- Category: Storefront
Create an ICA File from Storefront using PowerShell or JavaScript
Good ol' ICA File
Update 7-26-16: I created an additional PowerShell script that can utilize explict authentication vs anonymous only. Available on Github.
Stand alone ICA files used to allow organizations a multitude of access options, such as single click web shortcuts, login scripts or simple desktop shortcuts for XenApp access as recent as 6.5. When XenApp moved to the FMA architecture the good ol' days of the stand alone ICA files were gone Administrators can attempt to come close to the same behavior by utilizing Receiver SSO with shortcut publishing or web shortcuts created from Storefront. While the ease of access is still "kind of" there, it's not nearly as easy and convenient as running a simple ICA file. This situation adds complexity for both administrators and users by additional configuration challenges for administrators and additional steps for users to access the published resource. To complicate things even further for administrators, add in some Windows XP clients with an older version of Internet Explorer 8(see notification below when launching Storefont web shortcut) or stand alone Citrix Receiver Web client without SSO or pnagent functionality and it's a difficult scenario to solve. This post covers scripts I created for both JavaScript and PowerShell that can generate ICA files to be launched a variety of different ways.
TL;DR: Click here to go to GitHub to download.
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