Articles In Support

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in Support

While finishing the installation of the XenDesktop controller while building a XenDesktop 7.12 environment, I ran into the message “This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.” From there, I could not continue the installation. Researching this issue, I came across a Citrix article applicable to Provisioning Services, CTX1388823 - Provisioning Services Database Unable to Configure, with the same error message. The article refers to Provisioni... read more.

• April 13, 2017

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in Support

As part of a high availability implementation for a customer project, I needed to duplicate vDisks from one datacenter to another. This customer had vSphere configured where a cluster represented a datacenter. For testing purposes, I first copied a vDisk and the virtual machine template to the second datacenter. After configuring PVS with the new vDisk, in the new cluster, I launched the PVS wizard to create a new virtual machine using the copied template. However, on boot up, the servers blue screened with... read more.

• April 13, 2017

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in Support

During a project building a XenDesktop 7.x environment, the customer requested that I use SQL replication between three servers instead of the SQL Always On feature for high availability. For this particular project, the Citrix environment was not a critical component of the business and the customer only had SQL 2016 Standard licenses. In order to use the database of one of the replicated servers during a failure of the main server, a DNS name would be used when creating the Citrix databases. During this... read more.

• April 13, 2017