Create ICA files (The easy way)

At work we sometimes need to give users access to programs that are installed on a subset of the Citrix servers. We have always done this by creating an ICA file of the application.

The usual procedure was:

• Log onto Citrix Web Interface browse to the correct application
• Right click on the application icon
• Click 'Save Target'
• Save the ica file somewhere it can be found.
• Open the ica file in notepad
• Edit the line that say removeicafile=yes to removeicafile=no (so that the file isn't deleted after the first run).
• And finally run the application

In XenApp it is a bit easier.

The procedure is as follows:

• Open Access Management Console
• Drill down to the application, fro which, you want to create ICA file.
• Right click on the application icon
• Choose All Tasks -> Create ICA file.
• In the box that appears un tick the check box (if internal connection) and browse to a file location to save the file.

This file will be ready to deploy to the user.

Hope this helps someone.