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February 7, 2025

Use Multiple Sessions of a Published Application From Different Client Devices

When an administrator has activated multi-session mode for a published application, you can use multiple sessions of the same published application when you log in to the server from different client devices.

For example, if you open a published application in multi-session mode on client A, and then open the same published application on client B, the published application remains open on client A and a new session of the published application opens on client B. By comparison, when multi-session mode is deactivated (single-session mode), the published application session on client A disconnects and reconnects on client B.

The multi-session mode feature has the following limitations.

  • Multi-session mode does not work for applications that do not support multiple instances.
  • If the application session is disconnected while you are using a published application in multi-session mode, you are logged off automatically and any unsaved data is lost.

Prerequisites

An administrator must activate multi-session mode for the application pool. End users cannot modify the multi-session mode for a published application unless an administrator allows it. See Windows Desktops and Applications in Horizon 8.

Procedure

  1. Connect to a server.

  2. Click the Settings toolbar button in the upper-right corner of the desktop and application selector window, scroll down to the Multi-Launch setting, and click Set.

  3. Select the published applications that you want to use in multi-session mode and click OK.

    If an administrator has enforced multi-session mode for a published application, you cannot change this setting.

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