The Ultimate Citrix Install Guide
 
1 - Preface
2 - Project Management
3 - Analysis Phase
4 - Design Phase
5 - Implementation Phase
  1. Implementation Overview

2. Prepare the Network Environment

3. Add Users to a Terminal Services Environment

4. 3rd Party IMA Data Store Installation Instructions

5. Install Operating System

6. Install MetaFrame XP

7. Tweak Windows 2000 / MetaFrame XP

8. Rapid Server Deployment

9. How to create a Zone & Move MetaFrame Servers to it

10. ICA Client Update Configuration Utility

11. How to Setup Automatic Reboot for MetaFrame Servers

12. Client Drive Mapping

13. Install Applications

14. Publishing through the Citrix Management Console

15. How to Build a Stable Printing Environment

16. NFuse Integration

17. Citrix Web Console (CWC)

18. How to Secure a Internet Information Services (IIS) Server

19. Citrix Management Console (CMC)

20. Microsoft Terminal Services License Server

21. Implement System Policies

22. Implementation - Checkpoint
6 - Readiness Phase
7 - Rollout Phase
8 - Appendix

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Methodology in a Box 1.0 Beta for Citrix MetaFrame
Feature Realease 1
 

Welcome to Methodology in a Box 1.0 Beta (MIAB) - The Ultimate Citrix Install Guide.  MIAB 1.0 Beta is free Citrix guide and award winning project oriented deployment citrix pdf.   MIAB was designed to be a culmination of Citrix tutorials to teach you everything you need to assist with your Citrix MetaFrame XP Feature Release 1 with NFuse 1.61 installations.

 

Methodology in a Box is broken down in to five chapters; analysis, design, implementation, readiness and rollout. I wrote this guide to act as a starting point in teaching basic project management to help the technicians and engineers who find themselves being required to deploy Citrix technologies.  In this free Citrix guide you will learn the following:

  • How to analyze and design a Citrix FR1 environment
  • Prepare the network environment for a Citrix installation
  • How to add user for a terminals services environment
  • 3rd Party IMA data store installation instructions
  • Install Operating System
  • Install MetaFrame XP
  • Tweak Windows 2000 and MetaFrame XP
  • Rapid Server Deployment
  • How to create a Zone and move MetaFrame servers to it
  • ICA Client Update Configuration Utility
  • How to setup automatic reboot for MetaFrame servers
  • Client Drive Mappings
  • Install Applications
  • Publishing Applications through the Citrix Management Console (CMC)
  • How to build a stable printing environment
  • NFuse Integration
  • How to install the Citrix Web Console
  • How to secure an Internet Information Services (IIS) server
  • Citrix Management Console (CMC)
  • Microsoft Terminal Services License Server
  • Implement System Policies
  • How to test your Citrix environment
  • How to implement change management policies and procedures
  • How to perform end-user and administrator Citrix training

 

I have also tried to write this document in the same framework that your project will follow and throughout this document, I have presented real world examples from my personal experiences in deploying MetaFrame XP and other software packages.  To accomplish this I have created a fictitious consulting firm (D&D Consulting) and a customer called DABCC.COM to add a sense of realism to the examples. I have also documented systematic instructions on everything needed for a successful Citrix MetaFrame FR1.  My intentions are to make this a blueprint for a successful deployment and from the feedback I'm receiving we are accomplishing just that.

 

In this project, you will find a lot of information but it is far from everything one would need and it is not even meant to be. It is meant to be a starting point, a process change to get you excited about the art of Project Management the way I am.  With it, I truly believe it can take you and your organization to the next level.   Over the past four years I have received a lot of feedback and my favorites are the ones where the consultants and business owners has written to me to explain how they where able to take this methodology and mold it in with their own to make something bigger than the sum of its parts.  That is the goal of this document.

 

Thank you and enjoy, 

 

Douglas A. Brown
President and Chief Technology Officer
Microsoft MVP, Windows Server
DABCC, Inc.
dbrown@dabcc.com
www.dabcc.com


Methodology in a Box 1.0 Beta - Project Files

In keeping with the name and vision of this project, I have created / gathered a slew of document example, templates and utilities.  The following is a list and description of the files located in Methodology in a Box 1.0 Beta.  (MIAB1.0Beta.ZIP)

Root Folder

Path \ Filename

Description

\MIAB2.1.pdf - (500 plus pages) - master document explaining a total project lifespan

Master document explaining a total project lifespan

\Readme.htm

This file and a little more 

Examples Folder

Path \ Filename

Description

\Examples\EXAMPLE - Statement of Work.doc

Example of a Statement of Work.

\Examples\EXAMPLE - Infrastructure Assessment.doc

Example of a basic Infrastructure Assessment

\Examples\EXAMPLE - Analysis Phase Deliverable.doc 

Example of an Analysis Phase Deliverable.

\Examples\EXAMPLE - Design Phase Deliverable.doc 

Example of a Design Phase Deliverable.

\Examples\EXAMPLE - Pilot User Welcome Letter.doc

Example of a Pilot User Welcome Letter

\Examples\EXAMPLE - End-user Welcome Letter.doc 

Example of a End-user Welcome Letter

Examples\EXAMPLE - End-user Log In Document.doc

Example of a End-user Log In Document

Templates Folder

Path \ Filename

Description

\Templates\TEMPLATE - Statement of Work.dot

Microsoft Word Template file for a Statement of Work deliverable.

\Templates\EXAMPLE - Infrastructure Assessment.dot

Microsoft Word template file for an Infrastructure Assessment deliverable.

\Templates\TEMPLATE - Analysis Phase Deliverable.dot

Microsoft Word template file for an Analysis Phase deliverable.

\Templates\TEMPLATE - Design Phase Deliverable.dot

Microsoft Word template file for a Design Phase deliverable.

\Templates\TEMPLATE - Pilot Application Test Sheet.dot

Microsoft Word template file for a Pilot Application Test Sheet

\Templates\TEMPLATE - Test User Feedback Form.dot

Microsoft Word template file for a Test User Feedback Form

Templates\TEMPLATE - Help Desk Feedback Form.dot

Microsoft Word template file for a Help Desk Feedback Form

Presentations Folder

Path \ Filename

Description

Presentations\ Project Oriented Deployment - DAB.ppt

Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on MetaFrame Project Oriented Deployment

Utilities Folder

Path \ Filename

Description

\Utilities\GPO Documentation Template.xls

Group Policy Object (GPO) documentation template for documenting the GPO's that will be used in the MetaFrame environment

\Utilities\hidecalc.zip

Awesome Utility that create administrative templates, .reg files and or Kixtart script files to hide drives

\Utilities\iislockd.exe

Microsoft IIS Lockdown Utility version 2.1

\Utilities\MIAB.adm

Methodology in a Box - Administrative  Template

\Utilities\Reboot Script.zip

Reboot Script and required SLEEP.EXE

\Utilities\Win2k Reg Files.zip

All the registry files documented in the tweak MetaFrame section of this document

\Utilities\WTSuprn.txt

Example Printer Compatibility Mapping file

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