| The ICA Win32 Program Neighborhood Agent allows you to seamlessly add published application content directly to the users local desktop. With the Program Neighborhood Agent, users can access remote applications by clicking icons on the Windows desktop, in the Start menu, in the Windows system tray, or a combination of these. The Program Neighborhood Agent operates in the background. It has no user interface, except for a shortcut menu in the system tray. Therefore, working with remote applications has the look and feel of working with local applications. The default properties for all Program Neighborhood Agents on your network are controlled by a single, editable configuration file called Config.xml and it can be managed through a web interface administration tool (http://web_interface_webserver/citrix/pnagentadmin/) or manually. This file is placed on the Web Interface 2.1 server during Web Interface 2.1 installation. You can dynamically manage and control the clients on your network. For example, you can edit the PN Admin Web Console to prevent users from editing certain settings and the changes are automatically configured on the local client device. 
The Program Neighborhood Agent communicates with the Web Interface 2.1 web server over HTTP or HTTPS protocols, which makes it easy to pass through firewalls using port 80 or 443. The PN Agent client can be deployed both automatically and manually. If you will be using the PN Agent exclusively then you can set Web Interface 2.1 to automatically push the Program Neighborhood Agent client by editing the NFuse.conf file as defined below. 1. Open the NFuse.conf file, by default located in the c:\Program Files\Citrix\NFuse\Conf folder. 2. Edit the Win32Client parameter and change the ica32.exe to ica32a.msi. For example: Win32Client=Click here for the Client&/Citrix/ICAWEB/en/ica32/ica32a.msi 3. Click Start click Run type: IISRESET and click OK.
The following defines how to manually install the Program Neighborhood Agent on a local workstation. 1. Download the Program Neighborhood Agent Client from http://www.citrix.com/download. When finished run the downloaded ICA32a.MSI file and click Next to start the installation. 
2. Click to select the I accept the license agreement radio button and click Next. 
3. Click Next to accept the default ICA client location. 
4. Enter the server address of an Web Interface-enabled web server. You can use http: or https:. If you have followed my recommendations and installed CSG and have secured the Web Interface web server with an SSL certificate then enter https://nfuse_enabled_webserver and click Next with finished. 
5. Click Next to accept the default program folder name. 
6. You can enable the PN Agent to user the machine name as the ICA Client name by checking the Use machine name as client name checkbox. If you would like to define a static ICA Client name then uncheck the Use machine name as client name checkbox and enter a unique name in the client name in the ClientName text box. Click Next when finished. 
7. The next screen asks if you would like to enable Single Sign-On. If you are installing the PN Agent of a workstation that you will be logging on to with the same username and password as the Citrix users account then click Yes, othewise click No. Click Next with finished. 
8. Click Next to install the Program Neighborhood Agent. 
9. Click Finish You have now successfully installed the Program Neighborhood Agent and are ready to take advantage of seamlessly adding published applications to the end-users desktop, programs group and or system tray not, to mention client to server content redirection.
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