Installing and Configuring Citrix XP FR-2 for Windows 2000 Application Serving

Installing and Configuring Citrix XP FR-2 for Windows 2000 Application Serving

Installing and Configuring Citrix XP FR-2 for Windows 2000 Application Serving

Newmarket International, Inc.

December 3, 2002

Version 1.0

Table of Contents

Document Control

Introduction and Overview

Requirements

Assumptions

Installing MetaFrame XP 1.0 FR2

Adding Post Service Pack 2 Hotfixes

Configuring MetaFrame XP 1.0

Configuring MetaFrame Administrators

Configuring Additional Servers to Participate in an Existing Farm

Publishing Applications in MetaFrame XP

Configuring Load Balancing for NI Installations......

Document Control

1.0 / Release 10/16/02

Introduction and Overview

The purpose of this document is to demonstrate the standards and procedures that should be met when installing Citrix XP on a Windows 2000 Terminal Server for Newmarket International Application Serving.

Requirements

The following CDs are required to complete the setup and configuration of a Windows Terminal:

  • NI_TS
  • Customer must procure proper Client Access Licensing. This must be purchased for both Microsoft Terminal Services and all products loaded on the servers at the time of install. Newmarket International does not sell these licenses.
  • Customer must also procure and supply MetaFrame media. You will need the XP1.0 media and the ICA Clients

Assumptions

Database or Application server is installed and the NGS share is available.

Terminal Server is setup as a member in an NT 4.0 or Active Directory.

Installer is familiar with installing the Terminal Server/Services operating system.

Installing MetaFrame XP 1.0 FR2

  1. After changing to install mode. Put in the MetaFrame media and browse to ‘autorun.exe’.
  2. Choose Install or update MetaFrame.
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  1. Choose MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2.
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  1. Click Next.
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  1. Click I agree through the license agreement.
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  1. Choose the MetaFrame version and click ‘Next’
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  1. Select the product type. ‘Retail’ should be correct for most installs. Click ‘Next’.
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  1. Select which components you want to install. Just take the defaults and click ‘Next’.
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  1. Select the product being installed as the Farm name (ie, NISelect, NIProfessional etc.).
  2. Under Data Store, select “Use a local database (Microsoft Access) on this server.
  3. Use Default Zone Name should be selected.
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  1. Use the account you are installing MetaFrame XP with. This will be changed later.
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  1. Select ‘Allow shadowing of ICA sessions on the server’ leaving the check boxes not checked
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  1. Change the default Citrix XML Service port to ‘8080’ and click ‘Next’.
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  1. Click ‘Finish’
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  1. Go get coffee.
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  1. Choose to launch the ICA Client Distribution wizard and uncheck ‘View the Readme file’
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  1. To update the Client Distribution you will need the ‘Client Update’ CD or need to browse to a directory share with the Client Update software.
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  1. Select the appropriate location for the Client Distribution.
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  1. Select Typical and click ‘Next’.
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  1. Get another coffee.
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  1. Click ‘Finish’.
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  1. Restart the system.
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Adding Post Service Pack 2 Hotfixes

Add the Following Hotfixes

XE102W003
XE102W005
XE102W012
XE102W015
XE102W022 (For Xpe ONLY)

Configuring MetaFrame XP 1.0

  1. Delete unnecessary connections where possible leaving only ICA-TCP.
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  1. Double-Click the ICA-TCP connection to bring up the Edit Connection window. You will need to edit properties in the ‘Advanced’, ‘ICA Settings’ and ‘Client Settings’
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  1. In ‘ICA Settings’ change the Client Audio Quality to ‘Low’.
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  1. In ‘Client Settings’ make sure ‘inherit user config’ and ‘By default, connect only the client’s main printer’.
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  1. In ‘Advanced Connection Settings’ change the settings to reflect the image on the right for ‘Timeout settings’, ‘On a broken or timed-out connection’, ‘Reconnect sessions disconnected’ and ‘Shadowing’.
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Configuring MetaFrame Administrators

Specify additional administrative users by adding them through the CMC ‘Citrix Administrators’ utility. The local and domain admins should have administrative rights to the CMC. Check with local IT if applicable. /
Granular access can be given to utilities in the CMC in FR2. By default ‘Full Administration’ will be given to administrators only unless otherwise specified. /

Configuring Additional Servers to Participate in an Existing Farm

During setup of MetaFrame 1.0 FR2 when you reach the screen to create a new farm or join existing you will need to select the join existing farm if this server will participate in an already existing MetaFrame farm. /
You will need to connect the server to the server where the IMA data store resides. By default the IMA service uses port 2512 to communicate. /

Publishing Applications in MetaFrame XP

Using the ‘Applications’ utility in the CMC enter a name and description for the application that you will publish. /
Specify what to publish. If desktop is specified no command line or working directory will need to be specified. /
Browse or type in the command line for the working directory. /
Folders are useful in larger implementations for logical grouping of applications and will not be used for most deployments. Do not select boxes to add shortcuts. /
Choose 800X600, 16 colors and ‘maximize application at startup’. /
Choose to ‘start without waiting for printers’ and disable audio. /
For Newmarket applications choose to allow only one instance of the application for each user. /
Specify servers. If all will be used for load balancing purposes ‘Add all’ will add all currently installed servers in the farm. /
Specify what users to publish the application for. All applications should be published to a specific group. /
Choose finish at the ‘file type association’ screen. /

Configuring Load Balancing for NI Installations

Load Balancing is configured using the load evaluators in XP. There are two load evaluators when Xpa or Xpe is setup. They are Default and Advanced. These cannot be changed although more evaluators can be added based on specific criteria. Although this is much more robust than 1.8 the defaults will not need to be changed for most NI farms.
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