#keyboardredirection

Issue In some Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (former XenApp/XenDesktop) environment, every time a Citrix VDA server is rebooted or even at random times the keyboard layouts appearing inside the Citrix session change. This is because Citrix Workspace App client is making use of the keyboard layouts defined in the Citrix VDA server on top of the keyboard layouts defined in the local machine. In cases where users are making use of non-US keyboards this can be disturbing and will need to be fixed. Resolution The above issue can be resolved by configuring the Citrix server and workspace app client to only redirect the local keyboard layouts and ignore the Citrix VDA server keyboard layouts. This can accomplished by following the steps below. Bear in mind that this article is primarily focused on users running Citrix Workspace App client in a supported Windows local machine. If the end user is running a non-Windows version of Citrix Workspace App (former Receiver) they will probably need to take extra configuration steps. For more details, refer to the Sources section of this article. The below configuration changes must be made to allow local client keyboard layout redirection to a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops session. Citrix VDA server configuration The following registry keys must be configured (can be done via GPO for all VDA servers). Read the full article