Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed since Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR CU7:

Citrix Director

  • Once a session is established, the display name of the machine in the Machine Details page on Citrix Director reverts to the Delivery Group name. [CVADHELP-18746]

Citrix Policy

  • The CseEngine.exe service might consume higher memory than expected on the VDAs. [CVADHELP-19226]

  • The virtual channel policy value VirtualChannelWhiteList in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Citrix\VCPolicies setting might become corrupt and fail to apply on the VDA after restart. This issue occurs when you delete files from the C:\ProgramData\Citrix\GroupPolicy folder or cut the contents in the folder and paste them in a different location. [CVADHELP-21420]

  • Group Policy Modeling value shows the disabled value instead of the actual value. For example, the Display memory unit value is displayed as disabled instead of the actual value, 65536 KB. [CVADHELP-22484]

  • Attempts to apply Citrix user policies on different domains might fail when you upgrade a VDA to version LTSR CU7. [CVADHELP-22992]

Citrix Provisioning

Citrix Provisioning 1912 CU8 documentation provides specific information about the updates in this release.

Citrix Studio

  • When you attempt to add machines to a delivery group, the machine allocation page might disappear. As a result, users are not assigned in the Machine Allocation page and the machines are set to Unassigned. [CVADHELP-20000]

  • When you add an App-V application, the Delivered As field might be blank. This issue occurs when you add the application and change the name of the application from its default. [CVADHELP-21138]

Delivery Controller

  • If Site aggregation or delivery groups with specific broker policies are enabled, starting an application or a desktop creates a new session instead of reconnecting to an existing one. [CVADHELP-19879]

  • When the reserved memory is lesser than the configured memory, attempts to power on a virtual machine might fail with this error message:

    Invalid memory setting: Memory reservation (sched.mem.min) should be equal to memsize (94208). The virtual machine failed to start. Failed to turn on the MemSched module. Error parsing scheduler-specific configuration parameters.

    [CVADHELP-21052]

  • Attempts to create a new hosting connection on the XenServer pool master might fail with this error message:

    The host server cannot be contacted. check that the connection has a valid host address and that the host server is powered on and working properly.

    Failed to obtain XenServer host list.

    [CVADHELP-21320]

  • Citrix Broker Service (Brokerservice.exe) might exit unexpectedly after disconnecting from the License Server. [CVADHELP-21615]

  • There might be a mismatch in the number of sessions displayed on Citrix Studio and Citrix Director. Citrix Studio shows fewer active sessions than Citrix Director. [CVADHELP-21727]

  • Certain Citrix XML performance counters might not be added to the performance monitor graph. [CVADHELP-21785]

  • Attempts to import Local Host Cache (LHC) might fail with an Event ID, 505. The issue occurs if you have added the registry value, XmlStaTicketLifetimeInSeconds to the Set-BrokerServiceConfigurationData command. [CVADHELP-22967]

  • With this fix, Machine Creation Services supports vSAN 8. [CVADHELP-23415]

Linux Virtual Delivery Agent

Linux Virtual Delivery Agent 1912 CU8 documentation provides specific information about the updates in this release.

Metainstaller

  • When you install VDA for multi-session OS with the Enable connections to a server machine option enabled and upgrade the VDA, Additional Components for Master MCS Image text is displayed in the upgrade wizard instead of Additional Components for Enable Brokered Connections to a Server.

    Note:

    This fix is applicable from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR CU8 and upgrades from 1912 LTSR CUs to 1912 LTSR CU8 and above. However, the fix is not applicable for XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR CUs and Upgrades from XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR CUs.

    [CVADHELP-21557]

Microsoft Teams Optimization

  • Citrix HDX HTML5 Video Redirection Service (WebSocketService.exe) might exit unexpectedly while using Microsoft Teams. [CVADHELP-22561]

Profile Management

Profile Management 1912 CU8 documentation provides specific information about the updates in this release.

Session Recording

Session Recording 1912 CU8 documentation contains no fixed issues.

StoreFront

StoreFront 1912 CU8 documentation provides specific information about the updates in this release.

