Hello,
First time poster and I'm pretty new to application packaging. I was just brought onto the team at my workplace and ran into a huge brick wall with this application.
Background: Our finance department uses an ADP hosted Citrix environment for one of their job functions. They go to a website which requires the installation of the Citrix Online Plugin V12-web plugin. This is an active x plugin for Internet Explorer. When they log in they are given three links. These links launch a .ICA file and then the plugin will connect to the Citrix environment (hosted at ADP) and, for example, map a drive on our client computer to access specific files in the remote location.
Problem: When I package the application I cannot get the necessary functions to, well, function.
What did I do: I took a clean VM and did a pre-scan. Then I installed the plugin. Then I confirmed that I could connect to the website and perform the necessary functions. Then I did a postscan. I captured the application in Merged-isolation mode. I built the application as a separate .DAT file and I enabled all of the plugin executables as entry points, as the application uses several of the executables during the normal operation. I also enabled internet explorer and configured it to go directly to the website. The user will simply launch this IE shortcut.
Results: I can log in to the website. Internet Explorer recognizes that the Active X plugin is there and enabled. I click the .ICA file link and IE downloads it to a temporary directory and fails. Well, no file association. So I associated the .ICA file with the entry point wfcrun32.exe which is how it is configured on the capture VM. Tried again. ThinApp launches wfcrun32.exe and then nothing happens.
Theories: In my research it looks like the Active X plugin, upon entry to the website, automatically launches wfcrun32.exe in the background under the svchost.exe service (this is what it does in the capture VM). When you click the .ICA link, wfcrun32.exe executes it and then calls wfica32.exe (another entry point). This actually creates the Citrix connection. For some reason this is not happening correctly.
Note: Running wfcrun32.exe or wfica32.exe against a downloaded .ICA file exhibits the same results - It looks like it is launching and then nothing happens.
Has anyone had any experience with this by chance? Any other ideas to look into?
Thanks,
Richard