December 18th, 2007Citrix Web Interface Web Part
Found an awesome array of features provided by Citrix that enables users to access their Citrix distributed applications right from SharePoint.
This will prove very useful for our Physician’s Portal. Now our physician’s can access hospital applications from their office or home without leaving the SharePoint portal!
Citrix has some great documentation on how to install/configure this Web Part. Here is probably a good place to start. You will have to get the WISP (Web Interface for SharePoint) .wsp files through your MyCitrix account. Be sure to grab the administrator’s guide too.
The requirements are:
Citrix Presentation Server (of course!)
WSS 3.0 and/or MOSS 2007 (duh!)
Visual J# 2.0 Second Edition (installed on all your WFE)
For the most part installing and deploying the solutions was a breeze. I used page 17 from the guide. Followed the steps VERY carefully.
NOTE: The CitrixWssCore.wsp has to be installed/deployed before anything else!
Setting up Single Sign-On turned out to be a bit of a challenge. Here are some steps that might prove handy:
1. Go to the server that is running your Central Admin. Under Administrative Tools > Services ensure that the “Microsoft Single Sign-on Service” is set to start automatically. I would also go into properties of this service and specify an administrator account under the “Log On” account. I just chose our SharePoint farm administrator account. If you change the account make sure to restart the service.
2. Load up Central Admin and go to Operations > Manage Single Sign-On. This administers the Single-Sign On service and apparently can only be accessed through the local machine (I’m sure there is a way around this, any ideas?) For the remainder of these steps I would suggest doing them from the server running Central Admin.
3. Click on “Manage server settings” and specify an account name or group that will access to create databases in your SharePoint configuration. You should choose the same account that you specified for the MSSO service in step 1.
4. Now navigate to the site in which you are planning to run the Citrix web part. Under the site settings for that site you should see “Citrix Administration”. (That’s of course assuming that you activated it under “Site collection features” on the same site settings page)
5. Under “Citrix Administration” click “Single Sign-On”
6. The settings we’ve got are “Pass-Through” for Client Single Sign-On and “Microsoft Single Sign-On” for the Server Single Sign-On
7. Above you will see a link to apply your settings and then configure Microsoft Single Sign-On. Well….Do what it says!
8. Fill in the form with your custom information and submit it. That should be it.
This configuration seemed to work for us. If you are still having trouble, or you’re seeing the “Resources not found” message in your Citrix Web Part, try this thread for more information.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Travis,
Thanks for the info. I’ve been fighting the quirks of getting this up and running and having WISP available was the last requirement I had to fulfill to make some of the legacy minded management happy so I could move onto more productive MOSS items.
-Bryan Bowman
Entec Polymers, LLC.
November 26th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Looks great I am having a hard tiem maybe I missed something when I go to add the web part I get an unexpected error and I have to remove the web part in order for th site to come back up.
Did you see this issue?
September 17th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
This is the scenario, i am running into:
1. In citrix client, i opened the WSS 3.0 site.
2. Edited a calendar item and saved the edited rich text box control in the editform.aspx page of the calendar.
3. Second time i clicked the Edit, when the Editform.aspx page opens up
the rich text control body is empty. It does not contain the information.
Please let me know about this error and how can it be solved when accessing a sharepoint site from citrix client.
September 18th, 2009 at 6:21 am
jaideep -
I’m afraid I don’t know the exact answer to your question. However, I can tell you that we have used SharePoint through Citrix for our physicians. For the most part, our SharePoint site operates, through Citrix, just like it would if we were accessing it outside of Citrix. We have encountered issues where SharePoint would prompt for authentication. I have not encountered what you are describing while accessing our site through Citrix.
Does this issue occur when you access the site directly, outside of Citrix?
September 20th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
This issue happens only when accessing the sharepoint calendar or announcement (if there are rich text controls for the list item) only within citrix client. It works fine from outside.
I will try to explain:
1. Create a new list item in calendar
2. Save some content for the description or title.
3. Edit the list item.
4.Edit the description or title (do not overried but append some text on the exisiting content of the description or title)
5.Save it.
6.Again edit the list item. The body of the description or title dissappears.
This does not happen outside of citrix.
September 21st, 2009 at 7:10 am
Jaideep –
I completed your above steps using Citrix on an Announcements list.
I tried several times to append to an item and each time I went back to edit, the text and title were there. I even tried making rich text edits (color, font-size, etc.).
I am not able to re-create your issue.
I could check with our Citrix Administrator. What version of Citrix do you have deployed?
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:13 am
I will check on the version of citrix deployed and update you. What is the latest version of citrix? Kindly let me know.Thank you so much.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:14 am
Jaideep -
I just checked with our Citrix administrator. I tested your issue on version 11.1 Hope that helps.
July 19th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Anyone find a solution to the Rich Text edits issue ??