Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Virtual Channel Plugin Manager

Deployment

  1. Check if the Microsoft Teams redirection policy is enabled: Refer Microsoft Teams redirection policy for more details.

    This policy must be enabled regardless of the application being monitored. In the future, if more applications are supported and you want to monitor those applications instead of Microsoft Teams, this policy must still be enabled. Note that this policy is enabled by default.

  2. Virtual channel plugin manager policy must be enabled: Refer Virtual channel plugin manager policy settings for detailed instructions on how to enable the policy.

    This policy is available in the Multimedia Policy Settings on Citrix Studio. Enabling the policy allows you to specify the application name to be monitored For Example., “Microsoft Teams”. This policy is disabled by default.

  3. Citrix Workspace app must be installed in system wide mode.

Note:

The plugins are downloaded to the endpoint from the third party CDN. For example, if you select Microsoft Teams, the plugin will be downloaded from the Microsoft CDN. Therefore, the endpoint must have access to the third party CDN. Otherwise, the plugin installation will fail.

Procedure

  1. User launches application on the Citrix session. For e.g., Microsoft Teams.

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  2. User receives a pop up to install the Teams VDI plugin on the endpoint for better experience. The pop up is above the session and not inside the session as the plugin will be installed on the endpoint.

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  3. User clicks on the install button and the plugin is installed. Users need to restart the virtual desktop session for the changes to take effect.

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Known Issues & Limitations

  • In 2407 VDA, the following registry setting needs to be set to 1 on the VDA in addition to the policy for the feature to be activated. This registry setting is automatically allowed and not required to be configured from 2411 VDA

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\HDXMediaStream\ Name: EnableAppDetector Type: DWORD

  • More limitations to be added

Virtual Channel Plugin Manager