Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Introducing Citrix® MetaFrame XP™ Application
Server Software
MetaFrame XP
™
is the latest version of Citrix Systems, Inc.’s value-added software for
Windows® terminal services. Citrix originally introduced MetaFrame® to work with
Microsoft’s Windows NT® Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition (WTS). If you wanted to get
much good out of the first edition of Windows terminal services, MetaFrame was a near-
necessity. Windows terminal services has improved dramatically with Windows 2000 (Win2K)
Server and .NET Server, particularly when it comes to client-side capabilities, so MetaFrame is
no longer absolutely required for making Windows terminal services work. However, as you’ll
see in this book, MetaFrame offers far more server-side management tools than Windows
terminal services offers even in its most recent incarnation. In addition, MetaFrame provides
some client-side capabilities that Windows terminal services still doesn’t have.
MetaFrame Feature and Pricing Information
MetaFrame 1.8 software is a basic package with add-ons: you buy MetaFrame 1.8, then you add
the Load Balancing Services, Resource Management Service (RMS), and Installation
Management Service (IMS) add-ons, all as separate products. MetaFrame XP is packaged
differently; rather than being sold as a single product with add-ons, Citrix offers three different
versions of MetaFrame XP: XPs, XPa, and XPe.
MetaFrame XPs, the base product, supports application publishing, a new printer driver and
print–bandwidth–management capabilities; read access to Active Directory™ (AD), centralized
license management, publishing applications from Web pages with NFuse™ 1.5, advanced
session shadowing, and client time zones so that users’ clocks depend on their location not the
location of the terminal server.
In addition to all the previously mentioned features, MetaFrame XPa includes Load Management
(formerly Load Balancing). And MetaFrame XPe, the enterprise edition of MetaFrame XP,
supports all the previously named features as well as System Monitoring and Analysis,
Application Packaging and Delivery, and interaction with network-management tools such as
Tivoli and HP OpenView (and, with Feature Release 1—FR1—for MetaFrame XP, Computer
Associates’ Unicenter TNG).
All versions of MetaFrame XP support high color (new with MetaFrame 1.8 FR1), sound, a
shared clipboard between local and remote sessions, and automatic printer mapping. Table 1.1
lists the client-side and server-side capabilities of MetaFrame and the versions of MetaFrame in
which they’re available.
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