Create ICA files with Citrix Quick Launch Tool

Creating ICA files is usually pretty easy, but not all the time. I had an instance where I couldn’t create an ICA file with the access management console. So I used the ICA file creator from citrix, however it kept throwing up errors, and generic errors at that. I was fed up trying to find a solution. Then I found this Citrix Quick Launch tool, which allows you to directly connect to a...

Apply Citrix Password Manager per application or per AD group only

Most people like me don’t see the benefits of running Citrix password manager on the whole farm. I want only have it run based on a published application, or based on a AD group. Citrix password manager it’s a love hate relationship for me. I hate it most of the time, except for like one application in our whole Citrix farm. I have like 50 out of 3000 users that could only benefit...

How to reset Citrix Password Manager for a user

What do you do when a user doesn’t remember the answers to the security questions that they registered with in citrix password manager? But their is another option just enter your previous password? Oh they don’t remember that either. Great! So what do you do. Just reset their registration of password manager. I dunno why, but I had the hardest time trying to find this option. So in...

Running commands on remote servers

We have many citrix servers, but whenever I need to run one simple command I hate to go to all my citrix servers to run on. I wish I could just connect to one server, and access the command line for all the other server. Well you can, as I soon learned with psexec. It’s a Microsoft tool (formerly sysinternals), and you can download it here.  Below is how you use it. psexec \\RemoteComputer...

Repairing file associations

Have two versions of the same software that open the same file extension? Having trouble getting windows to open the right one. We had this same problem with Crystal reports (.rpt extension), but setting it in the file types options in windows did not work. However the bottom command worked in our citrix farm. Don’t put this is a batch file because the %1 doesn’t flow...