When implementing and publishing an application with Horizon infrastructure a classic situation is the request from the users to reduce the time of waiting until the application is ready to use.
Well we have a feature to speed up the application start, this functionality is the “Pre-Launch option”
A little recap:
When a user start a Publish Application we have two step:
- The first step, the login to the RDS host assigned
- The Second step, the application start
With the “Pre-Launch” Option we can remove the First step because this option does that when the user login to Horizon Infrastructure, if the user is entitled to Application Pool (with the pre-launch option enabled), an automatic session (login) starts on a RDS Host.
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This improves the start of the application because the RDS user Session is just running on the RDS farm.
We can see my video where I tested this function (Sorry it is in the Italian language, but it is very clear with only seeing the video)