10. ICA Client Update Configuration Utility

Throughout this document, I have tried to express the need to achieve a high user perception with limited administration and the desire to be proactive rather the reactive.  The ICA Client Update Configuration Utility is a feature that enables you to schedule the download and installation of the latest ICA Client software from MetaFrame XP servers to client devices. The ICA Client Distribution wizard places copies of ICA Clients in the database used by Client. 

In order to make sure that you end-users have the latest clients you will want to utilize the ICA Client Update Configuration Utility.  The following sections describe how to mange ICA Clients through the ICA Client Update Configuration Utility.

10. 1.    How to Update the ICA Client Database with a ICA Client Images

In order to prevent the administrator from being required to update the ICA client on all servers, Citrix has provided a mechanism for a single database for all the MetaFrame servers.   This is also true for the first server build. 

1.        Download the latest ICA Client CD from the Citrix download page.

2.        Extract the contents of the ICA Client CD to a folder on your C: drive.

3.        Click Start  Programs  Citrix  MetaFrameXP  ICA Client Distribution Wizard

4.        Click Next

5.        Select the location of the ICA Client CD image and click Next

6.        Select the Typical radio button and click Next

11.    Click Finish

You have now successfully updated the ICA Client database with the latest clients.  Now you will want to configure the ICA Clients that you will be updating and disable the rest.

10. 2.    How to Update a Single ICA Client

1.       Download the latest ICA client from http://www.citrix.com/download.

2.       Extract the ICA Client to you local C: drive 

3.       Click Start  Programs  Citrix  MetaFrameXP  ICA Client Update Configuration

4.       Click Client  New

5.       Browse and select the update.ini file from the ICA client you extracted in step 2.  Click Next

6.       Select the desired configurations and click Next.

7.       Click Next.

8.       Click the Enabled check box in order to enable the new ICA Client software.  Click Finish

10. 3.    How to Configure the ICA Client Update Configuration Database

1.       Right Click on the ICA Client that you want to configure

2.       Check or Uncheck the Update to this version checkbox in order to enable the ICA clients.

3.       If you will not be supporting a particular client version then I suggest you disable it to cut down on the amount of clients that will be parsed during the logon process.  This will speed up the login process.

4.       The Update Options tab gives you the ability to specify how the ICA client will be installed.  Select the desired configuration and click OK.

10. 4.    How to Move the ICA Client Update Configuration Database

Now that you have added the latest ICA clients and have configured which clients are active and how they will be updated, you are ready to move the ICA Client database to a central location and configure all MetaFrame servers to pull from the central database.

1.       Browse to the ICA ClientDB folder.  (by default it is located on C:\WINNT\ICA\CLIENTDB)

2.       Select all the files and folders and right click to select Copy.

3.       Browse to the ICAClientDB share you created earlier in the project.  Right click on a blank area and click Paste.

4.       Open the ICA Client Update Configuration Utility and from the menu bar click Database  Open

5.       In the File name test box enter the UNC path to the ICA ClientDB folder you copyied the ICA Client files to in step 3.

6.       Click Database   Click Set Default

7.       Select the Set as Default Database on Local Machine checkbox and select all MetaFrame servers and click OK.

8.       You have now copied the the ICA client database to a centrally stored location.