Thursday, 9 August 2012

XenApp 6.5 Published Application on network drive fail to launch

Published applications on a network drive fail to launch

In the eventlog you may see messages like
Event ID 10000 H:\apps\thisapp.exe is not valid on XXXX verify the correct servers and/or worker groups are assigned

By default XenApp 6.5 performs a check that the published application location is valid on the server.
If publishing applications that are stored on users network drives the application will fail to launch as the server is unaware of the drive mapping.  

eg. H:\apps\thisapp.exe

A workaround is to use a UNC path for the data area, though the local system account of the server will need access to the data area in order to check that it exist.

Another workaround is to use the solution documented in Citrix article CTX131565 or use a UNC path  instead of a drive letter. The servers local system account will need access to the UNC path in order to validate the applications existence.

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