Use PowerShell to Find Citrix ICA Client Versions In Use On a XenApp 6 Farm
In many Citrix environments it’s common to have a large variety of ICA client versions. One thing that sometimes surprises users and IT folks alike is how much of a performance increase can be seen after upgrading an old ICA client. But how do you know which clients need upgrading?
One of the biggest challenges has been deciphering what ICA client version the cryptic “client build number” in a user’s session information translates to. Well thanks to the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK and Get-XASession, we can easily find Citrix ICA client version information in a snap with the following script (download the script here):
1#################################################
2# XenApp 6 Client Version Retrieval Script
3# Created by Ben Piper
4# http://benpiper.com, ben@benpiper.com
5#################################################
6
7function convertToVersion($build) {
8 switch($build){
9 6685 {"13.0"; break}30 {"12.1"; break}6 {"12.0.3"; break}6410 {"12.0"; break}142{"Java"; break}317{"3.0"; break}324{"3.0"; break}330{"3.0"; break}349{"3.0"; break}304{"MAC 6.3"; break}314{"MAC 6.3"; break}323{"MAC 6.3"; break}326{"MAC 6.3"; break}400{"MAC 7.0"; break}402{"MAC 7.0"; break}405{"MAC 7.0"; break}406{"MAC 7.0"; break}407{"MAC 7.0"; break}402{"MAC 7.0"; break}411{"MAC 7.0"; break}500{"MAC 7.1"; break}600{"MAC 10.0"; break}601{"MAC 10.0"; break}581{"4.0"; break}606{"4.0"; break}609{"4.0"; break}614{"4.0"; break}686{"4.0"; break}715{"4.2"; break}727{"4.2"; break}741{"4.2"; break}779{"4.21"; break}730{"wyse1200le"; break}910{"6.0"; break}931{"6.0"; break}961{"6.01"; break}963{"6.01"; break}964{"6.01"; break}967{"6.01"; break}985{"6.2"; break}986{"6.2"; break}1041{"7.0"; break}1050{"6.3"; break}1051{"6.31"; break}1414{"Java 7.0"; break}1679{"Java 8.1"; break}1868{"Java 9.4"; break}1876{"Java 9.5"; break}2600{"RDP 5.01"; break}2650{"10.2"; break}3790{"RDP 5.2"; break}6000{"RDP 6.0"; break}2650{"10.2"; break}5284{"11.0"; break}5323{"11.0"; break}5357{"11.0"; break}6001{"RDP 6.0"; break}8292{"10.25"; break}10359{"10.13"; break}128b1{"MAC 10.0"; break}12221{"Linux 10.x"; break}13126{"Solaris 7.0"; break}17106{"7.0"; break}17534{"7.0"; break}20497{"7.01"; break}21825{"7.10"; break}21845{"7.1"; break}22650{"7.1"; break}24737{"8.0"; break}26449{"8.0"; break}26862{"8.01"; break}28519{"8.05"; break}29670{"8.1"; break}30817{"8.26"; break}31327{"9.0"; break}31560{"11.2"; break}32649{"9.0"; break}32891{"9.0"; break}34290{"8.4"; break}35078{"9.0"; break}36280{"9.1"; break}36824{"9.02 WinCE"; break}37358{"9.04"; break}39151{"9.15"; break}44236{"9.15 WinCE"; break}44367{"9.2"; break}44376{"9.2"; break}44467{"Linux 10.0"; break}45418{"10.0"; break}46192{"9.18 WinCE"; break}49686{"10.0"; break}50123{"Linux 10.6"; break}50211{"9.230"; break}52110{"10.0"; break}52504{"9.2"; break}53063{"9.237"; break}55362{"10.08"; break}55836{"10.1"; break}58643{"10.15"; break}
10 default {$build; break}
11 }
12}
13
14$clientUsage = @()
15foreach($session in Get-XASession -full | where {$_.state -eq "Active" -and $_.protocol -eq "Ica"}) {
16 $clientUsage += new-object psobject -Property @{
17 User = $session.accountname
18 Workstation = $session.clientname
19 Client = convertToVersion($session.clientbuildnumber)
20 }
21}
22
23$clientUsage | sort-object -Property Workstation | get-unique -asstring
The script makes use of build-to-version information gleaned from Nick Holmquist’s ICA Client Build List and the Citrix Client Build List thread on Citrix Forums (Thanks!). The convertToVersion function uses the PowerShell switch command to identify and then return the ICA client version based on the build number. If the key-value pair is not in the list, the build number is returned. All ICA client versions in the list have at least one decimal place to make it easy to distinguish build numbers from client versions.