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Running Published Applications from a Client Desktop
After rebooting your client computer, you can access published applications from the desktop.
After logging into your client computer note that you have three icons on your desktop: Calculator2, which runs calculator on the secondary server of DemoFarm, Notepad1, which runs Notepad on the primary server of DemoFarm, and My Citrix, which opens www.mycitrix.com in a browser window that runs locally.
To show that you can run applications from DemoFarm
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Note that both applications appear to be running locally, but are actually running on the servers in your MetaFrame Server farm, DemoFarm.
Workspace Control
In addition to both applications appearing to be running locally, note that text you earlier typed in Notepad and the numbers you earlier typed in Calculator are available. This is called Workspace Control and is a feature that is new with MetaFrame Presentation Server.
Workspace Control provides users with the ability to quickly disconnect from all running applications, reconnect to applications, or log off from all running applications. You can move between client devices and gain access to all of your applications when you log on. For example, health care workers in a hospital can move quickly between workstations and access the same set of applications each time they log on to MetaFrame Presentation Server. These users can disconnect from multiple applications at one client device and open all the same applications when they reconnect at a different client device.
Printing to Client Printers
When client users run applications that are published on servers, they can print to the following types of printers:
•Printers connected to client devices running Windows, Windows CE, DOS, or MacOS
•Virtual printers created for tasks such as printing from a PostScript driver to a file
•Shared printers that are connected to print servers on a network
•Printers that are directly connected to the servers
