Search for the message in Mimecast 

Then Copy the Header to Clipboard and Search for “Fail”

You can see any DNS checks it might have failed e.g. : 

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.

Set Explorer to My Computer not Quick Access

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

LaunchTo DWORD

1 = This PC 2 = Quick access

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Trying to add a secondary Storefront server came up with an error during propagation of settings : 

Failed to get the end status of the sever configuration update.
System.ServiceModel.FaultException, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
Access to the path ‘C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Receiver Clients\Windows\CitrixReceiver.exe’ is denied.
at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.WCF.ConfigurationReplication.EndUpdateConfiguration(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

Looks like the same issue as https://pariswells.com/blog/research/import-stfconfiguration-an-error-occurred-configuring-storefront-diagnostics-method-invocation-failed-because

Deleting : C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Receiver Clients\Windows and \Mac Fixed this issue

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If your windows 10 machines get their updates from WSUS then you might get Error 0x800F081F while installing .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 10. This is probably due to Windows 10 not being able to search your Windows Updates location for the Feature.

Approve these updates

Synchronise Server and try again

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Trying to import a Citrix Storefront Config produces the following Error

Import-STFConfiguration : An error occurred configuring StoreFront diagnostics. Method invocation failed because
[System.Collections.Hashtable+ValueCollection] does not contain a method named ‘Contains’.
At line:1 char:1
+ Import-STFConfiguration -configurationZip “c:\Temp\backup.zip” -HostB …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Import-STFConfiguration], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException,Citrix.StoreFront.ImportConfigura
tion

You need to wipe your Storefront Config using the below Commands

PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Scripts> . .\ImportModules.ps1
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Scripts> Clear-DSConfiguration

Then retry import

I got then next error

Import-STFConfiguration : An error occurred configuring StoreFront diagnostics. The running command stopped because
the preference variable “ErrorActionPreference” or common parameter is set to Stop: Cannot remove item C:\Program
Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Receiver Clients\Mac\CitrixReceiver.dmg: You do not have sufficient access rights to
perform this operation.
At line:1 char:1
+ Import-STFConfiguration -configurationZip “c:\Temp\backup.zip” -HostB …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Import-STFConfiguration], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Management.Automation.ActionPreferenceStopException,Citrix.StoreFront.ImportConfi
guration

Deleting 

C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Receiver Clients\Mac

and 

C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Receiver Clients\Windows

fixed this

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Recently trying to install VDA on a server 2016 server and it comes up with the below error trying to install Remote Desktop Session Host

Error Id: XDMI:334CF235

Exception:
Citrix.MetaInstaller.MetaInstallerException ‘dism’ component failed to install with error 0x800f080c.
at Citrix.MetaInstaller.Prerequisite.RdsComponents.Install(InstallationContext context)

at Citrix.MetaInstaller.InstallationManager.InstallComponent(InstallableComponent component, InstallationContext installContext)

Looking in the logs it’s failing when running this :

dism /quiet /norestart /english /online /enable-feature /featurename:Remote-Desktop-Services /featurename:ServerMediaFoundation /featurename:AppServer /featurename:InkAndHandwritingServices /featurename:DesktopExperience

When I run this manually I get  : 

Feature name DesktopExperience is unknown. 
Feature name InkAndHandwritingServices is unknown.

This is actually already bundled in 2016 , you will need to install VDA 7.11 ( the minimum version that supports Server 2016 ) 

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The services could not connect to the database.

Possible reasons for the message:

The database server may not be allowing remote connections, make sure the database server is setup correctly and that the firewall in not blocking the connections.

The KB here did not help me : https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX233581

Solution:

Set the service : SQL Server Browser to Automatic and Start

Make sure TCP/IP is enabled and a TCP port is set ( If this is not the database service will need to be restarted ) 

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This is because you cannot make changes in Live

If you look top right you can see the current status

Click File and Select Mode

Choose Offline Mode

Make the changes you need then click and save

Change back to Online Mode

Push Save and Make live

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Upon restoring a domain controller to a new or isolated network in example a DR environment, the domain controller will lose access to its other domain controllers for replication. You might find you cannot start the DNS server and or Active directory services.

To force the server to start without checking for others modify the below key and reboot the server

 Add the Following reg Key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters
Value name:  Repl Perform Initial Synchronizations
Value type:  REG_DWORD
Value data: 0

You should then go into Active Directory Sites and services and remove the old Domain Controllers and Also go into the DNS server and remove any references in the Nameserver tabs for the Zones

_msdcs.domain.local

domain.local

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Recently a user’s office documents were not defaulting to print A4 even though the defaults for the printer were set to A4.

Printing from other programs such as adobe reader and notepad printed fine

In the end opening word and going to Layout , then Page setup and setting the below to “Set as Default” resolved the issue

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