site,you will get redirected to one of the load balanced storefront servers. It may happen that when you add NetScaler to the storeFront site for Remote access the changes might not have been propagated to the secondary StoreFront servers. You wont be able to access the resources and at this point you will see this event on the secondary Storefront. Event Id 1 Task Category : 2007 A request was sent to service 'ABCStoreFront' that was detected as passing through a gateway. However no gateways are configured for this service.  Request details: X-Citrix-Gateway: X-Citrix-Via: test.domain.com X-Citrix-Via-VIP: Remote Address: Your NetScaler MIP X-Forwarded-For: Some IP ,Your NetScaler MIP Resolution was simple : Propagate changes to all storefront servers. Hope this helps

Just noticed, we can now download Windows server 2012 R2 and Win 8.1 from MVLS site. The downloads are available now. Happy Downloading.