Virtual Channel Plugin Manager overview
Understanding the Feature
Citrix® understands the customers’ environments can be complex and deploying a plugin across managed and unmanaged endpoints requires significant effort. This feature is designed to simplify the process.
This feature includes two components:. One on the VDA side (detector process) and another on the Citrix Workspace™ App side (installer process). When administrators meet the prerequisites mentioned above, such as enabling policies, making registry entries and specifying an application to monitor:
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The VDA side detector process monitors for the application launch by the end user once they logon to the Virtual desktop
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The detector process informs the Citrix Workspace App side to prompt the user to install the plugin necessary to optimize the specified application
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Users receive a pop-up on their screen with brief details about the plugin. Users can choose to install the plugin, skip or choose to never install it
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If users skip the installation process, they will not see the pop-up again in that session. The installation prompt will appear upon session reconnect.
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If users choose to never install the plugin, the choice will be logged in their user profile for administrator visibility.
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If users choose to install the plugin, the Citrix Workspace App side will download and install the plugin on the endpoint.
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On successful installation, the user will be shown a message to reconnect the session for the plugin to take effect. The user can choose to do it immediately or close the success message and do a reconnect later.
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If the installation fails, the user will see an error message and the failure will be logged for administrator visibility.
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