If you have users that have a Apple Mac OSX device such as (iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro) then this article might be interesting for you. I am helping many clients around the world and I often see more companies adapting Apple OSX devices. Specially SMB and Enterprises are adapting Apple Macbook products these days cause they are powerfull computers and have some of the best design and reliability. Many companies have no other option to adapt Apple OSX devices, so they attract the right talented employee, which are requesting this device if they want to work at the company, and you think this is funny then welcome to reality, Apple is back and more powerful than before. The good news is that Citrix can help with this and bring any app to work on these devices and secure the workspace with the Citrix Receiver where the user connect to a central and secure solution. The challenge comes when the user have local printers to their mac device and now tell IT they want to print from their Citrix session.

In latest release of Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp 7.6 if your users on Mac OSX devices, wants to use local printers and then connect to their remote Citrix VDI (Windows 8/8.1) or XenApp (Server 2012/2012R2) and then print, this is not going to work. Before this article got released users would only be able to get local printing working to a Windows 7 VDI or a XenApp server running Server 2008R2.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Mac Client Printer Mapping Fix for Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6- Poppelgaard – blog about Citrix (Mobility, Security and Cloud)

Watch the video tutuorial on how to install the Citrix ICA Web Client on a Mac OS desktop.

• Hi, I have problem with printing on MAC OS client, citrix viewer can not be able list the local MAC printer in citrix session. Our citrix environment includes Xenapp 7.6 delivery controller, citrix storefront and citrix access gateway.
• In latest release of Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp 7.6 if your users on Mac OSX devices, wants to use local printers and then connect to their remote Citrix VDI (Windows 8/8.1) or XenApp (Server 2012.

Citrix has offered client software for the Mac platform for over a decade. And people have been complaining about Citrix's Mac client for just about as long. It has always been clear that the Mac was not the primary focus for Citrix, and given Mac's historic market share, who can blame it?

But the popularity of the Mac has exploded in recent years, and lots of companies --Citrix included -- have redoubled their efforts for the Mac.

To that end, Citrix has just released the latest version of its client software, now called 'Citrix Receiver,' for the Mac. This latest version was originally released way back in March and provides a 'near-native' Mac experience (well, to the extent that a Windows app can feel native running on a Mac). The Receiver for Mac even integrates with the application folder, the dock and the Spotlight-based app launcher.

Of course, Mac fans know that Apple is continuing to lead the way when it comes to app distribution with the addition of the Mac App Store in the latest version of Mac OS X. (Am I showing my bias?) The Mac App Store is very similar to the iTunes App store, which has apps for iPhones and iPads, except the Mac App Store has full-blown desktop apps that run on Mac OS X.

A few weeks ago, Citrix announced that Apple has accepted the Citrix Receiver into the Mac App Store. The basic client software hasn't changed too much; it's just that users can now find it by typing 'Citrix' into the App Store search box instead of having to navigate to Citrix.com --> downloads --> Mac, etc…

Of course, the Citrix Receiver doesn't actually do anything without a back-end Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop system to connect it to. So Citrix has also released a simple Web page that allows administrators to create one-click configuration URLs for Mac Receiver users. So instead of requiring users to go through all the options to specify their store location, Access Gateway address, domain login type, etc., users can just click on the generated URL to launch and add the connection automatically.

Install Citrix Receiver Client For Mac

At the end of the day, we all know that enterprises are still focused on Windows. But by addressing the Mac community, whether for home workers or 'bring your own PC' (BYOPC) scenarios, Citrix is making sure it's as easy as possible for everyone to get its apps -- and, it hopes, for as many people to want to use Citrix as possible.

Citrix On Mac

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