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Chapter 4. Examples of Windows Terminal Server and MetaFrame design 29
Figure 4-1 A single MetaFrame XPa server
The Windows Terminal Server, Citrix MetaFrame, and applications were installed using the
instructions provided in Chapter 5, “Installing and configuring the software” on page 35. The
terminal server was installed as a stand-alone server rather than running the additional
Domain controller tasks.
The server was a member of the Active Directory Domain, and the server object was placed
in its own Organizational Unit (OU). Placing the server object in its own OU allows it to be
easily secured by Group Policy Objects. You can see a sample Group Policy Object in 5.2,
“Group Policy Object (GPO) and profile configuration” on page 37.
A license server is a Windows 2000 Server on which Terminal Services Licensing is enabled.
This server tracks the number of licenses that are purchased and must be installed for WTS
to operate.
The customer was running an existing file and print server with several different types of
network printers. Our recommendation was to only use the multi-user printer drivers that are
shipped with Windows Server 2003. Using third-party printer drivers in a multi-user
environment is known to result in system instability and the well-known blue-screen trap in a
Windows Server 2003 environment. For more information, consult the Citrix forum at:
http://www.citrix.com/support/forums.asp
4.2 Medium WTS and MetaFrame environment
Another customer wanted to use Windows Terminal Server and MetaFrame XP to support a
total of 200 users for a single client/server application, with the expectation of significant
growth in user numbers in the short term. Thirty of the users were located in the customer's
headquarters, connected by a switched 10/100 Mbps Ethernet network. The other 30 users
were located in a remote overseas office via a 128 Kbps frame-relay wide area network
(WAN) link.
The application was to be accessed as a published application allowing users to easily
connect to the new client/server application from their Independent Computing Architecture
(ICA) clients. For Windows 32-bit clients, the application can be seamlessly accessed as if it
is a local application. MetaFrame XPe allows the customer to rapidly roll out this application to
all users in the company.
DOS Client
Win9X Client
Desktop used by
remote thin-client
xSeries 335
Published
Applications