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Troubleshooting Citrix Xendesktop

By : Gurpinder Singh
Book Image

Troubleshooting Citrix Xendesktop

By: Gurpinder Singh

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Troubleshooting Citrix XenDesktop
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

HDX™ policies and their impact on user experience


There is a long list of Citrix HDX graphics policies; sometimes it becomes very difficult to understand which one should be configured to provide an optimal user experience.

So, we will be going through all the relevant and important HDX policies that every administrator must be aware of to configure.

Desktop Composition graphics quality

The Desktop Composition graphics quality policy helps us define the quality of graphics for Desktop Composition Redirection.

There are four settings that can be used to set the graphics quality; High, Medium, Low, or Lossless, as shown in the following screenshot:

Desktop Composition Redirection

The Desktop Composition Redirection policy allows us to redirect the desktop composition from VDA to the endpoint device to provide an enriched user experience.

Note

The Desktop Composition feature was introduced with Windows Vista and it actually changed the way applications display pixels to form an image on the screen...