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The GPO actually worked perfectly for what I needed.
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The GPO actually worked perfectly for what I needed.

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Recently a new Citrix enviromnment was put in place. The server are Windows server 2016 .<br />
When users login and try to access a website link for example: <a href="http://www.google.com" rel="ugc">http://www.google.com</a>&nbsp;they are prompted &quot;How do you want to open this website? but they have no choices. ( I =attached a screen shot of this prompt )<br />
Basically they have no default web browser configured.<br />
Also I then went to control panel and chose IE11 as the default browser, then everything works until the user logs off and then logs back in again.<br />
How can I get this setting to stick ? <br />
It doesn't work for Admins either<br />
No other Browsers have been installed on the server.<br />
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Recently a new Citrix enviromnment was put in place. The server are Windows server 2016 .
When users login and try to access a website link for example: http://www.google.com they are prompted "How do you want to open this website? but they have no choices. ( I =attached a screen shot of this prompt )
Basically they have no default web browser configured.
Also I then went to control panel and chose IE11 as the default browser, then everything works until the user logs off and then logs back in again.
How can I get this setting to stick ? 
It doesn't work for Admins either
No other Browsers have been installed on the server.

Setting Default browser in 2016 in Citrix environment

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