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 published application on a citrix server, and creates and ICA file. So for my purposes bascially it did the same thing create an ICA file, but this one actually tells you what the error actually is instead of throwing something generic at you. Low and behold once I found out what the error was, the fix was to remove all my Citrix clients off of my machine and download the latest version (the one with the agent and the web). Then the ICA file creator worked and so did the Citrix Quick Launch tool.

Citrix Quick Launch Tool: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122536

Citrix ICA file Creator: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX113472

Use the Quick Launch, it looks and works better at least in my opinion.