How to Enable Read-Only Client Drive Mapping and Clipboard Mapping for XenApp

Objective

This article describes how to enable Read-only Client Drive Mapping and Clipboard Mapping for XenApp

Background

One of the new configurable features of XenApp 4.5 for Windows 2003 32-bit or 64-bit, Hotfix Rollup Pack 5 Feature Pack 2 or later is the option to make Client Drive Mapping and Clipboard Mapping read-only. This is as per server configurable registry key.

Requirements

These features are not available unless hotfixes are applied. Read-only Clipboard functionality requires a fix that addresses CPR #211433. Read-only client drive functionality requires a fix that addresses CPR #256757.

Instructions

Caution! Refer to the Disclaimer at the end of this article before using Registry Editor.

XenApp 4.5/5.0 2003 & 2008

The following registry locations are the same for both 32-bit and 64-bit servers.

To enable read-only Client Drive Mapping, set the following registry key on each XenApp server:

1. Open the registry and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdm\Parameters

2. Create a DWORD value with the value name ReadOnlyMappedDrive and value data 1.

3. Restart the XenApp server.

To enable read-only Clipboard Mapping, set the following registry key on each XenApp server.

1. Open the registry and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\Virtual Clipboard

2. Create a DWORD value with the value name ReadOnly and value data 1.

3. Restart the XenApp server.

XenApp 6.0/6.5 2008 R2

To enable read-only mapped drive, set the following registry key on each XenApp server:

1. Open the registry and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\services\picadm\Parameters

2. Create a DWORD value with the value name ReadOnlyMappedDrive and value data 1.

3. Restart the XenApp server.

To enable read-only Clipboard Mapping, set the following registry key on each XenApp server.

1. Open the registry and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\Virtual Clipboard

2. Create a DWORD value with the value name ReadOnly and value data 1.

3. Restart the XenApp server.

Additional Resources

The read-only Client Drive Mapping setting allows the users to read files on their mapped client drives but not save any information to them.

The read-only Clipboard mapping setting allows the users to copy and paste text into a published application, but they are unable to copy information from a published application back to their workstation, which means that the data that is copied to the clipboard from a published application does not show up in the local client’s clipboard buffer.

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