XenDesktop^® Studio versus Microsoft Group Policy Editor

There are two ways to manage policies in XenDesktop. You can use XenDesktop Studio or the Microsoft Group Policy Editor. Which tool you should use depends on your Site. If you have Active Directory installed and the appropriate permissions to manage Group Policy Objects (GPOs), you might want to use the Microsoft Group Policy Editor. If you are a Citrix administrator and don't have permissions to manage group policies, you might want to use XenDesktop Studio to create policies. If you use Studio to create policies, they get stored in the XenDesktop database and updates are applied to the desktop when the desktop gets registered or when a user connects to the desktop.

If your Site has Active Directory installed and you have permissions to manage the group policies, you should use the Microsoft Group Policy Editor. The settings that you configure will affect the GPOs you select in the Group Policy Editor. The policies created in the Group...