How to turn off the Office 2013 Shadow Border on Citrix XenApp

Set the following registry

To remove the shadow around office 2013 Suite in a Citrix Xenapp Environment.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI\MSO_BORDEREFFECT_WINDOW_CLASS]
“ClassName”=”MSO_BORDEREFFECT_WINDOW_CLASS”
“Type”=dword:00001000

This registry will remove the border around the office suite

Border

Citrix Receiver 4.4 Configuration for SSO and PNA

This configuration will give you PNA Style Configuration

Client PC

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Citrix\Dazzle]
“UseDifferentPathsforStartmenuAndDesktop”=”true”
“EnablePreLaunch”=”true”
“AllowAddStore”=”A” *
“RemoveAppsOnLogOff”=”true”
“RemoveAppsOnExit”=”true”
“ReuseStubs”=”true”
“WSCReconnectMode”=”0”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\AuthManager]
“ConnectionSecurityMode”=”any” *

*Only required if your using http as a web store address

GPO Configuration

The adm file can be found here at

C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\ICA Client\Configuration

receiver.adml
receiver.admx

Place the adml and admx accordingly below.

File Type Domain Controller File Location
ADMX language neutral (.admx) %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions
ADMX language specific (.adml) %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions\[MUIculture] (for example, the U.S. English ADMX language-specific file will be stored in %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions\en-us)

Once done setup as below

GPO.png

 

Ensure the web interface as Domain-Pass through setup as below

Passthrough.png

Ensure the address is added to either Trusted Site or intranet and ensure the security setting is set as below

Security Setting

Citrix or Terminal Server File and Folder Exclusions

I recommend that every administrator optimize their profile to either both Terminal Server or Citrix. Below are the list of exclusions i use.

Please note Under the File System\Synchronization node in the Group Policy Editor you can configure which profile folders should be synchronized that have otherwise been excluded.

The exclusions with ! are built-in variables.

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