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When you publish applications, user access to those applications is greatly simplified in three areas:

uAddressing. Instead of connecting to a Citrix server by its IP address or server name, ICA Client users can connect to a specific application by whatever name you give it. Connecting to applications by name eliminates the need for users to remember which servers contain which applications.

uNavigation of the server desktop. Instead of requiring client users to have knowledge of the Windows NT 4.0 and/or 3.51 desktop (Windows NT Explorer or Program Manager) to find and start applications after connecting to Citrix servers, published applications present the ICA Client user with only the desired application in an ICA session.

uUser authentication. Instead of logging on and logging off multiple Citrix servers to access applications, Program Neighborhood users can authenticate themselves a single time to all servers and obtain immediate access to all applications configured for their user group or specific user name. Also, publishing applications for the special Citrix anonymous user group lets you completely eliminate the need for user authentication for those applications you want to provide to all users on your network.

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Program Neighborhood facilitates user access to published applications by eliminating the need for client-side configuration of connections. Program Neighborhood presents application sets to client users. An application set is a user’s view of the applications published on a given server farm, which that user is authorized to access. Each user performs a single authentication to all servers in a farm and is then presented with an application set containing each application configured for his or her specific user account or user group. Published applications appear as icons in the view of the farm and are pre-configured for such connection properties as session window size and colors and supported level of encryption, audio, and video.

1RWH Program Neighborhood is the program users run to connect to MetaFrame servers with the Citrix ICA Client for Win32 (Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT platforms).

Using Program Neighborhood greatly simplifies the process of locating and connecting to published applications. For example, if you want your ICA Client users to have access to a word processing program, they can do either of the following: