MetaFrame Presentation Server Policy Management


The creation and management of MetaFrame policies remains unchanged from MPS 3.0 and the information provided in Chapter 7. Citrix has made some minor changes in the order in which policy folders appear, however, and provided some additional policies that we review in Table 16.1.

Table 16.1. MPS 4.0 Policy Additions

Policy Path

Settings

Comments

Bandwidth/Session Limits/TWAIN Redirection

Limit (Kb/sec)

This policy is added as part of the new support for mapping TWAIN client devices. The maximum bandwidth available to clients for TWAIN redirection is provided here.

Client Devices/Resources/ Drives /Optimize/Asynchronous writes

Turn on asynchronous writes to client disks.

This policy is designed to improve drive access and folder browsing through client-mapped drives. This policy enables the asynchronous writing of data from server to client drive but should be enabled only when users are accessing over a high-bandwidth connection and experiencing high latency. Citrix recommends enabling this option only when users will be able to restart any file transfer that is interrupted due to a failure.

Client Devices/Resources/Ports/Turn off COM ports

Turn off client COM ports.

This feature is not new, but disabling COM port mapping prevents USB-connected PDAs on the client device from being accessible in MetaFrame.

Client Devices/Resources/PDA Devices/Turn on virtual COM port mapping

Turn on virtual COM port mapping.

Enabling this option allows USB-connected PDA client devices to synchronize via Microsoft ActiveSync with software on the MetaFrame server. Virtual COM port mapping also requires that the Turn Off Client COM ports policy be "Not Configured" or "Disabled."

Client Devices/Resources/Other/Configure TWAIN Redirection

Do not allow TWAIN redirection.

Allow TWAIN redirection.

When this policy is enabled, you can configure whether to enable lossy compression. This feature increases performance of the image transmission by reducing the quality of the image. Citrix does not recommend using this setting with optical character recognition (OCR) software.

Printing

 

This entire node is new in MPS 4.0. The printer settings previously found under Resources in MPS 3.0 have been moved here along with a few new settings.

Printing/Client Printers/Legacy Client Printers

Create dynamic session-private printers.

Create old-style client printers.

The creation of session-private printers generates client-mapped printers that are private to each user session and have a naming standard similar to client printers in Terminal Services alone. The format is < name > from <client> in session x . Old-style client printers can be shared between sessions; they use the old Citrix client printer naming standard.

Printing/Client Printers/Printer property retention

Printer properties should be:

Saved on the Client only.

Retained in user profile only.

Held in profile only if not saved on client.

This policy controls how user printer settings are retained.

Saved on the Client Only is suitable for situations in which users have mandatory profiles or roaming profiles that are not saved. This setting is supported only on MPS 4.0 or later and the Citrix client 9.0 or later. Retained in User Profile Only preserves the settings in the Terminal Server profile. There is no attempt to write information to the client. This option is supported with MPS 3.0 and the MPS client 8.x or earlier. Held in Profile Only If Not Saved on Client is enabled by default, and it instructs the MPS server to try to maintain client settings if supported; otherwise , they are retained on the server. This setting is compatible with MPS 3.0 and the MPS client 8.x or earlier.

Printing/Drivers/Native printer driver auto-install

Install Windows native drivers as needed.

Do not automatically install drivers.

By enabling this option and setting Install Windows Native Drivers as Needed, you instruct the MetaFrame Server to install native Windows drivers if necessary when a client connects with a new client-mapped printer. Only drivers present in the driver.cab file are installed. This CAB file contains those printer drivers signed by Microsoft as being compatible. When Do Not Automatically Install Drivers is selected, a native driver is not available for a client printer unless explicitly installed by an administrator. Citrix warns that a large number of native drivers could be installed if users are connecting from a variety of different clients with different printers available.

Printing/Drivers/Universal driver

Use universal driver only if requested driver is unavailable.

Use only printer model specific drivers.

Use universal driver only.

This rule replaces the MPS 3.0 rule in Resources/Local Printers/Drivers. The functionality is identical.

Printing/Session printers

Network printers to connect at logon.

Choose client's default printer.

Do not adjust the user's default printer.

Set default printer to the client's main printer.

This policy combines the MPS 3.0 policy found in Resources/Local Printers/Default with the Network Printer Auto-Creation feature that was available in the Printer Management node. Within this policy, you can select any number of available network printers in the farm and assign them to the policy recipients. You also have the option of whether to remap the default printer to match the local client default printer.

User Workspace

 

Aside from moving the option for MetaFrame Password Manager to the bottom of the list, all policies under here remain unchanged.




Citrix CCA MetaFrame Presentation Server 3. 0 and 4. 0 Exam CramT (Exams 223 and 256)
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