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...