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How To Use Hot-Pluggable Client USB Storage Devices With Citrix Presentation Server

Friday, 16 February 2007 by Michel Roth

Another one of my esteemed colleagues, Mr. Dennis Damen has finally found a good way to work around one of the limitations of the ICA protocol, which I know he was frustrated by. Dennis has devices a way on how you can make USB storage devices visible in your Citrix session, after you have logged in. Brian Madden has published this article on his website. Definitely worth the read!

"A lot of people have been complaining about USB disk support in Citrix Presentation Server. When a user connects a USB drive while working in a Citrix ICA session, the drive will not become visible in that session. While Microsoft has already added support for this in their RDP protocol, Citrix lags behind on implementing this in ICA.

While researching the possibilities of adding support for this �hot plugging� myself, I stumbled upon a great tool called �USBDLM� written by Uwe Sieber. By default, Windows allocates the first available drive letter to an inserted USB storage device which makes management of this device somewhat troublesome. USBDLM installs as a service on a Win32 client and enables YOU, the administrator, to predefine where and how USB disks are made available to your operating system using a simple ini-file."

Check it out!