CONFIGURING CITRIX METAFRAME XP FOR WINDOWS
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 THIN CLIENTS AND DIGITAL INDEPENDENCE INTRODUCTION THE MAINFRAME MODEL MEETS DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING A HISTORY OF THE MAINFRAME THE MAINFRAME MODEL ADVANTAGES OF THE MAINFRAME MODEL DISADVANTAGES OF CENTRALIZED COMPUTING A HISTORY OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ADVANTAGES OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING DISADVANTAGES OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING THE METAFRAME XP THIN CLIENT MODEL COMBINED ADVANTAGES OF THE TWO MODELS NEW THIN CLIENT MODEL ADVANTAGES OVERCOMING THE DISADVANTAGES OF PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF METAFRAME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REMOTE NODE AND REMOTE CONTROL REMOTE NODE COMPUTING REMOTE CONTROL COMPUTING THE EVOLUTION OF THE THIN CLIENT THE HISTORY OF CITRIX METAFRAME PRODUCT EVOLUTION: FROM CITRIX WINVIEW TO WINFRAME TO METAFRAME METAFRAME XPS, XPA, AND XPE NFUSE CITRIX METAFRAME 1 1 FOR UNIX WINDOWS 2000 TERMINAL SERVICES SPECIAL MODE FOR INSTALLING APPLICATIONS OVERVIEW OF TERMINAL SERVICES LICENSING OVERVIEW OF TERMINAL SERVICES CONSOLES REMOTE DESKTOP PROTOCOL CITRIX METAFRAME XP INDEPENDENT COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE MOVING TO THE SERVER FARM GAINING DIGITAL INDEPENDENCE WITH THIN CLIENTS ACHIEVING BOTTOM-LINE VALUE WITH THIN CLIENTS CALCULATING COSTS CALCULATING BENEFITS EXTENDING THE LIFE OF OLDER EQUIPMENT REDUCING BANDWIDTH CONSUMPTION ALLOWING THE HELP DESK TO SHADOW USERS MEETING BUSINESS NEEDS SECURITY INTERNET DEPLOYMENT TO UNKNOWN CLIENTS SUMMARY SOLUTIONS FAST TRACK FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS CHAPTER 2 FARMING METAFRAME XP SERVERS UNDERSTANDING SERVER FARMS CITRIX METAFRAME XP SERVER FARMS DESIGNING A METAFRAME XP SERVER FARM A SINGLE SERVER FARM MULTIPLE SERVER FARMS MIXING CITRIX METAFRAME 1 8 AND XP IN A FARM CITRIX METAFRAME XP NATIVE MODE CITRIX METAFRAME XP MIXED MODE USING MIXED MODE PLANNING A SERVER FARM PROJECT GATHERING BUSINESS GOALS IDENTIFYING EXISTING BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS DETERMINING THE GAPS AND RISKS SPECIFYING THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT AND BUDGETING CONSIDERATIONS CREATING THE PROJECT TIMELINES AND ESTABLISHING MILESTONES PLANNING FOR TRAINING NEEDS ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING END-USER TRAINING AN INTRODUCTION TO XP SERVER FARM MANAGEMENT INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE THE IMA DATA STORE IMA ZONES THE IMA DATA COLLECTOR BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS FOR A SERVER FARM SERVER-TO-DATA-STORE COMMUNICATION DATA COLLECTOR COMMUNICATION LISTENER PORTS CHAPTER 3 ROUTING AND REMOTE ACCESS DESIGNING AND PLACING RRAS SERVERS ON THE NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING CONSIDERING