Citrix StoreFront was designed and built from the ground up using HTML5. One of the biggest complaints of Web Interface was the lack of support for the multiple development platforms used as the program was enhanced over the years. By starting fresh with StoreFront, Citrix was able to use a single platform. StoreFront was first released for production with Version 1.2 in July, 2012. Version 2.0 of StoreFront was released to coincide with XenDesktop 7, and it features many improvements over the first-generation production. The latest version, StoreFront 2.5, is part of the XenApp 7.5 release and supports all the latest features.

Although some customers liked the first version of StoreFront, most were not thrilled with some aspects of the architecture. However, the adoption rate quickly rose with StoreFront 2.0, and most new implementations are now using StoreFront. For this chapter, we will focus on StoreFront 2.5.

StoreFront provides the most consistent user experience...