To do this you would include STARTMENUDIR=”\Citrix App” in your command line install. /startmenudir=Textstring – Shortcuts to subscribed applications by default appear under Start Menu -> All Programs however you can organise them under a sub-folder such as Start Menu -> All Programs -> Citrix Apps.Prelaunch works when a user logs on to Receiver and can reduce application launch times during high traffic periods Prelaunch is supported with StoreFront 2.0 and above. /EnableTracing= – The default value is false.The default value is %computername% which will use the client devices computer name as it is /client_name=ClientName – Where ClientName is used to identify the user device.
If you use this switch you must install RIInstaller.msi from the installation directory you specified and all other. The default location is C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver. /installdir – Specify which directory you want to install Citrix Receiver into.There are other options and switches available such as:
Furthermore you must configure Group Policy on the client device editing the Administrative Templates -> Classic Administrative Templates (ADM) -> Citrix Components -> Citrix Receiver -> User Authentication -> Local username and password object, enabling this object and selecting Enable pass-through authentication. Note that to enable pass-through authentication you must install Receiver on a Windows device with Local Administrator rights via command line with the /includeSSON switch or via the GUI by ticking the option to include SSON. If you use the ADDLOCAL= option to specify which features to install and you want to use SSON you must specify the SSON value. Note that you can tick to include/exclude install of the SSON component when running the graphical installation of Receiver.
The related option ENABLE_SSON is enabled when /includeSSON is on the command line.
exe so you can separately install components i.e. /extract (folder) – Extracts self-extracting package to an existing folder essentially extracting each MSI file from the./preview – Displays a preview of changes without altering the machine./noreboot – Prevents any machine reboots or reboot prompts during installation./silent – Silently installs Citrix Receiver with no graphical output shown to the end-user./uninstall – Removes any existing installation of Citrix Receiver from the machine if found./help – Displays help on using the command line to install Citrix Receiver including the switches involved.The switches are explained briefly below: Typing CitrixReceiver.exe ? or /help in to command prompt gives the following output: To install Receiver via Command Line, firstly change the command prompt directory to the location storing your CitrixReceiver.exe file.
The Receiver installer self-extracts to the user’s temp directory before install and roughly requires 80MB of free space in the %temp% directory. When you stop and start Receiver log files will be created within the sub-folders that are present under %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Citrix\SelfService\.With the current version of Citrix Receiver for Windows at the time of this writing being 4.5, I will talk about some of the command line advanced command line install options available which allow you to be more precise and customisable with your Citrix Receiver installs. REG_SZ DefaultTracingConfiguration = global all -detail.Self-Service Plugin LoggingĪdd the following values to HKLM\Software\Citrix\Dazzle\ (32-bit) or HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Citrix\Dazzle\ (64-bit): When you stop and start Receiver log files will be created within the sub-folders that are present under %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Citrix\AuthManager\. Authentication Manager LoggingĪdd the following values to HKLM\Software\Citrix\AuthManager (32-bit) or HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Citrix\AuthManager (64-bit): The trace-pnsson.log file shows information such as the credentials captured and packaged by SSON. When you log off and on again log files will be created relating to SSON in the path you specified. You can enable SSON logging which may help in identifying an issue with single sign-on.Īdd the following values to HKLM\Software\Citrix\Install\SSON (32-bit) or HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Citrix\Install\SSON (64-bit):
When you stop and start Receiver a Receiver_.log file will be created in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Citrix\Receiver\.