Question : Starting an application with XenApp 5.0 without the user selecting it.

Hello everyone.
I am evaluating the Citrix XenApp 5.0 application.
My goal is to "do" everything that we currently "do" with Terminal Server.
I have XenApp installed on a Windows 2008 server and am useing the Web interface.
So far everything works great.

I found documents on the Accidental Citrix Admin site very VERY helpful.

This such a neat product.


Here's what I need to do next and can't figure out how.

With Terminal Server, I know how to start an application as soon as the users logs on.
And when the user ends the application, the users session automatically ends.

I want to do the same thing with XenApp.

I have learned to publish an application and then have it appear on a selection panel after the user has successfully logged on to the Citrix server.
And I have learned that when the user ends this application, his/her Citrix server connection ends.
This is GREAT !
Im almost there.

The last ting I need to do is to figure out a way to NOT have selection panel appear after the user has successfully logged on.

I would like to have the User log on, then have the application start automatically without having to make any kind of selection.
And then when the user ends the application, his/her connection to the Citrix server is terminal.

Is this "do-able" ?
Is it difficult ?
If someone has done this, can I ask for you to share just how you did it so that I might do the same ?

Thanks in advance.

Ray in Wisconsin



I am useing the WEB interface.
After sucessfully logging on to the Citrix server, the user is presented with a screen that gives them a choice of applications to run.
I want to figure out a way for the user to NOT see this screen and NOT have to select which application to to.

With Terminal Server, I know how to start an application as soon as the users logs on.
And when the user ends the application, the users session automatically ends.

Answer : Starting an application with XenApp 5.0 without the user selecting it.

It sounds like you would be better off using program neighborhood agent rather than the WI.  PNA will put icons either on the user's desktop or start menu, and they click them and the program runs from citrix but almost appears to be on their computer.

Take a look here on how to set it up, this is for 4.0 I think but XenApp should be similar.

http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Configure-Citrix-Program-Neighborhood-Agent.html