You may be unable to add machines to catalog, receiving error "Failed to create a computer account *******, due to an unknown error." after 9 machines are added
Error details:
etting error. Transaction ID: <******-****-****-****-************> Action Name: MC_AddMachineInitialzation An error occurred. Contact Citrix Technical Support, and provide the transaction ID above. Exception: tstdgwindows0010 : [tstdgwindows0010 , Failed to create a computer account tstdgwindows0010 , due to an unknown error. Error Details AccountFailure : tstdgwindows0010 ] tstdgwindows0011 : [tstdgwindows0011 , Failed to create a computer account tstdgwindows0011 , due to an unknown error. Error Details AccountFailure : tstdgwindows0011 ]
The MCS naming scheme was set to tstdgwindows00# ( 15 characters) which allows computer names to created from tstdgwindows001 to tstdgwindows009 and MCS provisioning was attempting to add machine account beyond 15 characters - tstdgwindows001x or tstdgwindows001x
You may see following event in CDF trace:
xxxxxxxxx,x,YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss.XXXXX,TID,PID,X,ADIdentitySnapIn,,,,1,Information,"Creating account - name: tstdgwindows0011 SID: failed with error ComputerNameIsTooLong",
xxxxxxxxx,x,YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:s.*****,TID,PID,X,ADIdentitySnapIn,,,,1,Information,"Setting the start count to the next value: 10",