Citrix has came up with an utility to fully uninstalled and removed Citrix Receiver from a workstation / server. Based on their article, this utility must be used in one or more of these situations :
Receiver or Online Plug-in is installed but the old components still exist or creating abnormal scenarios.
Receiver or Online Plug-in components must be cleaned before troubleshooting or installation.
Receiver or Online Plug-in are unable to function and the product is unable to install or uninstall.
However, not all OS can use this utility. It only can be applied to these products :
Windows 8 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows 2008 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows 2008 R2
Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
Description : To uninstall Citrix Receiver, and perform cleanup so there is no trace of Citrix Receiver inside the workstation / server.
How To Do :
Right click at Citrix Receiver Clean Up Utility, and choose Run as administrator.
Key in 1 and press Enter to properly remove Citrix Receiver.
Running….
Once completed, you will see this screen. Press 1 to reboot the workstation.
I received a request by my clients to enable pass-through to their Citrix Web Interface site. Not more than a few minutes after completion, they made a few complaints, saying that they needed to supply their credentials every time they launched published applications, which defeats the Single Sign-On (SSO) purposes. After a few minutes of troubleshooting, I realized that, in order to enable pass-through, there are more steps need to be taken, not simply enabling the feature.
Description :
Properly enabling Pass-Through, so users wot have to supply credentials every time they launched Citrix published applications, as below :
How To Do :
Uninstall current installed Citrix Receiver
Once un-installation completed, open command prompt, and type CMD
Browse to the installer location, and run command ( CitrixReceiver.exe /includeSSON )to install Receiver with SSON enabled
Proceed with installation
When you can see this in Programs and Features, it means the installation is already completed.
Go to start > run and type GPEDIT.MSC
Add new ADM template for this purpose, by choosing Add/Remove Templates...
Press Add.
Add the template which can be located at this path (%SystemDrive%\Program Files (x86)\ICA Client\Configuration ). The file name is icaclient.adm
Template added. Press Close
Browse to this path ( Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Classic Administrative Templates (ADM) > Citrix Components > Citrix Receiver > User authentication )
Right click at setting ( Local user and password ), and choose Edit
Enable the setting
Enable the first 2 options ( Enable pass-through authentication & Allow pass-trough authentication for all ICA connection)
This is the outcome, press Apply and OK
Reboot the machine (or use GPUPDATE /FORCE) , once up access your CWI.
p/s : if it happened that users still unable to utilizing SSO, please refer to here in order to use Citrix Receiver Clean Up Utility.
