Change default ICONs in XenAPP publishing

You can easily change ICONs for published apps in XenApp if you have JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG files. You can convert these image files into ICO files for uploading on published app.

Go to the website http://www.converticon.com/

Click on Browse and select image file

Click on Export and select 32x32 ICO format to save file

It will convert and saves it as ICO file.

Open published application properties and go to shorcut presentation and select Change Icon

In Icon Browser, select "Choose an Icon from a locally browsed file" and replace it with newly created ICO file.

Here is a good article : http://www.coretekservices.com/2012/10/18/how-to-create-nice-looking-icons-for-citrix-published-apps/

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Do not want display shortcuts on Start menu- Citrix Receiver

If you do not want to display shortcuts on start menu on Citrix workstation where the Reciver was installed,

Open Web Interface PNA agent website propeties of "Mange Shortcuts"

Select Never in "Display" property

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Error 1603 XenApp install failing

XenApp install fails with error 1603. And also you can see this error in Event viewer

Sol:

Note down the V: drive (In your case it might be different drive) mapping in Windows explorer.

1.       Reboot the server

2.       Open CMD prompt as “Run as administrator”

3.       Map the drive V: using “net use V:  \\Servername\share” in CMD prompt

4.       Rerun the install from Programs-àCitrixàXenApp server Role Manger -àAdd server Role

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Citrix Analysis & Audit Tools

There are few tools in google world. Recently I came across these two:

Citrix Scout:

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130147

Download it from above link. Unzip it and copy it to Data Collector server.

Run it on Data Collector server.

XenApp Audit Tool:

Install Citrix SDK (Power shell) on Data collector server if it is not installed already. The download path for Xenapp6.5 SDK is

http://community.citrix.com/display/xa/XenApp+6.5+Powershell+SDK

Download XenApp Audit tool from

http://paultechnologies.com/xenappaudit/

Unzip XenAppAudit in “Program Files” folder

Run start.bat as administrator

The results will be saved in “Results” folder.

Soem times, you will get errors if your XenApp installation directory is different. In that case modify the Launcher.vbs  to the correct location of the wfshell.exe. Wfshesll.exe is needed to find out the version of XenApp.   In the Launcher.vbs file, you can also modify the path as necessary for the SDK if the SDK installation path is different.

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