Here’s a wee little bug I’ve no idea how i created, but managed to clear it out anyway.

After creating an AppDisk, it got a little stuck. I tried deleting the task and AppDisk but the disk just seemed to be stuck in the “creating” phase indefinately.

To remove it, I had to do the following in Powershell from a delivery controller:

ASNP Citrix*
get-applibtask -active $true

Once i had identified the TaskID, i ran:

Stop-AppLibTask -TaskId 5be48afc-263b-454e-b3e9-5a2db6b966ff
remove-AppLibTask -TaskId 5be48afc-263b-454e-b3e9-5a2db6b966ff

Now just one last thing to do!

get-applibappdisk and find the entry in the “creating” state:Now finish with a:

remove-AppLibAppDisk -AppDiskUid d54681d3-6d0a-4259-b3ee-b90a899033bd

using the DiskUid that you saw in the previous get-applibappdisk command.

Thats it!

Update:

if you find that the machine you usually use to capture app disks is no longer available. use the following command to release it:

set-BrokerMachine -IsReserved $false -MachineName <MachineName>

PS: I could have piped a lot of that, sure! but my mac pipe symbol is currently out of action so i did it the hard way. if you are the type who reads others blogs and leaves comments to improve the scripting, I’m sure there are new people on the Microsoft forums you could be bawking at right now.