This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only.
 
Non-admin users must contact their company’s Help Desk/IT support team and can refer to CTX297149 for more information.



This article describes how to disable file transfer using Receiver for HTML5 and Receiver for Chrome.

Background

Receiver for HTML5 and Receiver for Chrome provides secure file transfer between a user device and virtual XenDesktop sessions. This feature uses a file transfer virtual channel instead of client drive mapping.
By default, users can:

• Upload files from a local folder or attached peripheral to their XenDesktop session and seamlessly access the data from their XenDesktop sessions.

• Download files from their XenDesktop sessions to a folder or peripheral on their user device.

Requirements

• XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 LTSR1 or above

Instructions

Using File Redirection policy

File transfer could be disabled using the Citrix Studio policy as mentioned below:

Using Registry

Alternatively file transfer can also be disabled by creating the following registry key on VDA(Virtual Desktop Agent):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\GroupPolicy\Defaults\IO]
“AllowFileTransfer”=dword:00000000