Instant LogOff

At Administration > Performance you find Instant LogOff. With Instant LogOff, you can manage user profiles that fail to unload during logoff. This behavior can occur if applications do not close their registry handles when they are terminated. This behavior is usually caused by improper coding in either Microsoft software or third-party software.

Instant LogOff performs two separate actions:

• It enumerates all handles to the user registry when a user logs off, and forces them to close if they are not closed automatically. This ensures that user profiles are always unloaded. This prevents problems with the reconciliation of roaming profiles; with the registry size limit; and with the log off process to become slow (with the process remaining at "Saving Settings" for a long time).
• It disconnects users when they log off. The logoff process continues as normal after the disconnect, but users experience a faster logoff.

Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher automatically take care of user profiles that fail to unload. This part of Instant Logoff is not necessary anymore when using these versions of Microsoft Windows.

For Workspace Control sessions running on Citrix XenDesktop 7.x using the ICA protocol, the setting Disconnect user session when logoff is initiated is ignored, except when using the Workspace Control Shell.