Chapter 7. MetaFrame Presentation Server Policy Management

7. MetaFrame Presentation Server Policy Management

Terms you'll need to understand:

• MetaFrame user policy

• Policy rule

• Policy filter

• Allow and Deny filter properties

• Policy priorities

• Resultant policy

Concepts and techniques you'll need to master:

• Enforcing desired configuration through user policies

• Determining the current policies in effect based on the given criteria

• Understanding what options can be managed via MetaFrame user policies

• Searching for policies matching given criteria and calculating the resultant policies in effect

This chapter focuses on how you can use MetaFrame user policies as a means of defining different user configurations that are enforced based on criteria such as client name , IP address, or username. Part of the core MetaFrame Presentation Server software, MetaFrame user policies were first introduced with Feature Release 2 for MetaFrame XP Presentation Server. In addition to the core functionality of user policies, this chapter also looks at new features introduced with MPS 3.0.