A new feature, regardless of how stunning or life changing it may be, is only useful if you can put it into practice. I had this issue with one of the new features of XenApp 6.5 and I thought you might like to see how I’ve put this together in my own deployments and why I think it should be one of the first things you do for your own builds. I’m more of a visual learner so hopefully this will help a few of you out too.
A bit of background
Before we go forward, lets take a few steps back over some familiar technology.
Remember in the old days when you would launch a Presentation Server app with a click of an icon and…wait…wait…logon script fires up…profile loads…wait a moment more…ta-dahh, you’re app is ready? Well we, and a few other clever partners, managed to reduce application launch time by doing clever things with the user profile or just trimming the fat that was the traditional roaming profile. But it was never going to be ‘like-local,’ which is really the end-goal of any virtual desktop solution.
In XenApp 6.5 we’ve cracked this launch delay by using a combination of the latest Windows Receiver and a new feature called Session Pre-Launch. Using this feature will mean than any application will start up immediately, without any delay.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, A Field Guide to XenApp 6.5 Session Pre-Launch- The Citrix Blogs
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