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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

Overview of this book

XenApp is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.XenApp 6.5 brings with it exciting new features such as a brand new management console, Instant App access, Multi-stream ICA, Single Sign-on and SmartAuditor enhancements, and more.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6.5. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 starts by introducing the basics and new features of the brand new version such as installing servers and configuring components, and then teaches you how to publish applications and resources on the client device before moving on to configuring content redirection. Author Guillermo Musumeci includes a use case throughout the book to explain advanced topics like creating management scripts and deploying and optimizing XenApp for Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It will guide you through an unattended installation of XenApp and components on physical servers. By the end of this book you will have enough knowledge to successfully design and manage your own XenApp 6.5 Farms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing XenApp sessions


Administrators and help desk specialists interact with sessions by resetting, disconnecting, logging off sessions, shadowing, or sending messages to users.

Detailed information to provide permissions to manage sessions on Citrix AppCenter Console (or Citrix Delivery Services Console in XenApp 6.0) is provided in the section Managing Citrix Administrators in Chapter 5, Using Management Tools.

Disconnecting, resetting, and logging off sessions

William can log off users or reset a user's active or disconnected session.

Resetting a session terminates all processes that are running in that session. He can reset a session to remove the remaining processes in the case of a session error or sometimes because users left the sessions open. However, resetting a session can cause applications to close without saving data.

When he resets a disconnected session, the Session State shows Down. When he refreshes the console or when the next automatic refresh occurs, the session no longer...