Have you seen this? Published Applications Do Not Appear in the Citrix Management Console Document ID: CTX102683 Created: Oct 9, 2003 Updated: Sep 14, 2005 Products: Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Microsoft Windows 2000, Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Microsoft NT 4.0 Server Terminal Server Edition, Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Microsoft Windows 2003, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 for Microsoft Windows 2000, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 for Microsoft Windows 2003, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 for Microsoft Windows 2000, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 for Microsoft Windows 2003 Issue Published applications don't appear in the Citrix Management Console. Cause A published application is an executable that calls another executable and then terminates (for example, to publish the Citrix Management Console, you publish Ctxload.exe, but the executable that stays running is Javaw.exe) and the user already has a session open with another application that is used by only one executable (that is, Microsoft Word uses only Winword.exe). The Citrix Management Console tracks the executable that is published, in this case, Ctxload.exe. Because Ctxload.exe calls Javaw.exe and then unloads itself from memory, the Citrix Management Console thinks that Ctxload.exe is no longer running and stops displaying that information. Steps to Reproduce 1. Publish Notepad (\WINNT\notepad.exe). 2. Publish the Citrix Management Console on the same server (\Program Files\Citrix\Administration\ctxload.exe). 3. Open Notepad as a published application. 4. Open the Citrix Management Console as a published application. Under Sessions you see only a session for Notepad, but under the executables you see Notepad.exe and Javaw.exe. Resolution This behavior was originally by design. For MetaFrame XP, install Post Service Pack 3 Hotfix XE103W2K056 or its equivalent and apply the registry changes outlined below. MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 and Presentation Server 4.0 includes the fixes introduced in MetaFrame XP Post Service Pack 3 Hotfix XE103W2K056, but the registry changes below must still be applied. 27. If a published application was a program that created a new process and then terminated itself, the published application appeared in the Citrix Management Console. However, in a seamless session the application was launched through session sharing, the application appeared in the Citrix Management Console but then disappeared. By default, the thread that checks the process cares about only the first instance of the launched process. The thread regarded the published application as terminated when the first instance of the process was terminated even if that process created a separate process. This fix provides a way to configure those published applications to use the JOB object so that additional processes created by the initial process are considered as published applications. For this fix to work properly, you need to perform the following steps: If the command line of the published application is [ApplicationPath], go to the following registry key and make changes as necessary: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI\Start InJobObject Key Value: [ApplicationPath] Type: DWORD Value: 0 . For example, if the command like specified for the published application is c:\notepad.cmd, go to the following registry key and make changes as necessary: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI\Start InJobObject Key Value: c:\notepad.cmd Type: DWORD Value: 0 For those applications whose command line is specified in the StartInJobObject key, the published application will not disappear from the Citrix Management Console until all of the processes created by the process are terminated. [From Hotfix XE103W2K056][#63894] Note: If the path to the script that launches the application contain spaces, such as c:\program files\test.cmd, add quotation marks around the Key Value: "c:\program files\test.cmd" CTX107592 - Citrix <http://support.citrix.com/article/entry.jspa?entryID=7877> Management Console Does Not Show Connected Users Under the Individual Server Node http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX102683 <http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX102683&searchID=27102328> &searchID=27102328 _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:49 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Applications Listed in the Presentation Server Console Hello, Has anyone run into an issue in which the Published application does not appear in the Presentation Server Console. Only those Published Applications that launch a script/batch file seem to be affected. I found a similar issue in the archives, but that was for XP FR3/SP4 Rollup 1. This environment is PS4 Rollup 1. Thanks, Joe