Citrix policies are defined in Citrix Studio. They are processed through Group Policy extensions and are applied as part of the Windows policy engine, as noted in the Policy processing order screenshot. These Citrix policy settings are also available as Group Policy templates (ADMX files), which can be imported and configured through Active Directory Group Policy Management Console, if required (we will discuss more on Group Policies later in this chapter). Within Citrix Studio, you can create and modify Citrix policies as well as leverage policy templates.

The policy configuration inside Citrix Studio

Understanding the role of the Citrix policy engine

Citrix policies are processed and applied after the local machine policies but before the Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO) are processed. This means that if there is a conflict between a Citrix-defined policy and a GPO, the GPO will override the Citrix Policy.

The policy processing order

Since you can define...