Connect To XenDesktop

This activity establishes a connection to XenDesktop.

Activity Parameters

The Connect to XenDesktop activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

• Logon Provider (combo box control) (type: string): choose from the drop down list the logon provider. Flowster Studio provides the following options:
  • Default: Use the standard logon provider for the system. The default security provider is negotiate, unless you pass NULL for the domain name and the user name is not in UPN format. In this case the default provider is NTLM.
  • WinNT50: Use the negotiate logon provider. This value is not support for Windows NT 4 or earlier.
  • WinNT40: Use the NTLM logon provider
  • WinNT35: Use the Windows NT 3.5 logon provider
• Logon Type (combo box control) (type: string): choose from the drop down list the type of logon operation to perform.
  • Interactive: used for a logon at the console of a computer. An Interactive logon is logged when it is attempted to log on at a Windows computer’s local keyboard and screen
  • Network: occurs when there are accessed remote file shares or printers. Also, most logons to Internet Information Services (IIS) are classified as network logons, other than IIS logons that use the basic authentication protocol (those are logged as logon type Network Clear Text)
  • Batch: used for scheduled tasks. When the Windows Scheduler service starts a scheduled task, it first creates a new logon session for the task, so that it can run in the security context of the account that was specified when the task was created
  • Service: used for services and service accounts that log on to start a service. When a service starts, Windows first creates a logon session for the user account that is specified in the service configuration
  • Unlock: used whenever a Windows machine is unlocked
  • Network Clear Text: used when log on over a network and the password is sent in clear text. This happens, for example, when basic authentication is used to authenticate to an IIS server
  • New Credentials: used when running an application using the RunAs command and specify the /netonly switch. When you start a program with RunAs using /netonly, the program starts in a new logon session that has the same local identity (this is the identity of the currently logged on user), but uses different credentials (the ones specified in the runas command) for other network connections. Without /netonly, Windows runs the program on the local computer and on the network as the user specified in the runas command, and logs the logon event with type Interactive
• Password (password editor type) (type: string): the password for the provided username.
• Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the connection. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encripted password from outside the task, for example Flowster Portal).
   
• Server (text box editor type) (type: string): the IP of the Citrix XenDesktop controller.
• Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the username of the Citrix XenDesktop Server. The accepted format is domain\username.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

• Connection (type: object): outputs a Citrix XenDesktop Connection. This parameter should be used as input for all Connection parameters used for activities placed under Citrix XenDesktop category.

Disconnect from XenDesktop

This activity disconnects from XenDesktop.

Activity Parameters

The Disconnect from XenDesktop activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

All of the input parameters are mandatory.

Parameters:

• Connection (text box editor type) (type: string): the Connection object - bind to the output of a XenDesktopConnect activity.