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I have recently taken over the task of managing the RAS connections of many clients accross Canada. This intails setting up the RAS connection, installing a Citrix program and setting up a Citrix connection.
I have created an '.ins' file that automatically installs the RAS connection. I have software for the Citrix program, that installs fairly automatically. Now I would like to be able to have the Citrix connection be created automatically.
When you create a connection manually, it creates files in:
C:\%windir%\Profiles\\Application Data\ICAClient
I can easily create a batch file that will copy those files to the appropriate location, except for the fact that I do not know how to tell the system what the name of the directory is... (or to use the current user)

I have also been unable to have the 'ins' file for the RAS install from a batch file.

What I would like to be able to do is:
1) Have one batch file that installs the RAS by using the '.ins' file.
2) Have it then automatically run the setup.exe that installs the Citrix program.
3) Copy the files for the citrix connection to the appropriate directory (and create the directory if necessary)
4) Install any necessary registry keys/values.

Any help is appreciated!

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by parkin_thom

I have been in a similar situation many times.
Your list of required tasks has grown to a point where BATCH language will probably not help.
(Although, you should check out my site http://parkint.home.mindspring.com/thomware for some utilities I have created to get out of such situations)
I would suggest you write a simple application (in your language of choice; VB, Delphi, C++, etc) that will accomplish each of these tasks. In that way, you also can prompt the user for information such as or build it in to a configuration file.

THOM
twice21.com

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