Microsoft OneDrive: There was a problem - 0x8004de46

Microsoft OneDrive: There was a problem - 0x8004de46 Problem We ran into the "Please try again in a few minutes. (Error code: 0x8004de46) error recently when testing the OneDrive client connecting to multi-geo regions. The client was looking to connect with non-default urls since the users "Preferred Data Location" or PDL was not our default region.  See error below from the OneDrive sync client.  Microsoft has a kb on this but for...

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Slow and Choppy Day: Using Citrix Director and HDX Insight

When you’ve been supporting remote users, you hear it all.   Someone called the help desk or worse you. “Not sure what it is but my vm is slow today?” “My mouse just keeps wigging out?” “Everyday from 3pm to 5pm it gets boggy?” “I’m at my grandmother’s house today and nothing works.” (Yup…True story) They are tons of great 3rd party monitoring tools out there and many would help you troubleshoot the issue.   We all...

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Where can I download VMware Tools (vmtools.exe)?

I'm in the mists of updating my Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 Win 7 image and wanted to include the latest VM tools.  They are hard to find on the VMware download site but came across this site.... https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html   Pick your the ESX version and operating system and manually download aw...

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Citrix Desktop Studio: Found invalid data while decoding

We just added another Citrix Desktop Deleivery Controller (DDC) 5.6 FP1 to our farm.   But when launching Desktop Studio on the new server and viewing HDX policy was blank and a refresh threw the following error: The "Found invalid data while decoding" tipped me off that it couldn't read or render the polices from the database.  Low and behold we didn't have the same or latest Citrix Group Policy Management installed...

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Using Infoblox TFTP for Citrix PVS

People always say that "tftp is anything but trivial" and if you've implemented it, you know how true this is.  We have multiple Citrix XenDesktop and Provisioning Server farms were looking for a simple highly avaialble solution to provide TFTP to a dozen or more vlans.  Each PVS farm services 5+ or more vlans and used the solution outlined here to stream to multiple networks from one PVS server.  But how do you provide the...

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Citrix PVS to multiple vlans

Citrix provides basic guidance on how to multi-home your Provisioning Servers (PVS) with CTX120955.  But what if you have multiple vlans for desktops in which you want to stream to?  Well this is how we did it. Environment Citrix XenDesktop 5.6.1  Citrix Provisioning Server 6.1 VMware ESX 4.1 U1 Cisco Nexus 7000 Network/Firewall A few things to point out. - All vlans were separated by the firewall. - Used one PVS farm for all desktop vlans. - All firewall rules were setup to all outbound access to the DDC. Citrix Provisioning...

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PVS: An unexpected MAPI error occurred

A lovely error Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS)  "An unexpected MAPI error occurred" error. Fortunately, Jeff found the fix and shared it here.  This is a bug in PVS 5.6. Solution: In short, when you edit the properties of the PVS vDisk, set the disk status to Standard and select “MAK” on the Licensing TAB and press OK. Now you will not receive the error. Then set it back to KMS and click ...

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