Chapter 11. Managing Sessions

In the last chapter, we learned how to improve the multimedia experience of users using Citrix HDX technologies. Citrix HDX enables better multimedia and peripheral support, provides improvements in audio quality, and enables us to deliver multimedia and conference applications on XenApp farms. In this chapter, we will discuss Citrix sessions and how to manage session environments, and in particular, we will talk about:

• Understanding sessions

• Managing and monitoring sessions using Citrix AppCenter console

• Viewing and shadowing sessions

• Maintaining session activity using Session Reliability, Auto Client Reconnect, and ICA Keep-Alive

• Customizing user environments in XenApp

• Limiting concurrent connections

• Optimizing user sessions for XenApp

• Redirection of local special folders in sessions