Everything you wanted to know (or didn’t want to know) about Citrix Workspace Control
If you use Citrix Web Interface or Program Neighborhood Agent, you have no doubt seen those buttons that say “Reconnect”, “Disconnect”, and “Logoff”. Those buttons are part of a feature called Workspace Control - which is part of a feature called Smooth Roaming. The gist of Workspace Control is that user’s sessions “follow” them between devices. For instance, if a user logs on to workstation A and launches several sessions then logs on to workstation B, all the sessions would pop up on workstation B (whether the sessions were disconnected or active). Another feature of Workspace Control is the manual disconnect and reconnect options made available to the end user (that’s what those buttons mentioned earlier are for). So this all sounds simple - and it is in theory - but there is quite a bit of technology that goes in to making all this work. If you are interested in learning more about the “nuts and bolts” of Workspace Control, be sure to check out the Citrix article CTX116633. The article “…provides details about the design and functionality of the Workspace Control feature as implemented in Citrix Presentation Server versions 4.0 and 4.5.” You’ll learn about the XML Service, MFServer subsystem, IMA server queries, dynamic store, etc.
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