Administrator Guide

Provision the Citrix VDI Clone Pool

This section describes how to provision a VDI Clone Pool in a Citrix environment.

External Media Shield

To use External Media Shield, congure USB redirection not to use the network share model. In Citrix Studio, enable the USB Redirection

policy or add to the existing policy.

NOTE:

This policy must be enabled for External Media Shield for encryption of removable media to work.

When Thin Client USB devices are connected to a VDI clone as a network share, External Media Shield cannot protect the redirected USB

device, because the External Media Shield drivers will ignore network shares. Citrix provides this alternative method of USB redirection,

using the USB Redirection policy, that does not use the network share model. This is also discussed in the document, Dell Data Protection |

Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise for Citrix.

Activation

To allow activations, run the WSDeactivate tool on all VDI Virtual Machines after the VDI clone pool is deployed but before inital user login.

This resolves an interoperability issue between the Virtual Delivery Agent and the Encryption client's vault that blocks encryption

activations. The exact cause of the interoperability issue is being investigated.

If desired, use a login script to automate the WSDeactivate process.

IMPORTANT

You must run the WSDeactivate tool each time the VDI clone pool is rebuilt, before initial user login.

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Provision the Citrix VDI Clone Pool