- Best Practise, Citrix, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012R2, XenApp, XenDesktop
Explanation: A new security certificate was recently released to further enhance the security of Citrix Receiver. However, this certificate disables Receiver Auto-Update functionality. It is important that you download and install the recently released Receiver Auto Update Tool to restore Receiver Update functionality.
Mac Client Printer Mapping Fix for Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6
Hi all
If you have users that have a Apple Mac OSX device such as (iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro) then this article might be interesting for you. I am helping many clients around the world and I often see more companies adapting Apple OSX devices. Specially SMB and Enterprises are adapting Apple Macbook products these days cause they are powerfull computers and have some of the best design and reliability. Many companies have no other option to adapt Apple OSX devices, so they attract the right talented employee, which are requesting this device if they want to work at the company, and you think this is funny then welcome to reality, Apple is back and more powerful than before. The good news is that Citrix can help with this and bring any app to work on these devices and secure the workspace with the Citrix Receiver where the user connect to a central and secure solution. The challenge comes when the user have local printers to their mac device and now tell IT they want to print from their Citrix session.
In latest release of Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp 7.6 if your users on Mac OSX devices, wants to use local printers and then connect to their remote Citrix VDI (Windows 8/8.1) or XenApp (Server 2012/2012R2) and then print, this is not going to work. Before this article got released users would only be able to get local printing working to a Windows 7 VDI or a XenApp server running Server 2008R2.
If you have users running pure Windows Computers, then you are not going to run into this issue with getting local printers to work with a Citrix environment running Windows 7/8/8.1, Server 2008R2/2012/2012R2.
In Citrix XenDesktop 7.6, default policies are set to map all client printers, so you dont have configure this policy.
Summary if you have a Mac device and Citrix Receiver and local printers installed on your Mac, now you want to accomplish connecting to your VDI (Windows 8/8.1) XenApp (Windows Server 2012/2012R2) then you are going to fail, do below and you succeed.
Solution:
(how to get local printers to work on a Apple OSX computer with Citrix Receiver to a XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 environment running Windows 8/8.1 or Server 2012/2012R2)
- On the desktop you want to configure, open Control Panel > View Devices and Printers.
- Select any Printer, for example Microsoft XPS Document Writer.
- Click Print server properties, as displayed in the following screen shot:
- Select Drivers tab.
- Click Add >Next.
- Choose Processor Architecture, click Next.
- Select Windows Update.
- Select Manufacturer ‘HP’ and Printers ‘HP Color LaserJet 2800 Series PS’ (if there are two versions of this driver displayed, choose the Microsoft version)
- Click Next > Finish.
- Now connect or reconnect to your Citrix XenApp session running (Server 2012/2012R2) or Citrix XenDesktop VDI session running (Windows 8/8.1) then your local printers will be mapped in Citrix session and you can print.
Have fun.
/Poppelgaard
Citrix technology professional – CTP, and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional MVP, Thomas Poppelgaard provides professional services. Write to me on my email thomas@poppelgaard.com or call on my cell +45 53540356
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I am trying to open an application from my work's citrix presentation server on my macbook. I just downloaded the latest citrix client for mac from their website but when I go to launch an app it tries to open the app in VMware. If I right-click on the app and save target as, I get a launch.ica file which if I try to open in Citrix Dazzle it does not know how to open this file type.
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I was able to fix the same problem by changing the settings on the VMWare virtual machine, so that 'windows applications' (i.e. Citrix apps, or so the system thinks) are not automatically opened with VMWare Fusion. I already had the Citrix plug-in downloaded, but the problem wasn't solved until I changed the settings in VMWare Fusion.
You need the Citrix ICA Client (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9610/citrix-ica-client).
Once you have installed it and associated .ica files with this app you should have no problems, although I would recommend using FireFox to login to your works' presentation server as I've have had issues with Safari.
I have no idea what Citrix is, but generally speaking, you select your file, do a Get Info on it and choose the application you would like to have open it from the little menu in the window.
This is caused by a VMWare Helper Application
1) you need to unregister it from VMWare
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -v -u ~/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows.vmwarevm/Applications/Citrix Remote Application Runtime — Window.app/
2) Optionally delete the App to prevent it re-registering at the next login
3) Reinstall the Citrix Online Web Plugin
The is repaired quickly by reinstalling the 10.00.603 ICA client found in this location:http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9610/citrix-ica-client as well as possibly on the Citrix web site.
My problem started when trying to grab the 11.x client, and all hell broke loose. I simply reinstalled the 10.X client over the top of the fouled 11.x and all associations are fine and works as expected.
This is not the final answer for those who need to run the latest ICA client plus VMs on Fusion, but it will get you working again.
My configuration: Citrix Online Plug-in 11.2, VMware Fusion 3.1.2, OS X 10.6.6I tried to unregister/move the Citrix*.app from the VMware Fusion Applications folder, reinstalled Citrix plugin 11 again and again - no success. But it worked fine with doing the following:
- download ica file via 'save link as' function of the browser
- select ica file in finder and press cmd+i
- select Citrix Online Web Plug-in as open with
- press change all
- restart browser and try again
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Just changeing the association of one ica file seems not to work, because the VMware Application helper stuff, or the Citrix connnection start mechanism itself, tries to start another ica file. That's my assumption.
