HDX Plug-n-Play for USB storage is one of Citrix's HDX/High Definition eXperience features introduced in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. With this feature your users have the ability to plug-in their USB thumb drive/USB stick and use it with their XenApp delivered application. 

Can users now have a local-like experience when interacting with a USB stick or USB disk drive? Hurrah! Users will love it.

Until you show it to users...

And then, well.. there's often no pleasing users.

Microsoft, in an effort to make Internet Explorer 8 "more stable", have changed the underlying architecture of the browser and introduced a function called "Loosely-Coupled IE" (LCIE). 

However, this new function changes the way your users can use the Citrix Java Client to access their applications most importantly, by breaking session sharing.

Citrix Presentation Server is often touted as the solution to Remote Access working - pop in a couple of Citrix Servers and you can reduce your organisation's carbon footprint, give your user's a better work-life balance, allow your company to rationalise office space... the benefits are many and varied.

There is a great advantage in providing your users with a virtual window into your network in which they can work almost as effectively as if they were sat in the office.

But, who else can look in through this window?

Microsoft IT wanted to test the scalability and performance of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services. Microsoft were so impressed with the fact that their own product worked that the pilot project was rolled into the production environment at Microsoft IT. this environment acts as an SSL-based remote access solution.