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Almost everybody has struggled with the now infamous Error 1030 (The connection to "ApplicationName" failed with status (1030)) when connecting with Citrix Receiver for Windows to XenDesktop through NetScaler and StoreFront. There even is an whole armada of articles available out there, totally dedicating their content to troubleshooting this quite generic network error indicating that the connection has failed. Just google it!

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The solution to this error? Well, it depends...

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Citrix XenDesktop 7.x - Black Screen when connecting to Published Desktop

When connecting to a Windows Server 2008 R2 Published Desktop (provisioned as a VM, not a physical machine) with XenDesktop 7.x you might receive a black and blank Desktop, no Desktop Icons are shown, and the Desktop stays that way:

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Whereas connecting with RDP works normally, as long as the users are members of the local group Direct Access Users.

There are no significant Warnings and/or Error messages in the corresponding server's Application and/or System Event Log. Everything seems to look and work as expected. In my case the error started showing up after moving the VM from one Hyper-V server to another Hyper-V server.

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After upgrading my existing and fully functional NetScaler v10.5 Build 57.7 to the latest v11.0 Build 55.23 and implementing Unified Gateway for XenMobile and XenDesktop, my users were unable to SAML authenticate with ShareFile, i.e.

  • by using their MDX wrapped ShareFile app on iOS devices and locking it into an endless authentication loop without any errors:

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  • by using their ShareFile Outlook Plugin in order to send Download and/or Upload links as they received an error stating Authentication Error - http/1.1 Service Unavailable while trying to utilize the Browser Login included with the ShareFile Outlook Plugin Configuration Wizard:

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  • by authenticating to our company's custom ShareFile SAML Login page via Browser:

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StoreFront v3.0 and new Unified Receiver Experience - First Impressions (Part 3)

I was mostly interested in the new customization options and how to switch from the previous Green Bubble UI (a.k.a. the Classic Receiver Experience) to the new Unified Receiver Experience. So I'd like to start a little blog series about my first steps with StoreFront v3.0, covering:

  1. Upgrading to StoreFront v3.0 and enabling the new Unified Receiver Experience
  2. Customizing the Receiver for Web Unified Experience
  3. Evaluating the Google Chrome Support

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When clicking Deploy Citrix Receiver in the Citrix StoreFront v3.0 MMC it crashed immediately and I received an error stating: MMC has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it:

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StoreFront v3.0 and new Unified Receiver Experience with Citrix Receiver for Windows v4.3 (Part 2)

I was mostly interested in the new customization options and how to switch from the previous Green Bubble UI (a.k.a. the Classic Receiver Experience) to the new Unified Receiver Experience. So I'd like to start a little blog series about my first steps with StoreFront v3.0, covering:

  1. Upgrading to StoreFront v3.0 and enabling the new Unified Receiver Experience
  2. Customizing the Receiver for Web Unified Experience
  3. Evaluating the Google Chrome Support

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StoreFront v3.0 and new Unified Receiver Experience with Citrix Receiver for Windows v4.3 (Part 1)

I was mostly interested in the new customization options and how to switch from the previous Green Bubble UI (a.k.a. the Classic Receiver Experience) to the new Unified Receiver Experience. So I'd like to start a little blog series about my first steps with StoreFront v3.0, covering:

  1. Upgrading to StoreFront v3.0 and enabling the new Unified Receiver Experience
  2. Customizing the Receiver for Web Unified Experience
  3. Evaluating the Google Chrome Support

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Upon upgrading Citrix Profile Management to v5.2.1 on one of my Workers and rebooting my users were unable to connect to that server. It came down to a Load Evaluator Index of 10000:

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After upgrading Citrix Director to v7.6.300 in order to implement the newly added Framehawk Support I ran into an error after launching Citrix Director: An internal error has occurred. For assistance, contract your administrator (including typo):

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When launching WorxMail from your iOS device and running the initial configuration you might receive the following error after having entered your credentials and clicking Sign On: Access to your company network is not currently available:

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