(*** Note*** - This fixes Citrix / launch.ica issues for individual desktops. I didn't see much material on this in my Google searches and am documenting it for any other support person who doesn't troubleshoot Citrix regularly.)So...Citrix clients...
Citrix being one of the foremost shared-app providers gives your Windows, Mac or Linux clients a browser-driven option to access your business applications rather than having to install the fat client on every conceivable laptop or workstation they might try to do business from. Very innovative - but what do you do when it fouls up? The application itself can be disabled in IE or Mozilla by disabling add-ons (see screenshot) but if the Citrix server, which normally pushes the web client, refuses to push the client - you really might be up the proverbial creek. What we found is, despite rebooting and removing the directory, the plug-in refused to push and Citrix kept pushing the launch.ica file and with nothing associated to that file extension, we couldn't open any published application.
Here's one of those times where Google didn't help - all my searches that included 'launch.ica' came back with a server-related solution and in this case, it was only one workstation. Am I stuck?
Not necessarily. You can visit Citrix and get the web client by going to the Client Downloads section. Don't be confused - XenApp is Citrix, download the XenApp Plugin and run the installer. When there, select the web installer only to install and allow it to load. Once all that was completed, the user was able to launch his published apps.
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