Author: Lal Mohan
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Unable to remove Machine accounts via Citrix Studio – error “accounts could not be deleted from the identity Pool. Note that this result can occur if you do not have the required Active Directory permissions”
When working with broken Citrix catalogs, you might have come across an issue where you are unable to remove/manage machine accounts even though you are a Domain Admin. I first encountered the problem when I tried adding a new VM to an existing catalog which eventually failed. However, the machine accounts were created in Active…
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Remove Existing Storage under Hosting node in Citrix Studio – PowerShell way
On the Desktop Studio, there is a menu for adding additional storage but no option for removing the storage once it is configured. However, there is a PowerShell cmdlet Remove-HypHostingUnitStorage that can be used for removing the existing Storage The below is how my datastore connections look like and I am going to demo removing…
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Creating a new XenDesktop 7 Catalogs gives the error ” The naming scheme is already in use”
This issue occurs if the same naming scheme has been used already -successfully or unsuccessfully. I say unsuccessfully because there may be cases when the catalog creation didn’t complete fully and error-ed making the naming scheme corrupted or invalid. In such cases, there are a few steps that you need to take to ensure that…
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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…
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