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How to Repackage the Presentation Server Client for 32-bit Windows Microsoft Installer Package

Document ID: CTX112961 / Created On: 11-mag-2007 / Updated On: 4-set-2007

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Summary

This article describes how to repackage the Presentation Server Client for 32-bit Windows Microsoft Installer (MSI) package.

Requirements

The procedure described in this article only works on the full Presentation Server Client MSI package (ica32pkg.msi). It does not work with the Web Client MSI package (ica32web.msi).

The Presentation Server Client version 10.0 MSI includes the following supported localized language interfaces: German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. If you intend to deploy a customized Presentation Server Client package with any of the above supported language interfaces, complete the procedure described below on a system running a matching operating system language.

For example:

To deploy a customized Presentation Server Client with a Japanese interface to a Japanese Windows XP system, complete the procedure described below on a Japanese Windows XP system.

However, if you wanted to deploy a customized Presentation Server Client with an English interface to a Japanese Windows XP system, complete the procedure described below on an English Windows XP system.

If you want to deploy a customized Presentation Server Client to a system with a language interface that is not officially supported, complete the procedure described below on an English system.

Known Issue

If you click the Modify option for the Presentation Server Client in Add or Remove Programs to either Modify , Repair , or Remove , the uninstall process fails to proceed further after clicking the Next button. This issue occurs on a Windows system with a repackaged Presentation Server Client (10.0 or 10.1) installed that has one or more user dialog boxes hidden (that is, “Splash Screen” is hidden during the installation. See Step 12 below).

To uninstall the client:

Click the Remove option on Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

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Issue the following command:

msiexec.exe /uninstall ica32pkg.msi

To work around this issue, a private MSI transform file is available for use along with a repackaged ica32pkg.msi file. However, you must uninstall and reinstall the client with the transform file on the system with the existing repackaged Presentation Server Client.

This issue will be addressed in an upcoming release of the Presentation Server Client 10.150 MSI package. If you wish to obtain the transform file to work around this issue, contact Citrix Technical Support and refer to CPR 166978.

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Procedure

Note : If you are not making any custom changes to the Presentation Server Client installation files (i.e. custom .ini files and so on), download the client package (ica32pkg.msi) and skip to the To recompress the Presentation Server Client files into a single MSI file section below (i.e. if you only wanted to hide the welcome screen or a predefined Program Neighborhood URL, and so on).

To decompress the MSI package:

1. Download the Presentation Server Client version 10.x MSI from Citrix Presentation Server Clients - Version 10.0 (download the Client Package Version 10.0 ) and issue the following command: msiexec /a c:\ica32pkg.msi

2. The Welcome to Client Packager Setup screen appears.

3. Set your directory to decompress the entire MSI package and select the Uncompressed – all source files are copied to the directory radio button.



4. Accept the license agreement and click Next .

5. Select the Presentation Server Client components you want to install.



6. Select the default Web Interface Program Neighborhood Agent site URL (this only appears if you choose to install the Program Neighborhood Agent component).



7. Choose the default Start menu folder path.

8. Choose to either use the machine name as the client name or specify a new client name.



9. Choose whether to use the local user name and password to log on to Citrix sessions or not.

10. Enable or disable the additional Program Neighborhood connection options.



11. Choose the existing client upgrade options you want to enable.

12. Select which installation prompt or screen you want to hide from users. You can choose to hide all of the dialog boxes if you want to perform a silent installation.



13. Click Next to confirm your selections.

14. The files are decompressed.



15. Click Finish .

Now you can make your customizations to the decompressed MSI package files folder inside the c:\ica32pkb_original



directory (i.e. update the files and/or change the custom .ini file for your own deployment).

To recompress the Presentation Server Client files into a single MSI file:

1. Issue the msiexec /a c:\ica32pkg_original\ica32pkg.msi command for the ica32pkg.msi file from the previously decompressed directory.

2. The Welcome to Client Packager Setup screen appears.

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3. Choose to create a new folder for your final MSI package output directory and select the Single Windows Installer file radio button. Click Next .



4. Accept the license agreement and click Next .

5. Select the Presentation Server Client components you want to install.



6. Select the default Web Interface Program Neighborhood Agent site location.

7. Choose the Start menu folder and click Next .



8. Choose to either use the machine name as the client name or specify a new client name.

9. Choose whether to use the local user name and password to log on to Citrix sessions or not.



10. Enable or disable the additional Program Neighborhood connection options.

11. Choose the existing client upgrade options you want to enable.



12. Select which installation prompt or screen you want to hide from users. You can choose to hide all of the dialog boxes if you want to perform a silent installation.

13. Click Next to confirm your selections and begin the file recompression.



14. The files should begin copying into an MSI file.

15. Click Finish .



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