Ghost sessions on the Citrix studio. Hostname of the VDAs are blank in Citrix Studio.

Ghost sessions on the Citrix studio. Hostname of the VDAs are blank in Citrix Studio.

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Article ID: CTX245790

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Description

Blank hostname in Studio even when the session is connected.

Resolution

Execute this PowerShell commands on one of the Delivery Controller

Add-PSSnapin Citrix*
Update-BrokerNameCache -Machines

Problem Cause

Normally, the broker will eventually poll and locate the DNS name.    

We see the name missing / blank or a "-" for an active session in Studio, when the controller queries the AD about the DNS and SAM name for the SID, the machine didn't have that information in AD (or on the AD server that was queried).