Access Gateway Standard (Model 2000) version 4.6 is out for some time but it looks like Citrix forget to mention an important feature! I outlined the functionality to Citrix during the beta test of 4.6 and even said they should document it. I couldn't find it in the documentation and even the online documentation of XenApp 5.0 FP2 states that it would require the Advanced Edition.

With 4.6.x you are now able to partly use the "Access control" feature of XenApp published applications. This allows disabling applications in Web Interface when coming through the Gateway. This is NOT just hiding the application is disabled in that scenario.

Be aware, by setting the Access control option you break session sharing on purpose for the application otherwise the app would be reconnected when connecting through the Gateway. The filter option are only working with the advanced edition.

Ever heard of the Web Interface Session Sharing Key? Probably not but my guess is some companies are having issues with it without knowing. Of course they see sessions are not sharing and even open different sessions on the same XenApp server. I wrote an article about Understanding Citrix Seamless Engine some years ago and the article explains sharing issues with published applications but the Web Interface session sharing key is another story that I will explain here.

The Session Sharing Key plays a role when:

• Using a Web Interface site and the online/offline plug-in at the same time
• Using a Web Interface site to launch a session Desktop and within the online/offline plug-in
• Using a Web Interface site to launch a VM Desktop (xenDesktop) and within the online/offline plug-in

You are doing one of the above, then you should continue to read.

Citrix made some internal changes with Web Interface 5.2 and the reason why previous modifications need to be changed slightly as well. Here now the Hide App/Folder release

• xenApp Web 5.0, HideApps4.5-5.2-v1.6.zip
  from the Citrix Web Interface SDK for WI 4.5, 4.6 , 5.1 and 5.2

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Quite some people where requesting the 1Click Solutiion for Web Interface 4.6 and here it is. It's quite simple to change the 4.5 version to 4.6, just enable the search within files and the rest is easy... 

Download

• 1Click Solution for Web Interface 4.6
  1Click4.6-v1.3.zip

The Web Interface 1Click solution becomes Citrix SingleClick for Web Interface 5.2! Just browsed the Citrix knowledge base and found the SingleClick article. Great that Citrix is now officially supporting that solution :-)

• How to Prevent Web Interface Users from Starting Multiple Instances of the Same Resource by Clicking More Than Once
  http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122871