PROCESSOR POWER MONITORING RAM CHOOSING A STORAGE SOLUTION CHOOSING A NIC CHOOSING A MODEM STANDARD AVAILABILITY PLANNING REDUNDANT COMPONENTS CLUSTERING SERVERS USING MULTIPLE RRAS SERVERS PLACING THE RRAS SERVERS ON THE NETWORK REMOTE ACCESS PROTOCOLS DIALUP CLIENTS SERIAL LINE INTERNET PROTOCOL POINT-TO-POINT PROTOCOL AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS VPN CLIENTS POINT-TO-POINT TUNNELING PROTOCOL LAYER 2 TUNNELING PROTOCOL IP SECURITY PROTOCOL INSTALLING ROUTING AND REMOTE ACCESS SERVICES CONFIGURING FOR DIALUP CLIENTS CONFIGURING YOUR RAS SERVER IN WINDOWS CONFIGURING FOR VPN CLIENTS PPTP IPSEC L2TP UPGRADING AND MIGRATING TO RRAS UPGRADING NT RAS UPGRADING FROM WINDOWS NT 3 5X RAS MIGRATING FROM A THIRD-PARTY REMOTE ACCESS SERVER DIRECT DIAL TO CITRIX METAFRAME XP: THE ALTERNATIVE METHOD CHAPTER 4 DESIGNING THE THIN CLIENT SOLUTION DESIGNING A THREE-TIER SOLUTION LOGICAL DESIGN DATA STORAGE CONNECTIVITY DESIGNING AND PLACING TERMINAL SERVERS ON THE NETWORK IDENTIFYING HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS PROCESSORS RAM STORAGE NETWORK INTERFACES MODEMS PLACING TERMINAL SERVICES ON THE NETWORK WHAT IS RDP? BANDWIDTH USAGE REQUIRING TCP/IP DESIGN IMPACTS OF CITRIX METAFRAME XP CAPACITY IMPACTS OF CITRIX METAFRAME XP SERVER PLACEMENT ON THE NETWORK LOAD BALANCING APPLICATION LOAD BALANCING LICENSE POOLING PROTOCOL EXPANSION A LAN EXAMPLE A WAN EXAMPLE AN INTERNET EXAMPLE CLIENT OPTIONS WHAT IS ICA? PACKET DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED PROTOCOLS TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/INTERNET PROTOCOL INTERNETWORK PACKET EXCHANGE/ SEQUENCED PACKET EXCHANGE NETBIOS EXTENDED USER INTERFACE CHAPTER 5 INSTALLING CITRIX METAFRAME XP SINGLE-SERVER INSTALLATION A QUICK OVERVIEW OF WINDOWS INSTALLATION PARTITIONING THE HARD DISK PARTICIPATION IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY INSTALLING TERMINAL SERVICES INSTALLING CITRIX METAFRAME XP DEPLOYING MULTIPLE SERVERS TESTING CONFIGURATIONS AND DEPLOYING A PILOT INSTALLING IDENTICAL SERVERS SERVER CLONING UNATTENDED INSTALLATIONS MIGRATING FROM A METAFRAME 1 8 FARM TO METAFRAME XP USING METAFRAME XP MIXED MODE CITRIX FARM NAME APPLICATION MIGRATION ICA BROWSER ELECTIONS ICA GATEWAYS LICENSE MIGRATION CITRIX FARM AND SERVER MANAGEMENT USING METAFRAME XP NATIVE MODE CHAPTER 6 CONNECTING THIN CLIENTS CLIENT LICENSING RDP CLIENTS ICA CLIENTS MANAGING LICENSING IN A CITRIX METAFRAME XP SERVER FARM ADDING LICENSES ACTIVATING LICENSES MONITORING PRODUCT USAGE AND CONNECTION LICENSES ASSIGNING LICENSE COUNTS TO SPECIFIC SERVERS IN THE FARM REMOVING LICENSE NUMBERS LICENSING INTERNET CLIENTS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS RDP 4 0 FEATURES RDP 5 0 NEW FEATURES RDP HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS LOCAL/REMOTE CLIPBOARD INTEGRATION CLIENT DEVICE MAPPING SEAMLESS WINDOW SESSION SHADOWING PROGRAM NEIGHBORHOOD APPLICATION