If you are thinking about setting up a thin-client networking solution based on Citrix's popular MetaFrame technology and know little about MetaFrame now, Citrix MetaFrame for Windows Terminal Services will make your day. More experienced and knowledgeable MetaFrame engineers will probably find this book lacking in expert-level tricks and techniques. Read this volume for the fundamentals; turn to other books (such as Todd Mathers's excellent Windows NT/2000 Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Services and Citrix MetaFrame) for deeper wisdom.

After providing a primer on Windows Terminal Services and the design of Citrix's thin-client solution, the book approaches MetaFrame work as a consultant might. It walks through the design issues presented by an organisational MetaFrame implementation (also known as a corporate application service provider, or corporate ASP), and helpfully provides you with ammunition to use against standard objections (single point of failure, dependence on the network and so on). Then it discusses the implementation challenges of specific corporate ASP requirements, such as file services, printing capability, application sharing, and different user profiles. Text explanations are enhanced via conceptual diagrams, stepped procedures, lists of Registry settings, and script listings. --David Wall

Citrix application server software and services add functionality to Microsoft servers so that IT can maintain and manage applications remotely. This step-by-step guide is Officially endorsed by Citrix Systems, and includes a foreword by Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc. It defines the strategies and provides the framwork for designing and implementing an enterprise deployment of Terminal Services and Metaframe.

The authors are thin-client gurus, Steve Kaplan and Marc Mangus of RYNO (Reduce Your Network Overhead) Technology which is one of the top five Citrix implementors in the world.

Citrix's application server software and services add functionality to Microsoft servers to maintain and manage applications remotely. This guide aims to define the strategies and frameworks for the successful design and implementation of Terminal Service and MetaFrame.

An Authorized Resource on Citrix Products

Exploit the server-based computing alternative using Citirx MetaFrame 1.8, Windows 2000 Terminal Services, or Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. Learn how to plan and implement a server-based environment, ensure a redundant and scalable data center, integrate with legacy systems, and centralize printing and Web browsing services. You'll also find all the information you need on rollover and migration plans, security protocols, virus protection, and network management procedures. Reduce the complexity and total costs associated with end-to-end enterprise class computing in no time!

Learn to:

- Build, deploy, and administer a successful server-based computing environment
- Install and maintain Windows 2000 Terminal Services and MetaFrame 1.8
- Simplify administration with Citrix Installation Management Services and resource Management Services
- Configure a reliable, distributed data center to house your Corporate ASP
- Construct the network backbone using Ethernet switching, FDDI, and ATM options
- Centralize all printing tasks and write scripts to automate configuration tasks
- Interoperate server-based networks with legacy systems
- Optimize security using Citrix SecureICA and IPSec
- Design and execute successful Terminal Services rollout and migration plans

Steve Kaplan (Benecia, CA) is the CEO and cofounder of RYNO technology. Steve is a charter columnist for Solutions Integrator and was formally a columnist for Reseller Management.

Marc Mangus (Benecia, CA) is a Senior Engineering Consultant for RYNO. He was formerly Director of Information Services at Wink Communications where the network he implemented was named to the top 100 in the country by Wired Magazine.

2001-09-17 Genuine best practice manual

Excellent book that I read very quickly and which provided great help when implementing a Citrix solution. I still regularly refer to it even though the project has completed. It is not really a technical support manual but a "best practice" manual.