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[jeroenvdberg]

I am relatively new to PowerFuse. The company I work for has been using PowerFuse 2008 for some time now to publish applications on XenApp 4.5 / Windows Server 2003. A Desktop has been created in the PowerFuse Management Console (using Citrix Integration). In fact this is not a "real" published desktop, it's just a published application that starts a desktop.

We are planning to use a published desktop that was created in Citrix Access Management Console. To make sure the applications created in the PowerFuse console appear in the startmenu of the published desktop, we need to start pwrstart.exe (or pwfsmgr.exe). We tried to run it by setting the path to the exe in the ICA/TCP object (Terminal Services Configuration), but unfortunately that was unsuccessful. The result is that the end users get error message "To log on to this remote computer, you must have Terminal Server User Access Permissions on this computer." We do not want to place users in the Remote Desktop Users group, that would give them Remote Desktop permissions.

My question is: what is the best practise for starting pwrstart.exe within a Citrix Published Desktop?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.


Jeroen van den Berg
The Netherlands

[whocarez]

Is there a technical reason to use the xenapp published desktop instead of the powerfuse published application.

I've been working with the combination powerfuse and citrix for 6 years now and always used the citrix integration. It saves the headache of configuring Citrix manualy. And it also prevents that powerfuse is started twice on logon, which results in a instant logoff when composing workspace.

A Note from the Tech crew of RES How to set the Powerfuse shell to start on logon

FOR CITRIX:

In the node RES PowerFuse Management Console > RES PowerFuse Setup > Integration > Citrix Integration, you can create a published application for the RES PowerFuse Desktop. Please note that RES PowerFuse is a desktop session and therefore needs to start full screen.

In AD you can also configure this in a GPO. Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System -> "Custom user interface", and fill in the correct path to pwrstart.exe. This starts RES PowerFuse when a user launches a Citrix Desktop.
 

[jeroenvdberg]

Many thanks for your answer. I do not know the exact reason for using a Citrix published desktop, it's not my decision. We will try the GPO-setting. If that solution brings up disadvantages, I reckon we might actually end up using a desktop that was defined using Citrix Integration. I will post our experiences in this topic.