Chapter 8. Optimizing Your XenApp® Solution

In the earlier chapters, we focused on analysis and high-level design. In the last three chapters, we dug deep into building out our XenApp environment. Now that the environment has been built, we will focus on optimizing our solution in preparation for production workloads.

In this chapter, you will learn about:

  • Managing user profiles
  • Configuring Citrix policies
  • Planning Active Directory policies
  • Controlling printing

Managing user profiles

User profiles contain personalization settings for each user. On a Windows system, every user has their own profile. The user profile contains settings such as application settings, registry values, wallpaper settings, and so on.

Types of profiles

In a Windows computing environment, ...

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