Switch between published applications??

[andytheautomator]

How do I run two or more published applications at once and switch between them? Can I even do this with citrix?

Thanks

 

[CitrixEngineer]

If you can see the icons in Program Neighborhood, Start Menu, Web Interface or wherever you've pointed them to, you can launch as many published apps as you like in their own seamless windows. You can then simply Alt+Tab between them like any local application.


Hope this helps

 

[victorv]

hi,
andy, which is your client ? Probably if you make this question it is a Thin-Client. Right ?
bye

 

[balage0]

Hi Andy,

if you set the same screen resolution in the ICA file or in the Program neighborhood, then the applications will be opened on the same session, and you can switch between the apps as CtirixEnginer said.

Cheeers,
Balage

 

[andytheautomator]

Thanks for the posts. I am still a bit confused though. I am trying to make so that only two applications are available at the thin clients. For example outlook and excel. I don't want users to have windows, just the apps?

Thanks everybody

 

[pauljex]

Hi

What you need to do is going to the Citrix Managment Console, create a Published App, when creating the app, you can choose the "seemless" applcation option. This will allow the user to see Word / Excel / Outlook, - just the application nothing else. Any icons the users sees will be on the users desktop, not the server!!

Hope this is of help.

Paul

 

[andytheautomator]

I know what your saying, however, what I am trying to do is make it so that users don't even have a desktop. ie: they log in and have two programs, no start menu, no desktop, just the published apps. I don't even know if citrix can do this?

Thanks

 

[Erik160]

Andy,
This can be done and has been done. You have to set up your apps like listed above (pauljex). It will be accessed through a website. You can access the site by typing

http://localhost/,

and if you have IIS installed and installed Citrix MF correctly, it should prompt you for a username and password. Once you have logged it to the site, you can see the folders that you have created with the published app's icons. If you have more questions or need clarification, please email edarm@weststarmortgage.com.

Hope that was some help.

Erik

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Or you can change the shell in the registry from explorer.exe to pn.exe in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

That way users will only get Program Neighborhood - and the apps you want them to run.

Alternatively you could publish a locked down desktop, force the client machines to run only an ICA client, and have total control over the apps that the user sees in that desktop.

I think the most elegant solution however, is via the Web Interface, as suggested above. You can control this as well by setting the above registry key to use iexplore.exe as the shell. The Web interface is also more customisable and portable than PN.

Hope this helps