Virtual Delivery Agent VDA 7. Carl Stalhood. Navigation Recently Updated. Hardware. If v. Sphere 6, dont use hardware version 1. NVIDIA GRID. VMware 2. From your Windows 10 desktop, hit Start, then Settings the gear in the bottom left of your task bar. From there, hit System Notifications Actions to change. Windows 7 Command Prompt Commands A Complete List of CMD Commands Available in Windows 7. The US Army has ordered all service members to immediately cease using drones manufactured by Chinese tech company DJI, hinting the companys products could be. When you trying to start the second RDP session to a computer with Windows 8, a message appears that another user is already signed in and his session can be closed. 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Memory reservations reduce or eliminate the virtual machine. The NIC should be VMXNET3. If this VDA will boot from Provisioning Services. Give the VDA extra RAM for caching. Do not enable Memory Hot Plug. For v. Sphere, the NIC must be VMXNET3. For v. Sphere, configure the CD ROM to boot from IDE instead of SATA. SATA comes with VM hardware version 1. SATA wont work with Pv. S. Install the latest version of drivers e. VMware Tools. If Windows 7 on v. Sphere, dont install the VMware SVGA driver. For more details, see CTX2. Intermittent Connection FailuresBlack Screen Issues When Connecting from Multi Monitor Client Machines to Windows 7 VDA with VDA 7. SphereESXi. If v. Sphere, disable NIC Hotplug. Users could use the systray icon to Eject the Ethernet Controller. Obviously this is bad. To disable this functionality, power off the virtual machine. Once powered off, right click the virtual machine and click Edit. Settings. On the VM Options tab, expand Advanced and then click Edit Configuration. Click Add. Row. On the left, enter devices. On the right, enter false. Then click OK a couple times to close the windows. The VM can then be powered on. Windows Preparation. If RDSH, disable IE Enhanced Security Config. Optionally, go to Action Center Windows 8. R2 or Security and Maintenance Windows 1. User Account Control and enable Smart. Screen. Run Windows Update. If Windows Firewall is enabled. Enable File Sharing so you can access the VDA remotely using SMBEnable COM Network Access and the three Remote Event Log rules so you can remotely manage the VDA. Add your Citrix Administrators group to the local Administrators group on the VDA. The Remote Desktop Services Prompt for Password policy prevents Single Sign on to the Virtual Delivery Agent. Check registry key HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTTerminal Services. If f. Prompt. For. Password 1 then you need to fix group policy. The following GPO setting will prevent Single Sign on from working. Computer Configuration Policies Administrative templates Windows Components Remotes Desktop Services Remote desktop Session Host Security Always prompt for password upon connection. Or install VDA hotfix 4 and set the registry value HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWARECitrixPortica. Auto. Logon DWORD 0x. For Windows 7 VDAs that will use Personal v. Disk, install Microsoft hotfix 2. A computer stops responding because of a deadlock situation in the Mountmgr. This hotfix solved a Personal v. Disk Image update issue detailed at Citrix Discussions. If this VDA is Windows Server 2. R2, request and install the Windows hotfixes recommended by Citrix CTX1. Scroll down to see the list of recommended Microsoft hotfixes for Windows Server 2. R2. Ignore the Xen. App 6. x portions of the article. Also see http www. To remove the built in apps in Windows 1. Robin Hobo How to remove built in apps in Windows 1. Enterprise. For Remote Assistance in Citrix Director, configure the GPO setting Computer ConfigurationPoliciesAdministrative TemplatesSystemRemote AssistanceOffer Remote Assistance. See Jason Samuel How to setup Citrix Director Shadowing with Remote Assistance using Group Policy for more details. Install Virtual Delivery Agent 7. VDA 7. 6. 3. 00 is newer than whats on the base Xen. AppXen. Desktop 7. ISO. If you install 7. For virtual desktops, make sure you are logged into the console. The VDA wont install if you are connected using RDP. For Windows 1. 0, youll need Citrix Profile Management 5. Make sure 8. 3 file name generation is not disabled. If so, see CTX1. 31. User Cannot Launch Application in Seamless Mode to fix the App. InitDLLs registry keys. Make sure. NET Framework 4. Go to the downloaded Virtual Delivery Agent 7. Xen. Desktop Platinum, Xen. Desktop Enterprise, Xen. App Platinum, or Xen. App Enterprise and run VDAServer. Setup7. 6. 3. 00. VDAWorkstation. Setup7. VDA you are building. If UAC is enabled then you must right click the installer and click Run as administrator. In the Environment page, select Create a Master Image and click Next. For virtual desktops, in the HDX 3. D Pro page, click Next. In the Core Components page, if you dont need Citrix Receiver installed on your VDA then uncheck the box. Sha Hash Cracker. Click Next. In the Delivery Controller page, select Do it manually. Enter the FQDN of each Controller. Click Test connection. And then make sure you click Add. Click Next when done. In the Features page, click Next. If this is a virtual desktop, you can leave Personal v. Disk unchecked now and enable it later. In the Firewall page, click Next. In the Summary page, click Install. For RDSH, click Close when you are prompted to restart. After the machine reboots twice, login and installation will continue. After installation, click Finish to restart the machine again. If 8. 3 file name generation is disabled, see CTX1. User Cannot Launch Application in Seamless Mode to fix the App. InitDLLs registry keys. Virtual Delivery Agent 7. Hotfixes. Download Virtual Delivery Agent 7. There are Desktop. VDACore hotfixes and Server. VDACore hotfixes, depending on which type of VDA you are building. Install each hotfix by double clicking the. In the Welcome to the Citrix HDX TSWS Setup Wizard page, click Next. In the Ready to update page, click Update. In the Completed the Citrix HDX TSWS Setup Wizard page, click Finish. When prompted to restart, if you have multiple hotfixes to install, click Cancel. Continue installing hotfixes. Restart when done. Broker Agent 7. 6. Hotfix 1. Go to the downloaded Broker Agent 7. Hotfix 1 and run Broker. Agent. WX6. 4763. Install the hotfix. Reboot when prompted. The file C Program FilesCitrixVirtual Desktop AgentBroker. Agent. exe is updated to version 7. Controller Registration Port. Some environments will not accept the default port 8. Virtual Delivery Agent registration. To change the port, do the following on the Virtual Delivery Agent Open Programs and Features. Find Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent and click Change. Click Customize Virtual Delivery Agent Settings. Edit the Delivery Controllers and click Next. On the Configure Delivery Controller page, change the port number and click Next. In the Summary page, click Reconfigure. In the Finish Reconfiguration page, click Finish. The machine automatically restarts. You must also change the VDA registration port on the Controllers by running Broker. Service. exe VDAPort. Controller Registration Verify. If you restart the Virtual Delivery Agent machine or restart the Citrix Desktop ServiceIn Windows Logs Application, you should see an event 1. Citrix Desktop Service saying that it successfully registered with a controller. If you dont see this then youll need to fix the List. Of. DDCs registry key. You can also run Citrixs Health Assistant on the VDA. If you are installing VDA 7. Citrix Profile Management 5. Virtual Delivery Agent Hotfixes. These hotfixes are already included in VDA 7. Only install these on a base VDA 7. How to remotely see what users are logged into Windows 7 or Vista. You can use the commands listed here to manage Terminal Server connections. These all require remote procedure call, which is part and parcel with CIFSSMB the IPC share. Check that the RPC service is enabled first. Second, you cantshouldnt depending on network configuration run these services over anything but the local network. If youre trying to do this sort of management over the Internet, you should be using a VPN or some creative SSH tunneling.