Smart Access in Citrix XenApp/XenDeskop 7

Smart Access is a useful Citrix feature which allows you to set specific Citrix policies depending on where the user is accessing from. For example a common use of Smart Access is to disable drive mapping for users connecting from the Internet (via a NetScaler gateway).

Two important things to note:
1) The XML broker which the StoreFront server is using must be set to trust XML requests.
2) In the policy filter, the "NetScaler Gateway farm name" = the name of the NetScaler Gateway vServer which is configured in the NetScaler Configuration manager.

In the screenshot above, the NetScaler Gateway farm name is "XD2". This is the name of the NetScaler Gateway vServer as can be seen below:

To Trust XML Requests on the Controller:

Set-BrokerSite -TrustRequestsSentToTheXmlServicePort $true

With these configured the Smart Access policies should apply successfully.