Koetzing IT
Thomas Kötzing - Freiberufler, Analyst - MVP, CTP
The interactive session is probably the most time spent during logon, according to Citrix Director. What is, actually, the interactive session and how can it be reduced? For many customers and users the logon duration is important and, therefore, you might want to minimize the time. This is nothing new and I have written and talked about the Windows logon a lot in the past because it's an important topic, once you steal the user's PC and replace it with a Thin Client.
In my opinion, Citrix Director is the best peace in XenDesktop 7 if you don't see it as a replacement for EdgeSight. That is what Citrix does, calls it an EdgeSight replacement but again, in my opinion, was a mistake to do. For customer who really used or still use EdgeSight, the "New" EdgeSight is more or less a joke. For those customers, Citrix must come up with something else or acquire another software or company for it like "Nexthing".
Again, Director "EdgeSight" is a nice integration but here is my list that could be better and let's hope Citrix will do something about it.
Let's start with there should be an Option in the Internet Information Service (IIS) application settings to set the default domain and hide the entry. It's really not that hard, so I don unterstand why Citrix isn't doing it.
Here a short description how to permanantly set your domain and then hide the domain filed from the Citrix Director logon page.
