Citrix StoreFront Customization

Citrix StoreFront Receiver Web Customization and Branding

Citrix StoreFront is an enterprise app store that improves security and simplifies deployments, delivering a modern, unmatched near-native user experience across Citrix Receiver on any platform. StoreFront makes it easy to manage multi-site and multi-version Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenApp and XenDesktop) environments. StoreFront Receiver Web interface is just a replacement of XenApp Web Interface which keeps on upgrading with lot new features. The most important feature of StoreFront Receiver Web is HTML5 support which makes the users to experience the Remote Apps/Desktops without any clients/plug-ins installed on the client system. Basically a browser based zero client utility for the most popular browsers that support HTML5 technology.

Dart Innovations can offer full-fledged branding over the Citrix StoreFront Receiver Web Interface. Although StoreFront management console provides some basic customization it is not easier to match your web identity where Dart Innovations come in to help you. We can just not work with colors or logo where we can totally rearrange and redesign the each interface elements based on your preference. We can help you all the way to make it personalized with your company’s brand elements. Our Custom Branding applies to Login, After Login Pages, Favorites, Categories, Featured App Groups gallery and everything with the StoreFront 3.x or higher version of Receiver Web Interface. And our advanced customization solution can help you bring in some useful features such as announcements, links, OWA integration, Twitter integration and more which are listed below.

Look on our Customized StoreFront 1912 Receiver Web Interface demo to get an idea of what we can do for you.

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We can do our branding as well as our custom features on all Citrix Web Interfaces that starts from Citrix Web Interface 4.0, till Citrix StoreFront 1909 the latest Web interfaces. All our Custom Citrix Interfaces are responsive to all browser/device screens.

The list below is some of our custom features you can think of accommodating with your custom branded StoreFront Receiver Web Interface

Announcements

This feature lets you post all your important messages, news and announcements on both login and after login pages of your Custom StoreFront interface. You can manage these short messages from the IAdmin backend using options like post, edit, delete, activate and deactivate. It is possible that you can post announcements on AD group based or OU based.

Web Links

This utility allows you to present your important links, resources on both login and after login pages. The IAdmin interface allows you to post, edit, delete, activate and deactivate the links. This can be called as company links, web links, bookmarks or useful resources. This can be managed on group or OU based.

Forgot Password for users

This option is placed on the Custom Citrix StoreFront login page which helps user to reset password and recover their password by self when they have forgot their original password. It works in the similar fashion of how most Forgot Password reset flow works in web.

Forgot Username

Similar to Forgot Password this option helps to recover the username itself for users who forgot their username of Citrix StoreFront /Active directory. This can be validated against their AD email address or phone number. User receives their username in email on completion of successful validation.

Password Reset - Admin

This is an IAdmin backend module which allows administrator to reset a user password and send the new password via email. The module clearly validates against your AD password policy and allows you reset the password of a user in a single step. The feature saves lot time by avoiding the need of logging into Active Directory system.

Create Active Directory users - Admin

This is an IAdmin module that lets your administrators to create your active directory users from the web interface itself. You can create users with all user information such as company, email, title, phone and others. You can assign them to specific OU and groups as well. Once created user will be receiving an email with username and randomly generated password.

Social widgets integration

You can integrate your Twitter feed or Facebook widget into your Citrix StoreFront pages. The widget settings can be managed via IAdmin backend.

RSS widget

The tiny widget allows you to show a RSS news feed on your Custom StoreFront login page and/or after login page. The RSS feed URL can be simply managed from the IAdmin backend module.

Active Directory information

An information utility that displays the logged in user information pulled from Active Directory. Last logged in time, Email id, Phone, Title, Department and Company are some useful information to display on the page. you can also display any other user information from Active Directory.

OWA Integration

This enables single sign on facility to login to OWA (Email) from your Citrix StoreFront web interface. User doesn’t need to sign in again at OWA login when they are already signed in at Citrix StoreFront receiver web interface. We can also integrate SSO for any other email system.

Documents

Administrators can upload the documents on AD group based which will be available to users for download or read. It can be PDF, MS Word, text files or anything else. Admin can Add, Edit, Delete and Sort the documents order at any time. This useful feature lets you share your documents like training materials, user guides, reports, company handbooks or other manuals among your users in a group based manner.

Downloads

The feature allows you to provide dowloadable tools inside the Citrix StoreFront Receiver Web interface. That may be corporate tools, utilities, software patches or desktop clients. You can upload any format of applications, executable files, compressed zip files or any other formats from the IAdmin module and distribute them to your uses in a group based manner.

Videos Module

You can place number of videos into the Citrix StoreFront interface and show them on AD user/group based. It is very useful when you want to place your training videos or other information videos to your staffs/users. You can integrate youtube, vimeo or other video streaming platforms and all of them can be managed from the IAdmin backend using the options such as Add, Edit, Delete and Sort.

IAdmin (Interface Admin Management Module)

IAdmin is a free module ships with your custom interface package which runs as a separate website. It helps you to manage all your custom features. Example, you can add, edit, delete and sort your announcements or web links using this module. The features like Password Reset By Admin, Create AD Users are IAdmin specific modules. You can also manage email templates that sent during the password reset or user creation from the IAdmin mdoule. We can also add any additional CMS modules such as Manage logos, Manage Promo Banners, or Manage Branding Elements (that let’s you manage your custom logo, background image) or anything you need upon your specific request. The IAdmin has an option called Web Encrypt/Decrypt which provides additional security by allowing you to encrypt your SQL/LDAP connection strings in your web config file.

As a company that works from Citrix Web Interface 4.0 (Meta Frame Versions) we have deep understanding over the Citrix Frame works hence we bed to provide any type of solutions over Citrix’s Web Interface products.

We can also offer a full CMS that can enable you to do multi-branding on OU based if you are a company offering your hosted solution for multiple clients. Using this full featured CMS you can do special branding specific to each of your clients using some simple clicks.