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Unable to get data from Citrix Director

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 2 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

When you try to get data you get the following error:
Cannot retrieve the data. Unexpected server error. View Director server event logs for further information (Refer Citrix KB article CTX130320).

If you dive deeper into the Event logs in Applications, you'll find this error as well:
An unexpected error occurred when accessing the data source 'Unknown error.' ('http://<servername>/Citrix/Monitor/OData/v3').

User: '<username>'
Console operation: 'Preview Custom report query response'

Additional information:
'Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0.'

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Citrix VDI VM shows as unregistered

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 2 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

If you build a bunch of VM's for use in a Citrix VDI and it's not being fully utilized or the VM's rotated it might cause the VM's that are never used to stop responding to AD and when they do come online the VM shows as Unregsitered in Citrix Studio.

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Enable MS SQL Server ports for Remote management

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 2 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

Recently had to install MS SQL on a Windows Server Core installation. No GUI to manage the firewall and I can't ever for the life of me remember the commands or ports used.

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KB5028997 Increase partition size

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 1 min
Published: 18 February 2025

It's widely known by now that KB5028997 is causing issues with the update failing. This is because this patch requires a larger WinRE partition and by default this is 500 MB. To get over this hurdle, you need to increase the size and luckily the server does not need a reboot or be shutdown to perform this. 

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Reset Windows Server admin password

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 3 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

It's been a while since I did this and I never documented it for myself. So here it is and for anyone else that comes across this.

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