When we publish out a shared desktop in Citrix we restrict the control panel items via Group Policy (seen below) that way non admins using the desktop do not have access to system management items. So we need to make exceptions and the Mail icon is included with this.

The items listed above are the items that we have exceptions for. For some of the items I was able to I was able to simply write the “visual name” of the item in the control panel and then the icon would show up. However the ticket was delayed as I needed to figure out what the magic bullet was. I tried Mail or Mail (32-bit) but the icon would not show up. So this morning I tried putting the actual application cpl name and “voila”, it shows up.

Streaming different java versions to Internet Explorer in a shared XenApp desktop or XenDesktop can be confusing from the user perspective due to the fact the user can’t always tell which Internet Explorer contains which version of Java? The user isn’t really expected to know nor are users generally computer savvy enough to know the difference. For example in the screen cap below you would not notice in a side by side comparison which Internet Explorer has Java 1.5 and which one is using 1.7:

The user could easily lose track of which browser has which version of Java. So what we want to do is make a distinction between the streamed version and the local version. This can easily be done by adding a registry entry to the profiled Java application simply open your Profiled Java and modify the properties. Go to Advanced install….

Edit the registry….

Launch the registry….

Create the following registry keys

Save the profile and republish. Once complete launch the application again and you should see

You can see the IE browser on the right now has no address bar or tabs. This way the user will use the browser with the address bar with the locally installed Java without issue. The one with the streamed java and no address bar will only be used for the application intended.