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ICA connections using PowerShell – Part 4

Floris 14 Comments

It has been a while since I last posted something here. And in my previous post in the ICA-PowerShell series, I mentioned doing another post about simulating keyboard and mouse. To sum up, part 1 was about the ICO Object basics, part 2 was about controlling the ICA session appearance and in part 3 I talked about using the ICO Object’s events.

Enabling Simulation API

The ability to control the mouse and keyboard in an ICA session is not enabled by default. For this to work, you will need to enable the Simulation API. This is done by adding a registry key to the machine you will be using:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Citrix\ICA Client\CCM]
"AllowSimulationAPI"=dword:00000001

The “CCM” subkey doesn’t exist by default, so you should create it. If you’re using a 32bit platform for testing, the registry key should look like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ICA Client\CCM]
"AllowSimulationAPI"=dword:00000001

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ICA connections using Powershell – Part 3

Floris 13 Comments

In part 1 of this series, I talked about the basics. Part 2 was about the overall session appearance. This part will be about using the events which are available in the ICO SDK. The ICO SDK has a lot of events we can use, but we will be talking about a few so that you get a basic idea on how to use them.

Available Events

First of all, let’s start with the code we use to view all events in the ICAClientClass. We already had the following code:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\ICA Client\WfIcaLib.dll")
$ICA = New-Object WFICALib.ICAClientClass
$ICA.Address = "XASRV001"
$ICA.Username = "TestUser01"
$ICA.SetProp("Password","MyUsersPassword")
$ICA.Domain = "LAB"
$ICA.Application = ""
$ICA.Launch = $true
$ICA.OutputMode = [WFICALib.OutputMode]::OutputModeNormal
$ICA.DesiredHRes = 1024
$ICA.DesiredVRes = 768
$ICA.DesiredColor = [WFICALib.ICAColorDepth]::Color16bit
$ICA.Connect()

This will connect an ICA session. To view all event available, we can use the following code:

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