In this document we will see something super useful for all those who have a Citrix XenApp or Citrix XenDesktop environment, and it's nothing more than the possibility of showing a small message to our users from the StoreFront. Ideal for when we want to remind them of something, that if there is a maintenance stop, if it's the sysadmin's birthday… whatever!

We are based on a small app generated by the guru Kevin McLeman, that we can download from here or directly modify the code we need, explains it here also, since it is obviously not supported by Citrix. Following these simple steps, in less than 5 In a few minutes you can try leaving a message on your site!

In this document we will see how to use the app that after downloading and unzipping it does not have much mystery =) The first thing will be to run a PowerShell script indicating what our name of the web store is, make a modification to the receiver.html file, We will only do this once. Run:

[SourceCode].\SF_Messaging.ps1 -StoreWebName "NOMBRE_ALMACEN_WEB"[/SourceCode]

And we will be able to open the application “StoreFront messaging”, the first thing to do is to click on 'Open Style.css’ and we'll search for our CSS file on the site (for example in C:\inetpubwwwrootCitrixStoreWebcustomstyle.css) and customize the message as we want, we put the text we want them to see, a background color, A color for the text, the size of the banner and the size of the text, and whether or not we want to enable the message, easy, No? Well, try e “Apply” and worth it!

This would be an example of how it would look! A small banner or message above in our Citrix StoreFront, that users will see at all times, We can use it for whatever each one considers appropriate, I hope you found it interesting!