ALM Explorer/IE was not able to access ALM 11.52 via Citrix

  • KM00958931
  • 27-May-2014
  • 27-May-2014

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Summary

Customer is using ALM 11.52 in Citrix 6.5 environment. He got error message "Share deployment folder is not synchronized with the server. Installation aborted. Contact your system administrator. For details, see the Loader log file." when using both ALM Explorer and IE.

Error

Customer is using ALM 11.52 in Citrix 6.5 environment.

He got error message "Share deployment folder is not synchronized with the server. Installation aborted. Contact your system administrator. For details, see the Loader log file." when using both ALM Explorer and IE.

Actions taken:
1. Login the Citrix machine using account with Administrator account because the other accounts can only access ALM Explorer. The other accounts (without admin privileges) cannot interact with anything except the ALM explorer.
2. Uninstall ALM Client component as below KM: http://support.microfocus.com/kb/kmdoc.php?id=KM176290 (using Administrator account)
3. Delete registries (using administrator account):
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\Certificates /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate /v LastSyncTime /f
4. After performing the above steps, ALM Client now can be installed and run in ALM Explorer using administrator account (before that, even administrator account couldn’t be used). The problem is only user with administrator privileges can do so. Customer does not accept this, he wants users without administrator can login using ALM Explorer as well because he can do that with QC 9.2
5. Checked Deployments.ini file at "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\HP\ALM-Client" and found that SharedDeployment is already set to Y. I have already added RunFromSharedFolder with Y value.
6. Added registry key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing", "State", "146432", "REG_DWORD"

Cause

Checked the user profile where ALM loads the client components and it was downloading the client components to user profile and not in ProgramData

Fix

  1. Uninstalled ALM client components. http://support.microfocus.com/kb/kmdoc.php?id=KM1400062
  2. Apart from the registry key mentioned in the KB, look for HKCU -> Software -> Mercury Interactive and remove it
  3. Installed Client MSI Generator and generated MSI file
  4. Installed MSI file
  5. Accessed ALM again with Admin rights and it worked fine.