One is major blackhole effect when shifts change. All of the logon script processing, printer mapping, and process initialization is brutal on the Citrix server front. Everyone knows that one of the biggest hits to a Terminal Server environment is session initialization. So if this is really an issue, then they would need to buy 4500 more licenses.ī) Server capacity.
At the client site I’m at right now, they have about 1500 ccus of PS4.5e, but a pool of about 6k total users. Unless Citrix has developed a way of not actually counting these “auto-launch sessions” you’ll need to have enough licensing to accomodate every single user that has this utility deployed.
This has implications in a few different areas:Ī) Licensing. For external users, you probably don’t want sessions auto-launching in the background for security reasons.Ģ) What this utility is actually doing is automatically invoking an ICA session on a Presentation Server oops I mean XenApp server. For most people with internal corporate desktops, this would be pretty easy through their existing ESD and/or Group Policy. That means there needs to be some type of out of band management mechanism of getting it there. If you’re using PNA, you could use the Citrix infrastructure and PNAgent to place the shortcut into the Start Menu, but you’d still need to stage the utility onto the machine. If you’re using PN/Web client you’re a bit SOL since you’d need some type of ESD or script solution for pushing the shortcut in their start menu. If the user didn’t have any apps running, they would just see their desktop.Ĥ) Upon launching their next Citrix application, it would immediately appear via the magic of session sharing.ġ) First of all, since this is a utility that runs in the startup menu of the client system, you’ve got to have some way to get it there. If the user had existing disconnected apps on that server, the apps would immediately show.
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I’m certainly encouraging any/all corrections/clarifications to these assumptions.įirst an overview of my understanding of the utility:ġ) Windows boots up and the user logs in.Ģ) There’s a Start Menu startup folder shortcut that links to this utility written by the Citrix IT guys.ģ) The executable starts up and initializes a connection to a Citrix server. That being said, let me state some assumptions about how I *think* this thing is working and some potential shortcomings of it. Now before I comment on this, let me first state that I have no inside knowledge of how this thing was developed, nor am I an expert at the inner workings of it. It won’t be an “official” Citrix product. One thing to know up front about this utility is that it will be released to the web as an unsupported utility on CDN. Gus also did a follow up interview with the creators of the utility here. You can see a “veedio” of this in action here. Gus Pinto has blogged recently about a utility developed by the internal IT organization at Citrix that was used to assist in minimizing the amount of time required to get people into their Citrix apps.
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