LAUNCHING AND EMBEDDING PERSISTENT BITMAP CACHING ICA HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ICA-SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS INSTALLING RDP CLIENTS INSTALLATION FOR 32-BIT WINDOWS INSTALLATION FOR 16-BIT WINDOWS INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS CE INSTALLING ICA CLIENTS INSTALLATION FOR DOS INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS CE INSTALLATION FOR MACINTOSH INSTALLATION FOR UNIX/LINUX USING SERVER AUTO-LOCATION AUTOMATING INSTALLATION DECIDING WHEN TO AUTOMATE INSTALLATION CREATING AN AUTOMATED CLIENT INSTALLATION PACKAGE DEPLOYING THE PACKAGE TO MULTIPLE CLIENTS DISKETTES SCRIPTS GROUP POLICIES SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT SERVERS CHAPTER 7 CONFIGURING THE SERVER CONFIGURING SESSIONS CREATING RDP SESSIONS CREATING THE ICA SESSIONS ICA SESSION OPTIONS SHADOWING CONFIGURING SESSION PARAMETERS LOCKING DOWN COPYING AND PRINTING FEATURES LAUNCHING THE ENTIRE DESKTOP OR A SINGLE APPLICATION CONFIGURING USERS USING THE MMC ACTIVE DIRECTORY USERS AND COMPUTERS SNAP-IN CREATING USERS IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY USERS AND COMPUTERS CUSTOMIZING USER ACCOUNTS CONFIGURING REMOTE CONTROL LOCKING DOWN THE ABILITY TO COPY AND PRINT MAPPING DRIVES CONNECTING PRINTERS USING PROFILES APPLYING GROUP POLICIES UNDERSTANDING GROUP POLICY AND ACTIVE DIRECTORY CREATING A CUSTOM MMC FOR GROUP POLICY ZONES DATA STORE DATA COLLECTOR LOCAL HOST CACHE CHAPTER 8 CITRIX METAFRAME XP MANAGEMENT USING THE CITRIX MANAGEMENT CONSOLE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHING CONNECTIVITY WITH THE DATA STORE CONFIGURING A DIRECT ODBC CONNECTION TO A SQL SERVER DATABASE CONFIGURING AUTOMATIC DATA REFRESH ORGANIZING SERVER AND APPLICATION FOLDERS USING THE CITRIX INSTALLATION MANAGER CONFIGURING THE PACKAGER UTILITY SETTING UP THE INSTALLER UTILITY USING THE CIM PLUG-IN FOR THE CMC UNINSTALLING PACKAGES USING THE CITRIX SERVER ADMINISTRATION TOOL MANAGING SERVERS MANAGING USERS AND SESSIONS SPECIFYING SHADOW PERMISSIONS TO A CONNECTION PROFILE ESTABLISHING A SHADOWING SESSION ESTABLISHING A SHADOW SESSION USING THE SHADOW TASKBAR ESTABLISHING A SHADOW SESSION USING THE CITRIX SERVER ADMINISTRATION TOOL USING THE CITRIX CONNECTION CONFIGURATION TOOL CONFIGURING THE SPEEDSCREEN LATENCY REDUCTION MANAGER CHAPTER 9 INSTALLING AND PUBLISHING APPLICATIONS SELECTING COMPATIBLE APPLICATIONS PREPARING THE ENVIRONMENT INSTALLING APPLICATIONS USING THE CORRECT INSTALLATION MODE SHADOW REGISTRY THE WINDOWS INSTALLER DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS TO A SERVER FARM INSTALLATION MANAGER LOAD MANAGER REMOVING APPLICATIONS OPTIMIZING APPLICATION PERFORMANCE USING APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY SCRIPTS DISABLING AND ENABLING SOUND HANDLING VIDEO SETTING GRAPHICS LEVELS TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE MONITORING APPLICATIONS