Citrix xenapp 6 published windows explorer

Objective This article describes how to publish specific drives and folders as it is not recommended to publish Explorer. The method of copying and renaming the Explorer. When doing this, there might be other issues,for example, session becomes unresponsive or becomes slow when starting several instances of the renamed Explorer2.

These issues are the result of internal Explorer. Method 3 Publish Firefox. Example For Share Folder. It is not recommended or supported by the Citrix Development Team. CTX - Explorer. These software applications are provided to you as is with no representations, warranties or conditions of any kind.

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Was this page helpful? Thank you! If you publish a full brokered desktop on Windows 10, it is fine, and if you publish the File Explorer application on a brokered Server OS, it also works fine. All the other tricks mentioned above also fail in exactly the same way — the app launches OK but the Search functionality is unable to be used. But — I did find one, peculiar, way of making it work. If you launch the executable for Control Panel — control.

For a long time, the Control Panel has simply been a special folder within the shell itself, so it needs File Explorer to function. The key is though, if you call Control Panel this way, the published File Explorer instance has a functional search! The key is — well, keystrokes. If you can send the required number of keystrokes to the published application as it launches, you can navigate the user into the required folder.

If you want to navigate to other folders for instance, This PC , then simply add the required keystrokes. One thing to bear in mind is getting the delay right an environment I did this in had the WEM agent starting up which caused a slight delay for the keystrokes to be sent.

You can then either set up a published app that calls powershell. Is publishing File Explorer a good idea? Coming soon — more logon times stuff, FSLogix and Teams, as well as some performance testing within the browser.

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