Profiling Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.2
Posted on October 21st, 2009
In order to profile Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.2 for Citrix streaming I did the following.
Stage 1 – Download source files
Download and install the Adobe Customization wizard 9
Download the distribution version of Acrobat reader 9.2. You need to register on the adobe site to get access to this download.
Extract the msi from the .exe that was downloaded by running the following
AdbeRdr920_en_US.exe” -nos_ne -nos_o”Extracted”
This will place the extracted files in the “Extracted” folder
Stage 2 – Create a customised installation
Open the customization wizard
Open the Reader msi (extracted above)
Select the options desired. I chose the following:
Supress display of EULA
Remove acrobat.com features
disbale all updates
disable help | Digital editions
Disable product improvement programs
Disable help | Purchase acrobat
Save the customisation MST file
Stage 3 – install
Create a .cmd file that contains the install string including the MST file. For example:
msiexec /i “acroread.msi” TRANSFORMS=”adobe_9_2_transform.MST”
Launch this .cmd file from the Citrix Streaming Profiler
Install as normal
Stage 4 – Add a pre-launch script
Even though the option to disable updates was selected during the customisation wizard, it is not disabled when streaming the app. The same applies to the customer improvment program.
The best way to remove these is to run a pre-launch script to set the reg keys to remove these options.
Create a .vbs script with the following contents
Set objWshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
objWshShell.RegWrite “HKLM\Software\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM\iCheck”, 0 ,”REG_DWORD”
objWshShell.RegWrite “HKCU\Software\Adobe\CommonFiles\Usage\Reader 9\OptIn”, 0 ,”REG_DWORD”Call this script as a pre-launch script within the streaming profiler.
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Tags: 9.2, adobe, customer improvment program, profiler, reader, script, stream, streaming, updates
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Remove the Network icon from the systray – Windows 2008
Posted on September 10th, 2009
Windows 2008 has some icons that appear in the systray by default. The network icon is an example that appears even in a terminal server or Citrix session, as shown:
It is un-necessary clutter that would be best to remove in the terminal server session. However, there is no Group Policy option to do this in a Windows 2003 domain.
The following registry keys are available and can be used to remove all the systray icons:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideSCAVolume
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoAutoTrayNotify
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideSCANetwork
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoTrayItemsDisplay
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideClock
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideSCAPower
These can be added as a REG_DWORD and set to 1 to enable the setting.
They can also be added to the HKCU hive if required.
Tags: hide, icon, network, network icon, NIC, registry, remove, systray, Windows 2008
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Using Web Interface 5.x to send the full UPN username to a RADIUS server
Posted on September 2nd, 2009
Situation
Web Interface 5.1 (or 5.x)
Two factor authentication server is RADIUS
All user accounts use the full UPN name to login (i.e. user.name@domain.com)
Problem
By default, Web Interface does not send the full UPN username to the RADIUS server, so the two factor authentication fails.
Resolution
The following file needs to be edited to force Web Interface to send the full UPN username to the two factor authentication RADIUS server.
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\RADIUS\app_code\PagesJava\com\citrix\wi\pageutils\TwoFactorAuth.java
The method that requires changing is public static String getUserName(UPNCredentials token, boolean fullyQualified) at line 131
it should be changed to be:
public static String getUserName(UPNCredentials token, boolean fullyQualified) {
/*if (fullyQualified) {
return token.getShortDomain() + “\\” + token.getShortUserName();
} else {
return token.getShortUserName();
}*/
return token.getUserIdentity(); // This returns the full UPN as entered by the user
}
Web inteface 5.1 will now send the full UPN name to the RADIUS server.
References
Previous versions of Web Interface have different files that need to be edited.
Tags: edit, inetpub, radius, RSA SecurID, signify, two factor, UPN, username, web interface
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Script variable trimming
Posted on May 8th, 2009
Suppose you are trying to run some scripts based on a command line variable, but the variable being passed to it is surrounded by quote marks.
i.e. “device_name” when all i want is device_name
There is an easy way to trim this. In the script need to set this passed variable to a seperate variable, and then trim it byt doing the following:
SET tempvariable=%1 (need to set %%1 if its run as a script file)
echo %1 (will show “device_name”)
echo %tempvariable% (will show “device_name”)
echo %tempvariable:~1,-1% (will show device_name)
The trimmed variable can then be used for another task, i.e. to start a service on a remote server
sc \\%tempvariable:~1,-1% start “ServiceName”
Happy trimming!
Tags: ", %1, clean, cmd, device_name, edgesight, remove, sc, script, set, trimming, variable
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Script to export all the servers in a Citrix Farm
Posted on April 27th, 2009
Sometimes it is useful to have a list of servers in a text file in order to perform some other task. The following script will export all servers from a Citrix Farm and add them to a text file.
This script uses the built in Citrix tool, qfarm, and cleans up the output to provide the required list. It uses a temporary file (qfarmservers.txt) during the process and deletes it at the end.
REM ***************************************************
REM qfarmservers = output from a qfarm /servers
REM serverlist = cleaned up list of all servers in farm
REM ***************************************************SET qfarmservers=c:\windows\temp\qfarmservers.txt
SET serverlist=c:\windows\temp\serverlist.txtqfarm /servers >>%qfarmServers%
for /f “skip=3 tokens=1″ %%1 in (%qfarmservers%) do (
echo %%1 >> %serverlist%
)
Del %qfarmservers% /q
Just change the log file location(s) as required.
Tags: Citrix, export, Presentation Server, qfarm, script, server, serverlist, servers, text, XenApp
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