PUBLISHING APPLICATIONS USING THE ICA TOOLBAR CHAPTER 10 SECURITY AND LOAD MANAGEMENT SECURITY STRATEGIES FOR A CITRIX METAFRAME XP SERVER FARM VIRUS PROTECTION INTRUSION DETECTION FIREWALLS ENCRYPTING CITRIX METAFRAME XP UNDERSTANDING ENCRYPTION SYMMETRIC KEY ENCRYPTION ASYMMETRIC KEY ENCRYPTION SECURE SOCKETS LAYER ENCRYPTION STRENGTH OPTIONS WHERE CAN YOU USE ENCRYPTION ENCRYPTING SERVER, PUBLISHED APPLICATION, AND CLIENT COMMUNICATIONS USING HTTPS USING THE SSL RELAY SERVICE CLIENTS THAT CAN SUPPORT ENCRYPTION CONFIGURING ENCRYPTION ON CITRIX METAFRAME XP CONFIGURING SERVER ENCRYPTION CONFIGURING PUBLISHED APPLICATION ENCRYPTION CONFIGURING CLIENT ENCRYPTION DISABLING PASS-THROUGH AUTHENTICATION ON WIN32 ICA CLIENTS USING HTTPS WITH NFUSE CONFIGURING THE CITRIX SSL RELAY USING LOAD MANAGER MANAGING LOAD-BALANCED APPLICATIONS LOAD EVALUATORS LOAD EVALUATOR RULES CREATING AND ASSIGNING A LOAD EVALUATOR CALCULATING LOAD VALUES MONITORING LOAD-BALANCED APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 11 EXTENDING CITRIX METAFRAME XP OVER THE INTERNET BUSINESS REASONS FOR PROVIDING APPLICATIONS ACROSS THE INTERNET USING CITRIX METAFRAME XP WITH VPN FOR TELECOMMUTERS INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS INTO INTRANETS PROVIDING SOFTWARE-BASED DEMOS EXTENDING APPLICATIONS BETWEEN BUSINESSES DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS WITH NFUSE CITRIX WEB COMPONENTS CITRIX METAFRAME XP SERVER FARM WEB SERVER CREATING A CUSTOMIZED NFUSE WEB SITE ICA CLIENT INSTALLING NFUSE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLING NFUSE INSTALLATION PROCESS CUSTOMIZING NFUSE JAVA OBJECTS USING VPNS WITH CITRIX METAFRAME XP CLIENTS DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS TO LAUNCH FROM A BROWSER ICA FILES CREATING AN ICA FILE FOR A PUBLISHED APPLICATION SERVER PARAMETERS USING THE TERMINAL SERVICES ADVANCED CLIENT CHAPTER 12 PRINTING DEFINING PRINTER TERMINOLOGY CREATING CLIENT PRINTERS AUTOCREATING PRINTERS IMPACT OF PRINT DRIVER NAMES MAPPING PRINT DRIVER NAMES USING NETWORK PRINTERS USING LOCAL PRINTERS PRINTING IN A SERVER FARM ENVIRONMENT REPLICATING PRINT DRIVERS IMPORTING PRINT SERVERS MANAGING PRINT DRIVERS UPDATING PRINT DRIVERS IN THE XP DATA STORE TROUBLESHOOTING PRINTING PROBLEMS LOCAL CLIENT PRINTERS FAILING TO AUTOCREATE IN ICA SESSIONS CREATING A PRINTER POOL CREATING AN EXPEDITED PRINT QUEUE CHAPTER 13 WIRELESS AND MOBILE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS DRIVERS FOR WIRELESS SOLUTIONS THE NEED FOR MOBILITY SELECTING CITRIX FOR RICH APPLICATIONS OVER LOW WIRELESS BANDWIDTH HOW CITRIX PROVIDES HIGHER FUNCTIONALITY ON PDAS INSTALLING CITRIX ICA CLIENT ON A WINDOWS CE DEVICE PLANNING A WIRELESS SOLUTION CREATING A PRIVATE WIRELESS LAN REQUIRED WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT 802 11B 802 11A 802 11E THE BASIC SERVICE SET THE EXTENDED SERVICE SET SERVICES TO THE 802 11 ARCHITECTURE THE CSMA-CA MECHANISM