VDA for single-session OS

Installing, Uninstalling, Upgrading

  • After you upgrade a VDA to 1912 LTSR CUx or 2203 LTSR CUx, the value of ApplicationLaunchWaitTimeoutMS under the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI might not be restored. [CVADHELP-22758]

Keyboard

  • On VDA version 1912 CU5 running on Microsoft Windows 10 version 21H1 or 21H2, the keyboard might not be synchronized with the endpoint correctly in the HDX session. [CVADHELP-21534]

Session/Connection

  • Attempts to enable SSL on VDAs might fail when the certificate template is created with Key Storage Provider as the Cryptography provider. [CVADHELP-21485]

  • Internal websites of certain third-party applications with VDA installed might not allow access without a prompt. [CVADHELP-22081]

  • With the Enlightened Data Transport (EDT) protocol enabled, Citrix sessions might freeze when you update the VDA from version 1912 LTSR CU6 to version 1912 LTSR CU7. [CVADHELP-23370]

  • If the Session Recording agent is not installed on the VDA and you run Get-BrokerSessionRecordingStatus, Start-BrokerSessionRecording, and Stop-BrokerSessionRecording PowerShell commands, then the VDA deregisters and registers again with the Delivery Controller within a few seconds. This action has no impact on the existing sessions. If the Session Recording agent is installed on the VDA, the PowerShell commands work without issue. [CVADHELP-23491]

Smart Cards

  • When you start a session using a smart card and try to unlock a locked session, you might receive a prompt to enter a password instead of a smart card PIN. This issue occurs when you have installed the Microsoft patch, KB5018410. [CVADHELP-21665]

System Exceptions

  • VDAs might encounter a bug check code, 000000CA if a USB device is inserted and removed quickly. [CVADHELP-21459]

  • During session launch, VDAs might experience a fatal exception on ControlUP Custom Virtual Channel Initialization and display a blue screen. [CVADHELP-21885]

  • The HTML5 Video Redirection Service (CtxHdxWebSocketService) might exit unexpectedly. [CVADHELP-22012]

  • The Citrix PDF Universal Printer driver might exit unexpectedly because of the faulting acfpdfuamd64.dll module. [CVADHELP-22085]

  • VDAs might experience a fatal exception on Wdica.sys and display a blue screen. [CVADHELP-22482]

  • The graphics status indicator process, GfxStatusIndicator.exe might exit repeatedly. [CVADHELP-23142]

VDA for multi-session OS

Keyboard

  • When you open 2 instances of an application and set the DisableToggler setting to five seconds, you might have to wait for about 30 seconds before typing in the second application. [CVADHELP-22491]

Session/Connection

  • The recording status in the Session Recording Player might not change from Live to Complete after recording complete and even after logging off. The issue occurs on Microsoft Windows 10 or a published application. [CVADHELP-17556]

  • Attempts to enable SSL on VDAs might fail when the certificate template is created with Key Storage Provider as the Cryptography provider. [CVADHELP-21485]

  • Attempts to open PDF files using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC in Citrix Servers might fail with this error message:

    Werfault.exe - Application Error

    The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click Ok to close the application.

    [CVADHELP-21779]

  • Session Recording might continue to record even after you log off from the session or if the session is disconnected. [CVADHELP-22097]

  • The user session might refresh continuously when you start a Linux session running Ubuntu through Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI (WSLg). [CVADHELP-22198]

  • When you open 2 instances of an application and set the DisableToggler setting to five seconds, you might have to wait for about 30 seconds before typing in the second application. [CVADHELP-22679]

  • After you upgrade a VDA from 1912 LTSR CU5 to CU6 or CU7, the LogoffCheckerStartupDelayInSeconds and SeamlessFlags values under the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI might not be restored. [CVADHELP-22783]

  • When you reconnect to a session after changing the client’s DPI value, the new value might not be applied to the session. [CVADHELP-23007]

  • With the Enlightened Data Transport (EDT) protocol enabled, Citrix sessions might freeze when you update a VDA from version 1912 LTSR CU6 to version 1912 LTSR CU7. [CVADHELP-23370]

Smart Cards

  • When you start a session using a smart card and try to unlock a locked session, you might receive a prompt to enter a password instead of a smart card PIN. This issue occurs when you have installed the Microsoft patch, KB5018410. [CVADHELP-21665]

System Exceptions

  • The Terminal Services process might exit unexpectedly because of the faulting module, RPM.dll. [CVADHELP-21108]

  • The Service Host (svchost.exe) process might consume higher memory than expected on a VDA for multi-session OS when the UiPath Remote Runtime component is installed. [CVADHELP-21678]

  • During session launch, VDAs might experience a fatal exception on ControlUP Custom Virtual Channel Initialization and display a blue screen. [CVADHELP-21885]

  • The HTML5 Video Redirection Service (CtxHdxWebSocketService) might exit unexpectedly. [CVADHELP-22012]

  • The Citrix PDF Universal Printer driver might exit unexpectedly because of the faulting acfpdfuamd64.dll module. [CVADHELP-22085]

  • When you upgrade a VDA from 1912 LTSR CU5 to CU6, a fatal exception occurs on Wdica.sys, and a blue screen with a bug check code, 0x000000CE is displayed. [CVADHELP-22365]

  • VDAs might experience a fatal exception on Wdica.sys and display a blue screen. [CVADHELP-22482]

Fixed issues