Hi Greg,
Your concerns are similar to that of many that are just jumping into desktop virtualization. It sounds like your main concern is security--data security, desktop security, antivirus security, and app security. Virtualized desktops can address all of that fairly easily.
A few settings you'll want to configure:
- Disable access to local drives, including USB drives within Citrix policies
- Disallow users from self-tweaking their systems, including locking down the command prompt and many control panel items via AD GPOs
- Administratively configure antivirus
When I was in field consulting, I would often ask the customer for a standard user account to see the environment from a user perspective. As you're moving along with your testing, I strongly encourage you to do the same. Sounds overly simplified, maybe, but it will help you gauge whether your security settings are overly prohibitive or perhaps too lax (yikes!).
Based on what you've written, I'm not sure whether you will host your applications on XenApp or use App-V streamed apps to either the virtual desktop or XenApp. In any case, think through what it is you need to do and the user experience. Take a look at CTX125515 for help with this.
Jo Harder
Citrix Systems
