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Enable Print Screen Key for Citrix Presentation Web Interface

Citrix LogoThe company I work for uses Citrix to deliver Terminal Services desktops to users through-out the organization and remotely. One of the applications used relies heavily on allowing the “Print Screen” button to generate a print job. Within the walls of the organization this work quite well. We have Wyse Winterm 1200LE’s that pass the “Print Screen” key press through to the Citrix servers quite effectively. However, when using the Citrix Web Interface remotely the “Print Screen” function is captured by the host operating system and not passed through the Citrix ICA web client to the server.

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Enabling the Clock in the Taskbar for Terminal Services Sessions

Most people are accustomed to having a clock in the notification area (also known as the system tray) on their windows desktop. In the Microsoft Terminal Services world that isn’t the default behavior. The clock is hidden by default for remote sessions to save network traffic caused by screen refreshes occuring at minute intervals. The problem I’ve found is that when users are used to having something as simple as a clock in their notification area, they aren’t very understanding when it is no longer there.

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