Citrix Receiver 4.x

Citrix Receiver 4.1 facts
- Has the ability to create start menu shortcuts using publish settings
- Has the ability to create a folder in the start menu and in there all apps
- Has the ability to create apps in add/remove programs
- The self-service plug-in can be pre-configured through command line or GPO
- The self-service plug-in can use single sign-on (SSON), admin rights required
- Applications can be auto applied and soon also as mandatory apps
- Requires Citrix StoreFront to work properly
- Works internal and external when StoreFront is configured with a Gateway
- Uses SSO internal but show two way authentication from external if configured
- Through beacons differentiates between internal- and external network
- Can be auto provisioned with a provision file

What needs to be better with Receiver?

• The whole single sign-on is quite complex to configure and needs to be easier
• Citrix needs to think more of customer using Receiver on unmanaged devices. Self-service is for the cloud and there I cannot set group polices on the device.
• The previous is also true for other settings. In early days you could change centrally the ica template and things worked at the client even unmanaged. Now client seamless flags can only be set by gpo
• The self-service plug-in needs to be constantly quick. If a user double clicks the Receiver icon then the Window must come right away and not minutes later.
• The start menu integration update is quite slow if it works at all. For an update re-install Receiver!?
• The Receiver settings are quite hidden and a pain to open. Sometimes I think they recompile Receiver each time I want to go into settings, especially if you have more plug-ins loaded
• Mandatory apps, notification messages, auto launch I mean, hello this is a very old story!
• Company branding? Why not uploading customizations with the provision file? All Receiver look the same as my company, not as Citrix!
• GPO is the way Citrix goes? Then why isn't there a real gpo to allow client mappings instead of registry hacks? This is causing a lot of issues with users.   
• Install, upgrade and especially uninstall must work easily and not by a bunch of manual tasks and afterwards the Citrix Cleanup Utility
• Citrix should make sure Receiver works with other components like VDA. Cross testing? Does that anyone at Citrix?