THE RTS/CTS MECHANISM ACKNOWLEDGING THE DATA CONFIGURING FRAGMENTATION USING POWER MANAGEMENT OPTIONS MULTICELL ROAMING SECURITY IN THE WLAN USING A PUBLIC WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTING VIA CELLULAR MODEMS TO THE INTERNET PUBLIC WIRELESS PROTOCOLS OTHER PUBLIC WIRELESS PROTOCOLS DESIGNING A WIRELESS SOLUTION USING A PUBLIC WIRELESS NETWORK SELECTING CLIENTS SERVER AND INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN CITRIX METAFRAME XP ACCESS OVER THE INTERNET USING VPNS CONFIGURATION CONSIDERATIONS DESIGNING A PRIVATE WIRELESS NETWORK DESIGN STEPS FOR A PRIVATE WIRELESS NETWORK CHAPTER 14 BUILDING A PORTAL INTRODUCING PORTALS CITRIX NFUSE APPLICATION PORTAL PERSONALIZING DATA PRESENTATION MANAGING PORTALS FROM A SINGLE POINT BUILDING A PORTAL WITH NFUSE CITRIX METAFRAME XP SERVER A SUPPORTED WEB SERVER INSTALLING THE WEB SERVER EXTENSIONS ON THE INTERNET INFORMATION SERVER CUSTOMIZING NFUSE USING THE NFUSE CONF FILE CUSTOMIZING THE WEB PAGE LOOK PROVIDING WINDOWS APPLICATIONS IN THE PORTAL PROVIDING UNIX AND JAVA APPLICATIONS IN THE PORTAL USING SSL ENCRYPTION SECURING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE CLIENT DEVICE AND THE NFUSE WEB SERVER SECURING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE NFUSE WEB SERVER AND THE CITRIX SERVER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE CLIENT DEVICE AND THE CITRIX SERVER SYNCHRONIZING APPLICATION STATUS USING AUTHENTICATION IN A PORTAL ACTIVE DIRECTORY NOVELL DIRECTORY SERVICES CUSTOMIZING NFUSE WITH PROJECT COLUMBIA BUILDING A REDUNDANT NFUSE PORTAL CHAPTER 15 MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE MINIMIZING AND TROUBLESHOOTING SERVER PROBLEMS ESTABLISHING BASELINE PERFORMANCE COLLECTING BASELINE DATA EXAMINING THE EVENT VIEWER MAKING SENSE OF EVENTS MANAGING THE EVENT VIEWER FILTERING AND SEARCHING FOR EVENTS HANDLING EVENTS USING THE SYSTEM INFORMATION TOOL MONITORING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE UNDERSTANDING OBJECTS AND COUNTERS ADDING PERFORMANCE MONITOR COUNTERS USING PERFORMANCE COUNTERS TRACKING “LEAKY”APPLICATIONS WITH PERFMON CITRIX NETWORK MANAGER SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS INSTALLING NETWORK MANAGER ENABLING THE SNMP AGENT NETWORK MONITORING CAPTURING TRAFFIC RESOURCE MANAGER INSTALLING RESOURCE MANAGER USING CITRIX RESOURCE MANAGER METRICS GENERATING RESOURCE MANAGER REPORTS CREATING A REPORT SENDING ALERTS BACKUP AND RECOVERY BACKUP STRATEGIES FOR STANDALONE SERVERS WINDOWS 2000 BACKUP PROCEDURES BACKUP TYPES CHOOSING WHAT AND HOW TO BACKUP YOUR SERVERS RESTORING DATA FROM A BACKUP BACKUP STRATEGIES FOR SERVER FARMS MAINTAINING METAFRAME XP SERVER FARMS BACKING UP THE IMA DATA STORE MIGRATING AN ACCESS DATA STORE TO ORACLE OR MS SQL REPLACING METAFRAME SERVERS CHANGING FARM MEMBERSHIPS RECOVERING AN UNRESPONSIVE SERVER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND CITRIX METAFRAME XPE