Allow USB Device RedirectionĬonfigure a Citrix user policy to allow USB device redirection by setting ICA -> USB Devices -> Client USB device redirection to allowed. The following chapters elaborate on these points.

The Windows Smart Card service needs to be started.Smart card hooks may have to be removed on the virtual desktop.The USB redirection module must be enabled on the end user device (applies to some Linux thin clients).A redirection rule for the device type smart card on the end user device.A redirection rule for the device type smart card via Citrix policies.To auto-map smart card readers like the Reiner SCT or Omnikey devices into virtual desktops we need: We are going to get to that magic, but we have got a bit of configuring to do first. Smart card readers are USB devices, so the only thing you have to do is plug them into the thin or fat client sitting on your desk and Citrix XenDesktop auto-magically makes them appear in your virtual desktop, right? Wrong. To save you the pain of having to start from scratch here is my description of how to do it.

Given that this is such a basic requirement it is astonishingly hard to implement correctly. Even if you only have a moderately sized VDI deployment chances are high you will face the problem of getting USB smart card readers to work on the virtual desktops.

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