Facilitating XenApp^® administration with Citrix^® policies

In the IT world, Group Policies are a constant presence and a big factor when making decisions about how to manage infrastructures, especially those where the sheer number of users creates a high degree of complexity, which results in more support tickets and other hurdles for IT staff. The effective use of GPOs can greatly reduce these hurdles and facilitate management of the environment, even more so in XenApp, which has so many moving parts. To help customers achieve this goal, Citrix has provided an entire collection of Citrix policies in Citrix Studio or as an Active Directory snap-in so that administrators can have full control over things, such as virtual channels in the ICA connection and printing settings. I have actually dedicated the entire next chapter to printing just because it is such a vast topic that's very often clouded by confusion and uncertainty. Here are several examples of Citrix policy categories in XenApp...