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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

Maintaining session activity


Users can lose network connectivity for various reasons, including unreliable networks, and change of wireless network for mobile users. We can increase the reliability of sessions and reduce the amount of inconvenience, downtime, and loss of productivity using the following features:

  • Session Reliability

  • Auto Client Reconnect

  • ICA Keep-Alive

Configuring Session Reliability

When we enable Session Reliability, any temporary disconnection from the network keeps the session active, allowing users to remain connected but with the screen frozen and the cursor changed to the hourglass; it will continue to queue keyboard input until network connectivity resumes or the timeout is reached.

This feature was originally designed to help users connected to their application sessions on low bandwidth conditions, such as remote locations, but now this feature is especially useful for mobile users with wireless connections.

For example, one Brick Unit project manager with a wireless...