https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/session-remote-start Citrix Session Remote Start - Technical Preview

We worked with the team on the development of this feature, this is great stuff, great work from the team. And there are more stuff to come!

Am I missing the point or is this just a tacit admission that Citrix sessions can sometimes take way too long to start? And this whole "saving 20 seconds per user per day equals $$$$$ over the year" is just bullshit. Just smells like Session Pre-Launch, rebranded

pretty pumped about this and agree, very similar to session pre-launch, and in my opinion, that's a good. It's a nice feature that i dont see too often as sometimes it's not practical to perform the pre-launch. Hope there are other ways to initiate the session remote start, maybe even en mass.

Session Pre-Launch requires the Citrix client to connect to the infra to start the resources in the background. If the user is used to start Citrix, click on the resource to launch, Session Pre-Launch brings no benefit. Here, it is centrally managed, at scale. With some more features I am not sure I am allowed to share. Honestly, this is great feature.

Sounds pointless to me regardless. Just fix the crap slowing down boots and logons.

Sometimes you cannot James. When there are security tools that are impacting the logon times and the vendor says he won't do anything about it, features like this one are welcomed. In lab, I am like you, below 15 seconds. But I am not allowed to reproduce the lab in the prod :(

That's an admission of defeat. And logging in everyone's session for them without any user interaction just sounds weird and like a security snafu of the future. And if vendors say they won't do anything to address their products being shite that affects user productivity then that's an incentive for a) vendor to be shown the door and b) incentive for someone to write something that does the same but doesn't f*ck up everyone's shit

I share your thoughts, but when the management has different interests...

I understand, it's the marketing of it as "wow look how cool this is" that annoys me, when really it's just a crutch for the utter crap we have been forced to incorporate into our images

Definitely. From the OS to the app users launch. From all vendors.

just a step in evolution....Citrix makes a faster way for sessions to start, now people want Citrix. Other vendors won't like that and may begin fixing their apps/code.

A lot of the slowdowns for login is not Citrix, but instead OS specific. This will be great do great if it has some type of hookup with Imprivata for hospitals where people login to that first, and it can prebuild the sessions to make connections quicker.