By Lal Mohan

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Deleting a Desktop catalog in XenDesktop 7 gives the error ” The Machine Catalog could not be loaded, unable to find Machine creation data for id”

Citrix says the easiest way to fix a broken catalog is to recreate it. But what if it doesn’t allow you to delete the catalog to recreate it as happened to me.

The below error occurred when I tried recreating the desktop catalog in XenDesktop 7. The error message was

 

The Catalog could not be loaded due to the following errors:

Unable to find machine creation data for id 

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The below is how to fix the error and get back to running state

Remove-BrokerCatalog -Name “Name of the Catalog“

 

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To get the name of the catalog, you can also run the below PowerShell command so as to avoid typing

Get-BrokerCatalog

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3 responses to “Deleting a Desktop catalog in XenDesktop 7 gives the error ” The Machine Catalog could not be loaded, unable to find Machine creation data for id””

  1. David Avatar
    David

    Still relevant in 2020, I had to use that command in 1912 with a broken catalog.

    Thank you!

    Reply
    1. Lal Mohan Avatar
      Lal Mohan

      All good mate! Glad it helped

      Reply
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