Citrix: The (not so) hidden C: drive caused by XA650W2K8R2X64011

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Kees Baggerman·Senior Technical Director at Nutanix – Former Citrix CTP – NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor – 15+ years in EUC

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Yesterday I was discussing the Mobility pack with a co-worker on a project and he told me his start menu was changed. After logging into the desktop with my iPad I recognized the mobility pack (which is a good step in new functionality). He was wondering how it got installed so after some investigation he found the reason, he had been installing hotfixes on his system and installed Hotfix XA650W2K8R2X64011 and the readme says:

This release is a part of the XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack. Documentation for the mobility pack is available in eDocs athttp://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp65-w2k8/ps-mobility-pack-landing-page.html. To install the mobility pack in its entirety, you must install:

• Server hotfix XA650W2K8R2X64011.msp
• Group Policy Management Console hotfixes CitrixGroupPolicyManagement_x64.msi (GPMx150WX64002) and/or CitrixGroupPolicyManagement_x86.msi (GPMx150WX86002)

After installing the GPMC Hotfixes he was able to disable the Mobility pack via policies. One of the stranger things we noticed was that although the C: drive was hidden via policies it could be accessed when using the Mobility pack, I remembered Dennis van Dam saying something like that on twitter and I found the following threat on the Citrix forums  Mobility Pack and Group Policies where other people were having the same experiences but the topic seems to be dead, when there’s an update I will test it and report it back in this blogpost.

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Kees Baggerman

Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.

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Kees Baggerman

Senior Technical Director at Nutanix - Former Citrix CTP - NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor - 15+ years in EUC

Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.

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