Some times, you need publish a specific website on your Citrix XenApp farm, but you need avoid to users see toolbars or addressbars, and you don’t want put Internet Explorer on kiosk mode. Then the alternative solution can be publish a .VBS that opens the Internet Explorer as you wish.

First step: Create a .vbs and paste the code below, changing the preferences as you wish.

Set objExplorer = CreateObject(”InternetExplorer.Application”)
WebSite = “http://www.google.co.uk”
objExplorer.Navigate WebSite
objExplorer.AddressBar = 0
objExplorer.Visible = 1
objExplorer.ToolBar = 0
objExplorer.StatusBar = 1

Second step:

Publish the application with the location: wscript “script_path”.

As result, you get a IE window without toolbars, without use kiosk mode.