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Since I am switching between several machines this was developing into a real annoyance due to complex (RSA token based auth) login steps that would have to be repeated each time I was disconnected.

The is resource intensive as you will notice in the task manager.

When working on these devices their published applications would suddenly be disconnected.

Beside the small note Dan Brinkman already wrote about this issue there is also a nice thread about the issue on the Citrix Discussions forum.

To clarify this issue I decided to write an article about this issue.

Because the Citrix Receiver only handles the connection to StoreFront, youll also need to set this for the Citrix Viewer (previously known as the XenApp Viewer ).

Navigate to the Helpers folder, under the Contents folder, and use Command I (or right-click the app, then click Get Info ) to open the Get Info window for Citrix Viewer.

After the user logs on again (because of the services running in the background), the application will never hibernate again for this user.

Thats right, these settings are for the logged in user only.

This script can be started by the user and needs to run in the users context and is case sensitive.

Remember the user needs to re-login before the changed settings will be effective.

They enable the admin to steer the behavior of the published apps or desktops visible to the user in the different Citrix Receivers or through the Citrix Worx app in a XenMobile implementation.

This, for example, enables the organisation to automatically make an app or desktop visible to a user when they open the receiver for the first time.

The app or desktop will have an automatic subscription in the Citrix Receiver of a user.

F.e. If we publish a desktop and want that desktop to be visible to a new end user without requiring any action on the user side.

If you want the app or desktop to be sticky please read this blog by Citrix.

Especially when you have many apps and you want to highlight certain apps this is a convenient feature.

So the locally installed app will be started instead off the published application.

This means that in the Receiver for Web the Desktop is treated as an app and there is no need to switch views (Apps or Desktops).

Citrix Viewer Full When Using

This keyword is usefull when using a dual site setup.

F.e. you have an application published in both sites and published using the same name but you want the users of that app to stay in site A.

Only when Site A is not able to delivery the app from Site a the App displayed will be from site B.

This is completly transparant to the end user.A nice read for an active active datacenter is the link to this Citrix blog ActiveActive GSLB for XenDesktop A Practical Approach (Part 1).

This can be done by specifying more than one keyword in the published application or dektop.

So below a quick HOWTO add KEYWORDS to a Citrix Published Desktop or a Citrix published app on XenApp or XenDesktop.

Or go to the Applications tab, select the app you want and select edit.

To apply the fix I needed to find out on how to patch the XenMobile Device Manager.

I also wanted to know how I could check if the patch was applied and if I could see which patches where already applied.

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